[This section is currently being modified. Please contact your local Campus France agency for details about the application selection procedure.]
Student Application for admission in the PANGEA programme is entitled for students holding a Bachelor in Earth Sciences or equivalent education in the field of Natural Sciences or Biology (provided a sufficient number of Earth Sciences courses are completed). Students from all over the world are welcome to join the programme.
A TWO-STEP SELECTION PROCEDURE
1) Administrative checking and validation
Following the closure of the call for applications, all applications are checked in order to remove incomplete applications (required information is missing or misfiled; compulsory document(s) not provided) and incorrectly completed applications (documents or information provided not in English, illegible documents, unreadable files, etc.).
2) Evaluation and ranking of valid applications
Two members of two different institutions of the consortium board that are not involved in the relative selected track will evaluate all valid applications (i.e. passing evaluation step 1) independently.
- Eligibility of previous studies
Reviewers first check eligibility of the applicant’s previous studies (marked 0, fail; or 1, pass). Applications receiving divergent marks on this mandatory criterion will be sent to a third reviewer.
Applications receiving two 0 will be dismissed.
- Evaluation and ranking of eligible applications
Evaluation and ranking of all valid applications are based on academic merit and excellence, and determined according to the following criteria (the percentages in brackets represent the weight of each criterion):
The reviewer will mark each selection criterion on a scale from 1 (very poor) to 10 (outstanding).
The final scores of the applications are automatically generated based on % weights indicated above, then the average is calculated.
An application receiving significantly divergent final marks (differing by at least 2 points over 10) will be sent to a third reviewer in the consortium, and its final score will be calculated based on the 3 evaluations.
An interview could be organised after the written evaluation is finished. It will help test the English skills of the student as well as the motivation.
The generated ranking is used by the Academic Board to establish a selection of approximately 50 applicants. To ensure academic excellence of enrolled students, the Academic board can decide to apply a threshold to the final application grade, based on average scores obtained (generally 5/10) even if this implies that the maximum size of the cohort will not be reached.
COMMUNICATION OF THE SELECTION RESULTS
After each call for applications and selection procedure, applicants are informed individually whether or not they have been selected, via the French national application platforms, Etudes en France (EEF) or MonMaster.
It is the student’s responsibility to consult the admission results calendar of these platforms. Students will also be invited to confirm their acceptance via their corresponding platform (Note: in the event of late acceptance, students risk losing their place for the academic year in which they apply).
Accepted candidates are requested to sign the Student Agreement, which sets out the track they are registering to, their rights and obligations of students during the program.
APPEAL
Students who want to appeal the decision made by the consortium must send a filled ‘Pangea appeal form’ within 7 days after receiving notification of the selection results. The Pangea coordinator will prepare an argued response, and both appeal and proposed response will be submitted to the Executive board for approval. The student will be notified of the outcome of the procedure within 14 days after his/her appeal submission. This decision of the Executive board is final and cannot be subject to any further appeals.