Paul and Anne are both students in a bachelor's programme at the University of Vienna. Paul is in his fifth semester and has successfully completed all modules of the first four semesters. Anne is still at the beginning of her studies. Therefore, she has only completed some modules of the first semester.

Both want to register for a course with continuous assessment allocated to a module that is intended to be completed in the fifth semester of their degree programme. Paul wants to register because he needs the course to be able to complete his degree programme. Anne, on the other hand, wants to attend the course already now because she finds its contents interesting.

If there are not enough places in the course for all students who registered, it would be more important for Paul to get a place. Otherwise, he would have to wait a semester, which would extend the duration of his studies. Anne actually wants to register too early for the course. She could also complete the course in one of the following semesters without having to extend the duration of her studies.

Here, the degree of completion takes effect: Since Paul has successfully completed all the previous modules, he complies with the recommended path of study to 100 %. Therefore, his degree of completion is 100 %. Anne wants to attend a course from the fifth semester in an earlier semester, which means that she deviates from the recommended path. Her degree of completion is, therefore, less than 100 %. As a result, Paul would be given preference over Anne in the allocation of places.

You can check the degree of completion of your path of study at any time in u:space (provided your studies have already been released for the recommended path of study):

• in the record of examinations under Studies — Record of examinations
• in the semester planner under Courses — Semester planner (only available for a selection of studies)
• when registering for a course with continuous assessment

Of course. The recommended path of study is not an exclusion criterion in the allocation of places, but rather a possibility to rank registrations according to their urgency. If a sufficient number of places is available in a course, you will also get a place if your degree of completion is less than 100 %. However, your chances to get a place increase with your degree of completion.

Of course, we always aim at providing sufficient places in courses and exams. However, in exceptional cases it may be that there are fewer places in a course with continuous assessment than students with a degree of completion of 100 % who want to register for it. Therefore, with a degree of completion of 100 %, your chances of getting a place are very high, but it is no absolute guarantee. In the exceptional cases mentioned above, some students may not get a place in a course even though their degree of completion is 100 %.

No. The prerequisites of individual modules as stipulated in the curriculum are binding. They are not a recommendation like the path of study is. This means that you can only complete a module if you fulfil the prerequisites as stipulated in the curriculum, even if your degree of completion is 100 %.

The percentages indicate the extent to which you have completed the courses from the previous semesters that are provided in the recommended path of study. From the 2nd semester onwards, courses always have a defined predecessor. If you have completed all predecessors, 100% will be displayed for the subsequent courses. If you have only completed parts of the courses planned for you in the recommended path of study, a lower percentage value is displayed, which is calculated individually on the basis of recommended path of study.