The number of students admitted for studies in the 1st year is
established on the following criteria:
a) the percentage of graduates employed in the respective specialty;
b) the rate of employment in the previous year;
c) the schooling capacity;
d) the possibility to provide adequate social conditions;
e) the prognostication of the necessary in the labour market;
The above mentioned criteria are enumerated in the order of their
importance.
The most significant index of the value and realistic orientation of an
institution, faculty or specialization, is the number of graduates that have been able to
get themselves employed.
The second criterion is in fact the feed back of the first one, with a
certain delay (of a year or two ). The specializations that don't offer jobs after
graduation will be the less requested for. The double specialization granted to our
students allows them to better adapt themselves to the requirements of the labour market
and to the growing exigencies of the shipping activities.
However, there are circumstances when, for reasons beyond the
educational interest and sometimes even against the students' interest, we mention high
schooling figures for some specializations.
Exceptionally, we maintain a minimum number of places for some
specializations of great importance for which, at the moment, there is no request
The schooling capacity refers to the possibility to provide enough
lecture and seminar halls, to the proper endowment of labs, to the possibility of
training, and to the covering of curriculum with competent teachers.
The social needs of the students mustn't also be neglected. The effect
of unsatisfactory social conditions may reflect upon the quality of the graduates'
training, and, implicitly, upon the prestige of the institute.
The 5th criterion is also the last as importance. In my opinion, no one
is able to foretell the necessary for the labour market from now on to the year 2000.
