ARES - Repository of gateways and access conditions

The repository of gateways and access conditions resumes access to Master's and bachelor's studies of specialization. A gateway allows the student who has successfully completed a first cycle of the short type (professionalizing bachelor) to access the second cycle studies of the long type (master in high school or university) or the studies of bachelor of specialization, possibly subject to the follow-up of additional credits.

• Definition
Bachelor's degree: Academic grade that is obtained after successful completion of undergraduate studies of at least 180 credits. The "professionalizing" bachelor makes it possible to directly exercise a profession after obtaining it, while the "transitional" bachelor prepares for the next cycle (the master).
Cycle: Studies leading to an academic degree. Higher education is organised in three cycles:

the first cycle, which leads to the degree of bachelor the second cycle, which leads to the degree of master the third cycle, which leads to the degree of doctor
Master: Academic grade of level 7 attesting to graduate studies of at least 60 credits and, if they pursue a particular purpose, of at least 120 credits.
Gateway: Academic process admitting a student to another course of study.
Type: Characteristic of higher education linked to its professional purpose, pedagogical methods and number of cycles of initial training. Short-term higher education comprises only one cycle, long-term higher education comprises two basic cycles.

• Granularity
The combination of the Bachelor Studies and Master Studies fields identifies each line of the dataset in a unique way.
Log changes
2021-10-05 : Updating the table structure, metadata and dictionary
2022-12-12 : Updating the "geographic coverage" metadata (Correction: Error "zero or more than one hit")
2022-12-14 : Updating data and correcting shells in the data dictionary
2024-12-11 : Updating data and merging sections 114, 111 and 107