Parcoursup
Verified 20 October 2025 - Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Are you a high school student, apprentice or reorientation student and want to enroll in higher education? For this, you must use the platform Parcoursup. The procedure is based on a calendar during which you must inform yourself about the different courses and institutions that interest you, formulate wishes and validate the admission proposals received.
The rules of use of Parcoursup are different depending on whether you are French, European or non-European foreigner.
French or European
Parcoursup allows you to do the following:
- Obtain information on the characteristics of the training courses, in particular the expected skills, the content and organization of the courses, the amount of tuition fees, the success rates, the opportunities
- Know the institutions offering these courses and their capacity
- Get guidance on orientation
- Make wishes for further education
- Create and track the application file.
You must use Parcoursup to register in 1re year of higher education if you are in one of the following situations:
- You prepare the bin (general, technological, professional) in free candidate, in a public or private high school in France, in Europe or in a high school of the French Agency for French Education Abroad (French Agency for French Education Abroad - AEFE)
- You are preparing for a foreigners high school diploma (equivalent to the baccalaureate)
- You're in 1re year of higher education and you want reorient yourself (in the same or another institution) for the next school year
- You have the baccalaureate or a foreigners high school diploma and you want resume your studies.
Please note
You are not concerned if you are repetitive student (you must re-enroll directly in the institution) or candidate for continuing education.
The procedures are different depending on whether you are preparing the baccalaureate, a foreigners diploma or already have the baccalaureate.
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You're preparing the ferry
In a school
To register, you must submit the following:
- Your valid email address to keep up to date until the end of the procedure
- Your national student ID (INE - composed of 10 digits and 1 letter or 9 digits and 2 letters - or INAA in agricultural high school). If you are enrolled abroad (outside of the foreigner's high schools), check the box “I have no INE”.
- Your transcript in the early exams of the baccalaureate.
The tax notice of your parents or guardians is sometimes necessary. This is the case if you request a preparatory class at the grandes écoles with boarding school or wish to perform a simulation of allocation of higher education scholarship on social criteria.
As a free candidate
To register, you must submit the following:
- Your valid email address to keep up to date until the end of the procedure
- Your OCEAN number (10-digit baccalaureate registration number)
- Your transcript in the early exams of the baccalaureate.
The tax notice of your parents or guardians is sometimes necessary. This is the case if you request a preparatory class at the grandes écoles with boarding school or if you want to perform a simulation of attribution of scholarship on social criteria.
You are preparing a foreigners degree equivalent to the baccalaureate
To register, you must submit the following:
- A valid email address to keep up to date until the end of the procedure
- Information about your education and your high school diploma (school certificate, school report cards...).
At the time of your registration, check the box “I do not have an INE”.
You have a baccalaureate or equivalent foreigners degree
You are in higher education and you are reorienting yourself
To register, you must submit the following:
- Your valid email address to keep up to date until the end of the procedure
- Your national student ID (INE - consisting of 10 digits and 1 letter or 9 digits and 2 letters)
- Your baccalaureate transcript (or equivalent foreigners degree).
The tax notice of your parents or guardians is sometimes necessary. This is the case if you request a preparatory class at the grandes écoles with boarding school or if you want to perform a simulation of attribution of scholarship on social criteria.
You are resuming your studies
To register, you must submit the following:
- A valid email address to keep up to date until the end of the procedure
- Your baccalaureate transcript (or equivalent foreigners degree).
The tax notice of your parents or guardians is sometimes necessary. This is the case if you request a preparatory class at the grandes écoles with boarding school or if you want to perform a simulation of attribution of scholarship on social criteria.
At the time of your registration, check the box “I do not have an INE”.
Courses offered
You can make wishes in the following courses:
- Non-selective training: Bachelor's degree, specific pathways to health access (PASS), preparatory pathways to school teaching (PPPE)
- Selective training: CPGE: titleContent ,BTS: titleContent, PURPOSE: titleContent, DNMADE: titleContent, DCG: titleContent, schools of architecture, engineering, business and management, IFSI (nursing training institutes) and other paramedical training, EFTS (social work training institutions), Institutes of Political Studies, French National Veterinary Schools (ENV), training in the professions of culture, animation and sport, training of the Navy, the Army.
FYI
Certain establishments are not included in Parcoursup. In this case, contact the institution directly to find out about the admission procedures.
Calendar
December 17, 2025 : opening of the platform. You can consult the available training courses.
Access your higher education enrollment file
From 19 January to 12 March 2026, you can register and enter your wishes on the platform:
- Registration and creation of the file: you must enter a valid and regularly accessed email address. You can download the application Parcoursup on your mobile phone. You are assigned a file number and you choose your password. Keep them.
- Consult the characteristics of each course using a search engine.
- Seizure of vows: you must enter maximum 10 wishes without classifying them.
Access your higher education enrollment file
FYI
For training in apprenticeship, you can submit your wishes after March 12, 2025.
Some training courses are grouped under “ multiple wishes ». They make it possible to choose the desired course or courses from a set of courses that are grouped by type, specialty or mention.
A multiple wish consists of several sub-wishes: each of them corresponds to a training in a given institution. Within a multiple wish, you can select one or more formations without ordering them.
The multiple wish counts for 1 single wish. In total, you can formulate 20 subvows maximum (except 1re year common to health studies in Île-de-France and engineering and business schools).
You can make wishes throughout the territory.
Until March 12, you can delete a wish that you have not yet confirmed.
Please note
If you need a visa to study in France and that you are not preparing the baccalaureate or an equivalent diploma, the number of wishes in some formations may be limited.
Before confirming the wishes, you will have to express your preference in a dedicated section. The commission for access to higher education will then be able to find you training if none of your wishes are accepted.
FYI
A student with a disability or a debilitating health condition can fill in their situation in the section Elements related to my schooling. The higher education institution will then be able to set up a pedagogical support system or a personalized training course.
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You made your vows before March 12, 2026
- The 2e class council examines your wishes.
- Each wish is the subject of a Future sheet including for each material, your average of the two 1ers quarter or 1er semester of final year, an assessment of the teachers on your results, progress observed and aptitude for schooling in the requested training and finally the opinion of the head of school. They are then transmitted to higher education institutions electronically.
From the beginning of March, you have access to the elements of your card as you go.
From the beginning of June, you can read your entire Avenir file. - Finalization of the file accompanied by the requested documents.
- Imperative confirmation of each wish until 1er April 2026.
You didn't make your vows on time
You can no longer wish for higher education in Parcoursup.
FYI
for training in apprenticeship, you can submit your wishes after March 12, 2026.
From early April until the end of May 2026 : institutions offering training courses registered on the platform Parcoursup examine the wishes expressed.
If you change your domicile, you must declare it on Parcoursup.
FYI
In making their choice, institutions may, with your consent, take into account your participation in the strings of success.
From 2 June to 11 July 2026 : you receive proposals for admission and give your answers.
The proposals you receive may differ depending on whether you are applying for selective training or not.
Receipt of proposals
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Non-selective training
When the number of wishes received is less than the number of places available, the establishment can respond:
- Yes (proposed admission)
- Ou yes if (admission proposal): the institution conditions your registration on your acceptance to follow a personalized training course (refresher course, adapted curriculum...).
When the number of wishes received is greater than the number of places available in an establishment, the establishment can respond:
- Yes (proposed admission)
- Ou yes if (admission proposal)
- Or waiting for a seat.
Selective training
The institution can answer:
- Yes (proposed admission)
- Or waiting for a place
- Or no.
If you make all your wishes in selective training and you receive only negative answers, a higher education access commission will study your file and can make proposals to you.
Warning
A proposal in an apprenticeship training will be made to you if you are retained in the training and have signed an apprenticeship contract with an employer. As soon as you have a signed contract, you must present it to the training institution so that a proposal can be made to you.
Acceptance of proposals
As you receive proposals, you need to respond on time. The response time depends on when you received the proposal.
Warning
The 2026 calendar is not yet known
For the 2024-2025 academic year, the schedule was as follows:
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Reception between 2 and 4 June
You must respond to the proposal on June 5 at 11:59 PM at the latest.
Reception between 5 June and 8 July
You have 1 day to respond to the proposal. For example, if you receive the proposal on June 10, you can respond until June 11 at 11:59 p.m.
Warning
If you pass the general baccalaureate and you receive an admission proposal between 13 and 20 june, you must answer it on June 21 at 11:59 PM at the latest. If you pass the vocational baccalaureate and you receive an admission proposal between 24 and 27 june, you must answer it on June 28 at 11:59 PM at the latest.
If you receive only one You can accept or waive your offer of admission.
If you receive several proposals for admission, you can accept one proposal and renounce the others.
If you want to keep your wishes pending, you must prioritize them and validate your choice within a specific time frame. You must do so within 3 days of the deadline for responding to the proposal.
If you only receive pending responses, you must wait for a seat to become available.
If you receive only negative responses, the Committee on Access to Higher Education will make proposals to you.
You cannot accept proposals during the baccalaureate exams.
June 11 to early September 2026: Deposit of wishes
If you have not received a positive response to admission to a higher institution to which you have applied, you have a complementary phase.
From June 11 to early September 2026, you can make new wishes for training courses with vacant places.
Please note
candidates who have not participated in the main phase of the national pre-registration procedure and who wish to make wishes in the context of the complementary phase may register on Parcoursup until the end of July.
After the bac results, the commission for access to higher education studies your priority training wishes and makes training proposals as close as possible to your initial choices.
Until 10 September 2026: response to proposals
Institutions review the wishes and send their proposals to applicants until September 10, 2026.
As you receive proposals, you must respond within a time frame. The response time depends on when you received the proposal.
Warning
The 2026 calendar is not yet known
For the 2024-2025 academic year, the schedule was as follows:
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Reception between June 11 and August 22
You have 1 day to respond to the proposal. For example, if you receive the proposal on August 13, you can respond until August 14 at 11:59 p.m.
Reception between August 23 and September 11
You have to answer on the same day where you receive the proposal. For example, if you receive the proposal on August 28, you can respond until August 28 at 11:59 p.m.
Warning
Once you are admitted to a course, you must proceed to administrative registration in this training.
Non-European
Parcoursup allows you to do the following:
- Obtain information on the characteristics of the training courses, in particular the expected skills, the content and organization of the courses, the amount of tuition fees, the success rates, the opportunities
- Know the institutions offering these courses and their capacity
- Get guidance on orientation
- Make wishes for further education
- Create and track the application file.
You must use it to register in 1re year of higher education if you are in any of the following situations:
- You prepare the bin (general, technological, professional) in free candidate or in a school.
- You're in 1re year of higher education and you want reorient yourself (in the same or another institution) for the next school year
- You have the baccalaureate and you want resume your studies
- You don't have the baccalaureate, don't prepare it and you want to sign up for a non-university selective stream (CPGE: titleContent , BTS: titleContent...)
- You do not have the baccalaureate, do not prepare it and you want to register in a university selective course (PURPOSE: titleContent,DEUST: titleContent, FROM: titleContent...). For this, you must reside in France or in a country not covered by the procedure Studies in France.
Please note
You are not concerned if you are repetitive student (you must re-enroll directly in the institution) or candidate for continuing education.
Répondez aux questions successives et les réponses s’afficheront automatiquement
You're preparing the ferry
In a school
To register, you must submit the following:
- Your valid email address to keep up to date until the end of the procedure
- Your national student ID (INE - composed of 10 digits and 1 letter or 9 digits and 2 letters - or INAA in agricultural high school). If you are enrolled abroad (outside of the foreigner's high schools), check the box “I have no INE”.
- Your transcript in the early exams of the baccalaureate.
The tax notice of your parents or guardians is sometimes necessary. This is the case if you request a preparatory class at the grandes écoles with boarding school or wish to perform a simulation of allocation of higher education scholarship on social criteria.
As a free candidate
To register, you must submit the following:
- Your valid email address to keep up to date until the end of the procedure
- Your OCEAN number (10-digit baccalaureate registration number)
- Your transcript in the early exams of the baccalaureate.
The tax notice of your parents or guardians is sometimes necessary. This is the case if you request a preparatory class at the grandes écoles with boarding school or if you want to perform a simulation of attribution of scholarship on social criteria.
You already have the bac
You are in higher education and you are reorienting yourself
To register, you must submit the following:
- Your valid email address to keep up to date until the end of the procedure
- Your national student ID (INE - consisting of 10 digits and 1 letter or 9 digits and 2 letters)
- Your baccalaureate (or equivalent level) transcript.
The tax notice of your parents or guardians is sometimes necessary. This is the case if you request a preparatory class at the grandes écoles with boarding school or if you want to perform a simulation of attribution of scholarship on social criteria.
You are resuming your studies
To register, you must submit the following:
- Your valid email address to keep up to date until the end of the procedure
- Your baccalaureate (or equivalent level) transcript.
The tax notice of your parents or guardians is sometimes necessary. This is the case if you request a preparatory class at the grandes écoles with boarding school or if you want to perform a simulation of attribution of scholarship on social criteria.
At the time of your registration, check the box “I do not have an INE”.
You don't have the baccalaureate and don't prepare it
Reminder
You must use Parcoursup to enroll in a selective non-university course. You must also use Parcoursup to enroll in a selective university course, if you reside in France or in a country not covered by the procedure Studies in France.
To register, you must submit the following:
- A valid email address to keep up to date until the end of the procedure
- Information about your education and your high school diploma (school certificate, school report cards...).
At the time of your registration, check the box “I do not have an INE”.
Courses offered
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You have the bin or prepare it
You can make wishes in the following courses:
- Non-selective training: Bachelor's degree, specific pathways to health access (PASS), preparatory pathways to school teaching (PPPE)
- Selective training: CPGE: titleContent ,BTS: titleContent, PURPOSE: titleContent, DNMADE: titleContent, DCG: titleContent, schools of architecture, engineering, business and management, IFSI (nursing training institutes) and other paramedical training, EFTS (social work training institutions), Institutes of Political Studies, French National Veterinary Schools (ENV), training in the professions of culture, animation and sport, training of the Navy, the Army.
You don't have the baccalaureate and don't prepare it
You can make wishes in the formations non-university selective : CPGE: titleContent ,BTS: titleContent, DNMADE: titleContent, DCG: titleContent, schools of engineering, business and management, institutes of political studies...
If you reside in France or in a country outside the scope of the procedure Studies in France, you can also make wishes in the formations university selectives : PURPOSE: titleContent,DEUST: titleContent, FROM: titleContent, internal engineering schools at universities...
FYI
Certain establishments are not included in Parcoursup. In this case, contact the institution directly to find out about the admission procedures.
Calendar
December 17, 2025 : opening of the platform. You can consult the available training courses.
Access your higher education enrollment file
From 19 January to 12 March 2026, you can register and enter your wishes on the platform:
- Registration and creation of the file: you must enter a valid and regularly accessed email address. You can download the application Parcoursup on your mobile phone. You are assigned a file number and you choose your password. Keep them.
- Consult the characteristics of each course using a search engine.
- Seizure of vows: you must enter maximum 10 wishes without classifying them.
Access your higher education enrollment file
FYI
For training in learning, you can submit your wishes after March 12, 2025. Please note that applications on Parcoursup for apprenticeship training are not accessible to newcomer candidates.
Some training courses are grouped under “ multiple wishes ». They make it possible to choose the desired course or courses from a set of courses that are grouped by type, specialty or mention.
A multiple wish consists of several sub-wishes: each of them corresponds to a training in a given institution. Within a multiple wish, you can select one or more formations without ordering them.
The multiple wish counts for 1 single wish. In total, you can formulate 20 subvows maximum (except 1re year common to health studies in Île-de-France and engineering and business schools).
You can make wishes throughout the territory.
Until March 12, you can delete a wish that you have not yet confirmed.
Warning
If you need a visa to study in France and that you do not have or do not prepare the baccalaureate or an equivalent diploma, the number of wishes in some formations may be limited.
You can formulate to the maximum 3 wishes (1 wish = 1 institution) for each of these training categories: BTS: titleContent , DCG: titleContent, Upgrading in Hospitality (MANH), Diploma of Professional Specialization (DSP), Complementary Training of Local Initiative (FCIL), University Diploma labeled PAREO (DU PAREO), Certificate of Specialization (formerly complementary mention).
Before confirming the wishes, you will have to express your preference in a dedicated section. The commission for access to higher education will then be able to find you training if none of your wishes are accepted.
FYI
A student with a disability or a debilitating health condition can fill in their situation in the section Elements related to my schooling. The higher education institution will then be able to set up a pedagogical support system or a personalized training course.
Répondez aux questions successives et les réponses s’afficheront automatiquement
You made your vows before March 12, 2025
- The 2e class council examines your wishes.
- Each wish is the subject of a Future sheet including for each material, your average of the two 1ers quarter or 1er semester of final year, an assessment of the teachers on your results, progress observed and aptitude for schooling in the requested training and finally the opinion of the head of school. They are then transmitted to higher education institutions electronically.
From the beginning of March, you have access to the elements of your card as you go.
From the beginning of June, you can read your entire Avenir file. - Finalization of the file accompanied by the requested documents.
- Imperative confirmation of each wish until 1er April 2025.
You didn't make your vows on time
You can no longer wish for higher education in Parcoursup.
FYI
For training in apprenticeship, you can submit your wishes after March 12, 2025.
From early April until the end of May 2026 : institutions offering training courses registered on the platform Parcoursup examine the wishes expressed.
If you change your domicile, you must declare it on Parcoursup.
FYI
in making their choice, institutions may, with your consent, take into account your participation in the strings of success.
From 2 June to 11 July 2026 : you receive proposals for admission and give your answers.
The proposals you receive may differ depending on whether you are applying for selective training or not.
Receipt of proposals
Répondez aux questions successives et les réponses s’afficheront automatiquement
Non-selective training
When the number of wishes received is less than the number of places available, the establishment can respond:
- Yes (proposed admission)
- Ou yes if (admission proposal): the institution conditions your registration on your acceptance to follow a personalized training course (refresher course, adapted curriculum...).
When the number of wishes received is greater than the number of places available in an establishment, the establishment can respond:
- Yes (proposed admission)
- Ou yes if (admission proposal)
- Or waiting for a seat.
Selective training
The institution can answer:
- Yes (proposed admission)
- Or waiting for a place
- Or no.
If you make all your wishes in selective training and you receive only negative answers, a higher education access commission will study your file and can make proposals to you.
Warning
A proposal in an apprenticeship training will be made to you if you are retained in the training and have signed an apprenticeship contract with an employer. As soon as you have a signed contract, you must present it to the training institution so that a proposal can be made to you.
Acceptance of proposals
As you receive proposals, you need to respond on time. The response time depends on when you received the proposal.
Warning
The 2026 calendar is not yet known
For the 2024-2025 academic year, the schedule was as follows:
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Reception between 2 and 4 June
You must respond to the proposal on June 5 at 11:59 PM at the latest.
Reception between 5 June and 8 July
You have 1 day to respond to the proposal. For example, if you receive the proposal on June 10, you can respond until June 11 at 11:59 p.m.
Warning
If you pass the general baccalaureate and you receive an admission proposal between 13 and 20 june, you must answer it on June 21 at 11:59 PM at the latest. If you pass the vocational baccalaureate and you receive an admission proposal between 24 and 27 june, you must answer it on June 28 at 11:59 PM at the latest.
If you receive only one You can accept or waive your offer of admission.
If you receive several proposals for admission, you can accept one proposal and renounce the others.
If you want to keep your wishes pending, you must prioritize them and validate your choice within a specific time frame. You must do so within 3 days of the deadline for responding to the proposal.
If you only receive pending responses, you must wait for a seat to become available.
If you receive only negative responses, the Committee on Access to Higher Education will make proposals to you.
You cannot accept proposals during the baccalaureate exams.
From 11 June to early September 2026 : deposit of vows
If you have not received a positive response to admission to a higher institution to which you have applied, you have a complementary phase.
From June 11 to early September 2026, you can make new wishes for training courses with vacant places.
Please note
Candidates who have not participated in the main phase of the national pre-registration procedure and wish to make a wish in the complementary phase can register on Parcoursup until the end of July.
After the bac results, the commission for access to higher education studies your priority training wishes and makes training proposals as close as possible to your initial choices.
Until 10 September 2026 : response to proposals
Institutions review the wishes and send their proposals to applicants until September 10, 2026.
As you receive proposals, you must respond within a time frame. The response time depends on when you received the proposal.
Warning
The 2026 calendar is not yet known
For the 2024-2025 academic year, the schedule was as follows:
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Reception between June 11 and August 22
You have 1 day to respond to the proposal. For example, if you receive the proposal on August 13, you can respond until August 14 at 11:59 p.m.
Reception between August 23 and September 11
You have to answer on the same day where you receive the proposal. For example, if you receive the proposal on August 28, you can respond until August 28 at 11:59 p.m.
Warning
Once you are admitted to a course, you must proceed to administrative registration in this training.
Parcoursup: integrate the calendar of key dates into your calendar
General organization of higher education
Course of higher education
Registration in the 1st cycle
Access to higher education (general provisions)
Main phase of the national pre-registration procedure
Complementary phase of the national pre-registration procedure
Intervention by the rector of the academy (common provisions)
Procedure for admission proposal by the Academic Committee
Review procedure for persons demonstrating exceptional circumstances
Registration of students at university (common provisions)
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