Undergraduate Teaching 2023-24

Part IIA project guide - How projects are allocated

Part IIA project guide - How projects are allocated

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Each project has a maximum capacity, due to limits on staff, space and equipment, and some projects may not run if very few students opt for them.

In the online selection page, the sets are colour-coded to guide you. Before you can submit your preferences, the software will:

  1. check that your 1st and 2nd preferences form a valid combination;
  2. tell you how many of the combinations of your 1st to 4th preferences are valid (at least 2 must work to give yourself a fair chance of obtaining your 1st to 4th preferences).

You will be prompted to reconsider if either of these checks fails.

Allocation of students to projects is a very complicated procedure. Optimisation is performed over all students and all projects, to try to ensure that all students get the best possible allocation given the various constraints. It is hence very important that you choose the order of your five projects carefully. Most students are normally allocated at least one of their first 2 preference projects, but this can not be guaranteed and the 4th or 5th choice project may well be needed – so you should consider all five of your choices seriously, as you may be assigned to any of them.

After the initial allocations are posted, any suspected mistakes or problems with these allocations should be immediately referred to the Teaching Office. The list will be confirmed shortly afte the initial posting - see the key dates.

Last updated on 28/10/2022 11:19