Analysis of candidates registered at the institutional level

Irimia Mihaela

2025-09-21

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Content

Database presentation

Description of variables

Descriptive analysis of variables

Database presentation

Warning: The dataset analyzed in this study is not an official list provided by ASE and was created based on the information available on site.

Objective: Our objective is to analyze the candidates’ admission results in ASE master’s programs across 12 faculties using data available on ASE platform.

Analyzed faculties

  • Facultatea de Business și Turism (BT)

  • Facultatea de Contabilitate și Informatică de Gestiune (CIG)

  • Facultatea de Cibernetică, Statistică și Informatică Economică (CSIE)

  • Facultatea de Drept (DA)

  • Facultatea de Economie Teoretică și Aplicată (ETA)

  • Facultatea de Finanțe, Asigurări, Bănci și Burse de Valori (FABBV)

  • Facultatea de Administrarea Afacerilor cu predare în limbi străine (FABIZ)

  • Facultatea de Management (MAN)

  • Facultatea de Marketing (MRK)

  • Facultatea de Relații Economice Internaționale (REI)

Variable description

The analysed variables are presented below:

## Rows: 4,392
## Columns: 16
## $ nr_crt           1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,…
## $ cod_candidat     4397, 1068, 1726, 1670, 1841, 2369, 2372, 1681, 1078, …
## $ proba_scrisa     NA, 84, 84, 81, 78, 78, 78, 84, 75, 75, 75, 75, 75, 72…
## $ medie_concurs    NA, 9.76, 9.76, 9.64, 9.52, 9.52, 9.52, 9.46, 9.40, 9.…
## $ medie_licenta    9.00, 10.00, 10.00, 10.00, 10.00, 10.00, 10.00, 9.50, …
## $ statut           "Standard", "Standard", "Standard", "Standard", "Stand…
## $ rezultat         "Absent", "Admis", "Admis", "Admis", "Admis", "Admis",…
## $ forma_invataman  "Absent", "Buget", "Buget", "Buget", "Buget", "Buget",…
## $ specializare     "EAM1", "EAM1", "EAM1", "EAM1", "EAM1", "EAM1", "EAM1"…
## $ program          "Economia si administrarea afacerilor agroalimentare, …
## $ facultatea       "Economie Agroalimentara si a Mediului", "Economie Agr…
## $ pob              187, 187, 187, 187, 187, 187, 187, 187, 187, 187, 187,…
## $ pot              4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, …
## $ nlb              182, 182, 182, 182, 182, 182, 182, 182, 182, 182, 182,…
## $ nlt              36, 36, 36, 36, 36, 36, 36, 36, 36, 36, 36, 36, 36, 36…
## $ ntl              218, 218, 218, 218, 218, 218, 218, 218, 218, 218, 218,…

Descriptive statistic

Main indicators of descriptive statistic
vars n mean sd median trimmed mad min max range skew kurtosis se
nr_crt 1 4392 154.249317 123.1873186 116.00 142.406944 121.573200 1.00 489 488.00 0.6979490 -0.6414385 1.8588093
cod_candidat 2 4392 2993.158925 1081.2863994 3002.50 3004.741605 1352.131200 1000.00 4827 3827.00 -0.0576121 -1.1476045 16.3158451
proba_scrisa 3 4065 61.880935 16.4470366 63.00 62.288964 17.791200 0.00 90 90.00 -0.2042250 -0.6877971 0.2579630
medie_concurs 4 4065 8.365240 0.9224258 8.44 8.404670 0.978516 4.96 10 5.04 -0.4075837 -0.2062367 0.0144678
medie_licenta 5 4392 9.166355 0.8373370 9.33 9.285048 0.993342 6.00 10 4.00 -1.1061694 0.9198413 0.0126348
statut* 6 4392 5.905965 0.6671120 6.00 6.000000 0.000000 1.00 6 5.00 -7.0555778 48.1526684 0.0100662
rezultat* 7 4392 2.084016 0.4753064 2.00 2.073136 0.000000 1.00 3 2.00 0.2467356 1.2008580 0.0071720
forma_invataman* 8 4392 2.759107 1.0034257 2.00 2.791975 1.482600 1.00 4 3.00 0.0532872 -1.3663717 0.0151410
specializare* 9 4392 16.975865 7.9674446 16.00 17.173022 10.378200 1.00 31 30.00 -0.1157721 -1.1332144 0.1202231
program* 10 4392 15.316257 8.8355986 15.00 15.290268 11.860800 1.00 31 30.00 0.0503145 -1.2167796 0.1333229
  • Our dataset contains 16 variables — 10 numeric and 6 character — and 4392 observations.
  • We can see that there are some missing values for the final admission score and admission test score variables
  • The distribution of candidates by final admission score, admission test score, and bachelor’s degree is left-skewed.
  • The range of the variable ‘bachelor’s degree’ is between 6 and 10
  • The minimum score obtained on the admission test is 0 points, and the maximum score is 100 points
  • The minimum score obtained on the final admission score is 4.96 points —

Proportion of candidates

The proportion of candidates that participated to admission exam

Proportion of absent candidates

The proportion of candidates declared absent (absent candidates) by social status

Proportion of admitted candidates

The proportion of admitted candidates by social status

Proportion of rejected candidates

The proportion of rejected candidates by social status

Proportion of candidates registered

The proportion of candidates registered by social status

Proportion of admitted candidates

The proportion of admitted candidates by social status

Proportion of rejected candidates

The proportion of rejected candidates by form of education

Proportion of absent candidates

The proportion of candidates declared absent (absent candidates) across faculties

Proportion of admitted candidates

The proportion of candidates declared admitted across faculties

Proportion of rejected candidates

The proportion of candidates declared rejected across faculties —

Checking for outliers

The number of outliers

Missing values

Proportion of missing values

The dataset does not contain any missing values. However, because it includes all registered candidates, including those who did not participate in the admission exam, the missing values that we observe are associated with these absent candidates.

Conclusions

Following the analysis, we note that 7% of candidates did not participate in the admission exam and were declared absent, while 93% participated in the exam. Most of the absent candidates were from the diaspora group (26%), followed by candidates in the standard category.

It can also be seen that most of the admitted candidates were from the standard category, followed by candidates from the diaspora and candidates with disabilities.

With regard to the number of rejected candidates, we note that the highest number was recorded among candidates from the diaspora, followed by those in the standard category and candidates with disabilities.

Overall, the standard category accounted for the largest share of participants, representing 98% of all candidates enrolled in the admission competition.

Out of the total number of registered candidates, 77% were admitted, 16% were rejected, and 7% did not participate in the competition. Among the admitted candidates, 43% secured tuition-free places, while 34% were admitted on a tuition-fee basis.

We observe that the faculty with the highest number of candidates declared absent is the faculty of business administration in foreign languages, followed by the faculty of Cybernetics, statistics and economic informatics. The faculty with the highest percentage of admitted candidates out of the total number of registered candidates is the faculty of agri-food and environmental economics (99%), followed by the faculty of public administration and management with 98%. The high percentage may indicate that, in these faculties, the available places were not fully occupied. In the case of faculties with a low percentage of admitted candidates, this suggests that competition is higher. —

References

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