Mon Master, open as of 2023, is a one-stop desk grouping all offers of Master study plans where to submit applications. The platform is open to all students, but only specific international students are affected.
The monmaster.gouv.fr platform is similar to the Parcoursup mechanism, the national platform for preregistration in first year of higher education in France. The monmaster.gouv.fr platform is, as its name indicates, only for registrations in master course. It is designed for all French students, and international students in designated cases.
A platform as source of information on Master courses
As explained in the website’s FAQ, applicants of foreign nationality (excluding nationals of the European Economic Area, Andorra, Switzerland or Monaco) whose country of residence is covered by the Études en France system do not have to apply via monmaster.gouv.fr. They must, depending on the course, apply via the Études en France platform or directly with the institution.
Australia is not part of the Études en France platform so students must apply directly to the Masters program, and use Mon Master for information and advice.
For international students, monmaster.gouv.fr will allow them to consult all the national master’s degrees offered in France by accredited higher education institutions. The platform is equipped with an engine that allows a multi-criteria academic search: subject (name of the course), type of course, type of licence obtained, and also a search according to geographical criteria. An interactive map can even be used to locate the desired establishments in France.
A platform open to specific international students
In addition to this general information service, the platform allows students to apply directly for the selected masters programmes (15 masters programmes in traditional training and 15 Master programmes in sandwich training). But this procedure, which concerns all French students, only concerns specific international students.
The site’s FAQ provides more information on the type of foreign applicants who can apply via monmaster.gouv.fr. The following are included:
- applicants from a country in the European Economic Area (including Andorra, Switzerland and Monaco) can apply on the platform;
- applicants of another nationality who reside in France;
- applicants of another nationality who reside in a country of the European Economic Area (including Andorra, Switzerland and Monaco) can also apply on the platform, but they will have to “regularise their situation with the French consulate in their country of residence”. For example, the site continues, “a candidate of non-European nationality who resides in Germany may apply on the platform (if his or her diploma allows it), but must check that his or her situation allows him or her to pursue studies in France with a French consulate in Germany and, if necessary, apply for a visa for studies”.
Australian students are therefore part of the accepted cohorts to apply through Mon Master
A platform designed to facilitate access to Master programmes
For the Ministry of Higher Education, the setting up of monmaster.gouv.fr “constitutes a central element in facilitating access to 2nd cycle French higher education”.
However, the Ministry states that institutions “remain responsible for admissions”. The process of examining applications by programmes will be based, as is the case today, on “an assessment of the applicants’ plans, their motivation, their background and their grades transcripts”. Depending on the specificities of the courses, new functionalities “will allow institutions to create forms to ask additional questions to applicants”.
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