Student number
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A student number is the number assigned to a student
upon first entering or registering with an educational institution and is used to identify the student in lieu of a name
for grade
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n public universities, students are assigned a unique seven-digit ID number known as Matrikelnummer when they enrol in any course of studies for the first time. A student retains his or her number when he or she enrolls in a different subject or switches the university altogether. Even when someone is not enrolled in any study program for many years, he or she retains it.
The Matrikelnummer has the following format:
, assigns a unique number to students. Many universities have their own system of student numbering.
All students and staff are also issued with a CRSID, which consists of their initials, plus a number representing when they were assigned their CRSID in relation to others with similar initials. Older CRSIDs were five characters long, which was extended to seven briefly in the early 1990s, and later reduced to five again. The digit 1 is rarely used, except for Fellows or other high-ranking academic members of staff. For example, the first Alfred Brown Cockfoster is liable to be assigned abc20, while if next year Anna Budgens Cheapmoost comes along, she will become abc22 at the least, and quite possibly abc30, or similar. This system can accommodate up to 4 initials followed by one number, however, if a member has 5 (or more) initials, their initials are usually followed by a single number to give a 6 character (or more) long CRSID, e.g. abcde2, and so on. An example of the older, longer CRSID is abc1001.
All students and staff of the University and Colleges are also eligible http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/misd/univcard/eligibility/ to receive or apply for a University Cardhttp://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/misd/univcard/whatis/, which has a barcode and associated code of capital letters and numbers on the back which identifies the holder, e.g. AB3CD, as well as another code consisting of lower-case letters and numbers, e.g. ab1006w/ 01.
Student
A student is a learner, or someone who attends an educational institution. In some nations, the English term is reserved for those who attend university, while a schoolchild under the age of eighteen is called a pupil in English...
upon first entering or registering with an educational institution and is used to identify the student in lieu of a name
Name
A name is a word or term used for identification. Names can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context. A personal name identifies a specific unique and identifiable individual person, and may or may not include a middle name...
for grade
Grade (education)
Grades are standardized measurements of varying levels of comprehension within a subject area. Grades can be assigned in letters , as a range , as a number out of a possible total , as descriptors , in percentages, or, as is common in some post-secondary...
s, essay
Essay
An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition...
s, project
Project
A project in business and science is typically defined as a collaborative enterprise, frequently involving research or design, that is carefully planned to achieve a particular aim. Projects can be further defined as temporary rather than permanent social systems that are constituted by teams...
s, exams and official documents.
Austria
At AustriaAustria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n public universities, students are assigned a unique seven-digit ID number known as Matrikelnummer when they enrol in any course of studies for the first time. A student retains his or her number when he or she enrolls in a different subject or switches the university altogether. Even when someone is not enrolled in any study program for many years, he or she retains it.
The Matrikelnummer has the following format:
| Format: YYUXXXX | Explanation | Example: 9450234 |
|---|---|---|
| YY | Academic Year when the number was issued | The two digits refers to the academic year, here 1994/95. Students enrolling in Winter 1994/95 and Summer 1995 were assigned numbers beginning with 94. |
| U | One-digit code representing the university issuing the number | E.g. 0=University of Vienna University of Vienna The University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world... , 5=Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Some universities share a particular number for this digit. |
| XXXX | individual number issued in the order of enrollment | In the example, the student holding the number was the 234th student enrolling at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration in the academic year of 1994/95. |
United Kingdom
HESA, the Higher Education Statistics AgencyHigher Education Statistics Agency
The Higher Education Statistics Agency is the official agency for the collection, analysis and dissemination of quantitative information about higher education in the United Kingdom....
, assigns a unique number to students. Many universities have their own system of student numbering.
University of Cambridge
All students are assigned a University Student Number (USN), e.g. 200112345 http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/misd/univcard/howtoget/photo_req.html.All students and staff are also issued with a CRSID, which consists of their initials, plus a number representing when they were assigned their CRSID in relation to others with similar initials. Older CRSIDs were five characters long, which was extended to seven briefly in the early 1990s, and later reduced to five again. The digit 1 is rarely used, except for Fellows or other high-ranking academic members of staff. For example, the first Alfred Brown Cockfoster is liable to be assigned abc20, while if next year Anna Budgens Cheapmoost comes along, she will become abc22 at the least, and quite possibly abc30, or similar. This system can accommodate up to 4 initials followed by one number, however, if a member has 5 (or more) initials, their initials are usually followed by a single number to give a 6 character (or more) long CRSID, e.g. abcde2, and so on. An example of the older, longer CRSID is abc1001.
All students and staff of the University and Colleges are also eligible http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/misd/univcard/eligibility/ to receive or apply for a University Cardhttp://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/misd/univcard/whatis/, which has a barcode and associated code of capital letters and numbers on the back which identifies the holder, e.g. AB3CD, as well as another code consisting of lower-case letters and numbers, e.g. ab1006w/ 01.