The Department accepts each year a maximum of 70 students for undergraduate studies, depending on its teaching resources. Individuals wishing to study sociology as undergraduates in the Department are required to have completed successfully their lycee/high school education or its equivalent and to have obtained enough points from the university entrance exam. This exam is organized centrally and annually by the Student Selection and Placement Centre, and the students are placed by the same centre into departments according to their choice of university and the rank order of the points they have obtained. The undergraduate students are not required to take any other exam before registering for study in the Department. In order to graduate, the students should earn from their studies a minimum of 128 credits in accordance with the principles explained in the following section on the Structure of the Programme.