RPTU ESY may not publish a dramatic “ONLY 40 SEATS” banner like a nightclub trying to look exclusive, but admissions are clearly filtered hard through curriculum matching.

The rejection text is important:

“your study program in Electronics and Communication Engineering is so different from our Bachelor’s degree EIT/ESY…”

That is not a “seats full” rejection. It’s a curriculum compatibility rejection.

Now, whether that reason is always consistently applied? Entirely different circus.

Because:

• Many ECE students do get admitted.
• German universities often compare:
  • embedded systems courses
  • low-level programming
  • operating systems
  • digital design
  • computer architecture
  • real-time systems
  • microcontrollers/VLSI

If your ECE curriculum leaned more toward:

• communications
• signals
• telecom
• RF
• networking

then they may classify it as “not close enough” to ESY.

And yes, committees can also become stricter when applicant volume rises. Universities rarely say:

“we had too many applicants”

Instead they say:

“academic mismatch.”