The number of university courses with a fixed number of places has doubled over the past five years, news agency ANP reports on Wednesday.

This year 37,500 prospective students will take part in a lottery in the hope they are picked to take the course of their choice, ANP said, quoting figures from the student finance group DUO.
And last university year, 12,500 students were forced to take a different course because their names were not drawn out of the hat.
Medicine, psychology, law and business studies are most likely to have a fixed number of places.
Most Dutch universities do not select students on the basis of exam results.