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Austria

At Austria 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: YYUXXXXExplanationExample: 9450234
YYAcademic Year when the number was issuedThe 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.
UOne-digit code representing the university issuing the numberE.g. 0= University Of Vienna , 5= Vienna University Of Economics And Business Administration . Some universities share a particular number for this digit.
XXXXindividual number issued in the order of enrollmentIn the example, the student holding the number was the 234th student enrolling at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Admistration in the academic year of 1994/95.



United Kingdom


HESA, the Higher Education Statistics Agency , assigns a unique number to students. Many universities have their own system of student numbering.


Cambridge University


All members of faculty are issued a CRSID, which represents their initials, plus a number representing when they were assigned their CRSID in relation to others with similar initials.

EG: The first Alfred Brown Cockfoster is liable to be assigned abc1, while if next year Anna Budgens Cheapmoost comes along, she will become abc2 at the least, and quite possibly abc10 or abc7, or similar.