The University of Ulster has said it will honour the offer it made to those students affected by an admissions email error, provided they have a full set of their examination results.
On Friday it emerged 370 students had had their unconditional offers withdrawn as a result of the mistake.
Only 180 places were available for the engineering courses at the university's Jordanstown campus.
The university says it is looking at offering about 100 extra places.
The dean of its faculty of computing and engineering, Professor Richard Millar, said that because of the decision, the university was "likely to overshoot its maximum student number cap and may face a financial penalty".
"Only in the course of time will we know how many of these students will accept the offer," he added.
"But if all the students were to accept the offer we could be looking at an additional 100 students.
"For all students for whom we have a complete set of examination results, we are able to honour the offer made.
"These decisions are being communicated to the individual students through Ucas and we expect them to be confirmed on Ucas track by Sunday evening.
"The university wishes to reassure applicants that the information recorded on Ucas track is, and has always been accurate."
He said there were 20 students whose full set of examination results it had not received.
"Decisions on these students will be taken as soon as this information is available," he said.
Professor Millar said the 370 students who received unconditional offers were made up of those who had made the University of Ulster their first choice and their "insurance choice".
Additional checks
He said that "in light" of the extra student numbers it was admitting it would "put in place additional teaching and pastoral support".
"We are confident that if the students avail of the additional support that we are going to put in place then they should be able to make a success of the course," he added.
"The university is grateful for the understanding shown by the Department for Employment and Learning Minister, Dr Stephen Farry, and will be in discussions with him and his officials.
"Once again, the university apologises for the anxiety and distress that has been caused to any of our applicants and their families."
On Friday, Professor Millar apologised for the email error. He said 370 students had been sent emails of acceptance, when in reality only 180 places were available.
He said the email had "went out to all live applicants in the system regardless of what result they had achieved".
"We normally carried out the (acceptance) process by postal service and this is the first time we had tried this new system of communication with applicants by email," he added.
"Clearly things have gone wrong and that's something we would want to put right and we will put additional checks in place to ensure that this is not repeated."
He had said that the mistake was confined to the one faculty. The University of Ulster has campuses in Belfast, Jordanstown, Coleraine and in Londonderry.
Prof Millar had said it would be impossible to accept all those who applied due to funding reasons and physical space limitations.
He advised that those affected should monitor their status on the UCAS track website, where their final decision would be posted.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-19307130#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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