2016-2018 Admission statistics (Postgraduate Taught)

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Dear University of Manchester,

I am requesting for the following information. Please kindly provide data for 2016/2017, 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 admission cycles separately, for each of them.

1. List of all postgraduate taught courses for 2016/2017,2017/2018, 2018/2019
2. Number of applicants
3. Number of interviews ( if applicable)
4. Number of offers made
5. Number of Chinese applications and offers made (Business Programs, Mathematics Programs, separately)
6. Percentage of international applicants interviewed that were made an offer (Business Programs , Mathematics Programs, separately)
7. Percentage of Chinese applicants interviewed and were made an offer (Business Programs, Mathematics Programs, separately)
8. Offer holders' bachelor degree main subject area (Business Programs, Mathematics Programs, separately)
9. Offer holders' bachelor degree average academic performance(Business Programs, Mathematics Programs, separately)
10.Offer holders' minimum entry grades in terms of academic performance (Business Programs, Mathematics Programs, separately)
11. Offer holders' universities attended for bachelor degree (Business Programs, Mathematics Programs, separately)

Yours faithfully,

KAI CHEN

MTRS FOIA, University of Manchester

Dear Kai Chen,

I am writing to acknowledge your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 received by The University of Manchester today, our reference as per the subject line.

The University will respond to your request within 20 working days.

Kind regards

Sharon

Sharon Glen | Information Officer | Information Governance Office | Directorate of Compliance and Risk |Professional Services | G7 Christie Building | The University of Manchester | Oxford Road | Manchester | M13 9PL | Tel +44(0) 161 306 7549| www.manchester.ac.uk

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Dear Kai,

 

Thank you for your request for information received by The University of
Manchester on 15 March 2019 which was as follows:

 

Please kindly provide data for 2016/2017, 2017/2018 and 2018/2019
admission cycles separately, for each of them.

 

1. List of all postgraduate taught courses for 2016/2017,2017/2018,
2018/2019

2. Number of applicants

3. Number of interviews ( if applicable)

4. Number of offers made

5. Number of Chinese applications and offers made (Business Programs,
Mathematics Programs, separately)

6. Percentage of international applicants interviewed that were made an
offer (Business Programs , Mathematics Programs, separately)

7. Percentage of Chinese applicants interviewed and were made an offer
(Business Programs, Mathematics Programs, separately)

8. Offer holders' bachelor degree main subject area (Business Programs,
Mathematics Programs, separately)

9. Offer holders' bachelor degree average academic performance(Business
Programs, Mathematics Programs, separately)

10.Offer holders' minimum entry grades in terms of academic performance
(Business Programs, Mathematics Programs, separately)

11. Offer holders' universities attended for bachelor degree (Business
Programs, Mathematics Programs, separately)

 

The University has now considered your request and unfortunately the
information you are seeking cannot be provided at this time. This is
because in relation to questions 8, 9, 10 and 11, there is no central
record of this information from which a response could be automatically
extracted. As such, we would need to manually assess each student’s
individual transcript to collate this information. Due to the very large
number of students this would involve (for example there were just under
9000 postgraduate taught students in total in 2016/17), it is not possible
to conduct this exercise within the 18 hour ‘Appropriate Limit’ (as
defined in the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate
Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004). As a result, Section 12 of the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 applies and regrettably this task cannot be
undertaken at this stage. This email serves to act as a refusal notice for
this request, as per Section 17 (5) of the Act.

 

Section 16 of the Freedom of Information Act imparts a duty on public
authorities to advise applicants to help them bring their request within
the 18 hour limit. As such, I can advise that were you to limit your
request to just questions 1, 2, 4 and 5 it is likely we would be able to
answer these within the limit. If that information would be of use to you,
we would be happy to consider a revised request on that basis, if you wish
to submit one.

 

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Kind regards

 

Sharon

 

Sharon Glen | Information Officer | Information Governance Office |
Directorate of Compliance and Risk |Professional Services | G7 Christie
Building | The University of Manchester | Oxford Road | Manchester | M13
9PL | Tel +44(0) 161 306 7549| [3]www.manchester.ac.uk

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Dear MTRS FOIA,

Thanks for your email. I understand the difficulty of collecting such data for my request. Could you please provide me the data in terms of my request 1, 2, 4 and 5? That would be really helpful.

1. List of all postgraduate taught courses for 2016/2017,2017/2018,
2018/2019

2. Number of applicants

4. Number of offers made

5. Number of Chinese applications ( China pr domiciled) and offers made (Business Programs,
Mathematics Programs, separately)

Yours sincerely,

KAI CHEN

MTRS FOIA, University of Manchester

Dear Kai Chen,

Thank you for your email. I am writing to acknowledge your new request below received by The University of Manchester today, our new reference as per the subject line.

The University will respond to your request within 20 working days.

Kind regards

Sharon

Sharon Glen | Information Officer | Information Governance Office | Directorate of Compliance and Risk |Professional Services | G7 Christie Building | The University of Manchester | Oxford Road | Manchester | M13 9PL | Tel +44(0) 161 306 7549| www.manchester.ac.uk

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Dear Kai Chen,

Thank you for your request for information received by The University of
Manchester on 27 March 2019 which was as follows:

 

1. List of all postgraduate taught courses for 2016/2017, 2017/2018,
2018/2019

 

2. Number of applicants

 

3. Number of offers made

 

4. Number of Chinese applications ( China pr domiciled) and offers made
(Business Programs, Mathematics Programs, separately)

 

The University has now considered your request and the information you are
seeking can be found attached to this email in a spread-sheet entitled
“FOI 019-164 POSTGRADUATE COURSE DATA”.

 

I trust this information is of use to you.

 

Kind regards

 

Sharon

 

Sharon Glen | Information Officer | Information Governance Office |
Directorate of Compliance and Risk |Professional Services | G7 Christie
Building | The University of Manchester | Oxford Road | Manchester | M13
9PL | Tel +44(0) 161 306 7549| [1]www.manchester.ac.uk

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Dear MTRS FOIA,
Thanks for your reply. I might not clarify it clearly in my previous request. According to my request 4 for "Number of Chinese applications ( China pr domiciled) and offers made (Business Programs, Mathematics Programmes, separately)", I would like you to provide the data in terms of a breakdown of all Business Programs ('Group N Business and Admin studies') and Mathematics Programmes ('Group G Mathematical Sciences'). If possible, could you please provide this information for 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019?

Yours sincerely,

KAI CHEN

MTRS FOIA, University of Manchester

Dear Kai Chen,

 

Thank you for your email.

 

In your last request you asked for the “Number of Chinese applications (
China pr domiciled) and offers made  (Business Programs, Mathematics
Programs, separately” which we provided a response to.

 

You are now requesting the following:

 

The “numbers of Chinese applications (China pr domiciled) and offers made”
broken down by “all Business Programs ('Group N Business and Admin
studies') and  Mathematics Programmes ('Group G Mathematical Sciences').
If possible, could you please provide this information for 2016-2017,
2017-2018, 2018-2019?”

 

We are treating this as a new request which has been logged as per the
subject line.

 

The University will respond to your request within 20 working days.

 

With best regards

 

Lisa

 

Dr Lisa Crawley l  Information Officer  l Information Governance Office
l Directorate of Compliance and Risk l  Professional Support Services |
Room G7 Christie Building  l Compliance & Risk Management Office l  The
University of Manchester  l  Oxford Road  l  Manchester  l  M13 9PL  l 
Tel +44 (0)161 275 8400  

 

 

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Dear Kai Chen,

 

Thank you for your request for information received by The University of
Manchester on 15 April 2019 which was as follows:

 

According to my request for "Number of Chinese applications ( China pr
domiciled) and offers made (Business Programs, Mathematics Programmes,
separately)", I would like you to provide the data in terms of a breakdown
of all Business Programs ('Group N Business and Admin studies') and 
Mathematics Programmes ('Group G Mathematical Sciences'). If possible,
could you please provide this information for 2016-2017, 2017-2018,
2018-2019?

 

The University has now considered your request and the data you have
requested can be found attached to this email on a spread-sheet entitled
“FOI 019-212 Chinese Applications in JCAS Groups G and N”.

 

I trust this information is of use to you.

 

Kind regards

 

Sharon

 

Sharon Glen | Information Officer | Information Governance Office |
Directorate of Compliance and Risk |Professional Services | G7 Christie
Building | The University of Manchester | Oxford Road | Manchester | M13
9PL | Tel +44(0) 161 306 7549| [1]www.manchester.ac.uk

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Dear MTRS FOIA,

Thanks for your reply. It is very useful.

Yours sincerely,

KAI CHEN