Miss Zoe Allwood
FOI Manager
Anik Bhaduri
By email
Reference: FOI-2021-432
11 June 2021
Dear Anik Bhaduri,
Your request was received on 16 May 2021 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (‘the Act’).
You asked:
I wish to request the following admission statistics for the postgraduate LLM programme and the
MCL programme in the Faculty of Law for students from India each year from 2015-16 to 2021-
22.
[1] - Total number of applications received and number of offers made each year.
[2] - The class rank of the successful applicants for each year, as expressed through
percentage of their batch size, that is, whether the applicants were in the top 5%, top 10%, top
15% of their cohort.
1. This information is as follows:
Course Name/Year
Applications
Offers
Master of Corporate
Law
2015-2016
17
3
2016-2017
18
4
2017-2018
38
5
2018-2019
33
8
2019-2020
33
5
2020-2021
41
9
2021-2022
53
8
Master of Law
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2015-2016
124
32
2016-2017
150
35
2017-2018
179
35
2018-2019
163
42
2019-2020
186
36
2020-2021
222
60
2021-2022
273
81
Note 2021-22 (i.e. current cycle) data is as of 10 June 2021.
2. This information is not collated – it is only held if an applicant or referee themselves mentions it in
the course of their application/reference.
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Yours sincerely,
Zoe Allwood