This is an HTML version of an attachment to the Freedom of Information request 'Postgraduate College Preferences'.


 
Miss Zoe Allwood 
FOI Manager 
 
 
 
 
R Aron 
 
By email 
 
 
Reference: FOI-2019-705 
08 November 2019 
 
 
 
 
Dear R Aron, 
 
Your request was received on 19 October 2019 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the 
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (‘the Act’). 
 
You asked: 
 
I would like to know the breakdown of postgraduate First and Second preferences for admission 
to graduate programs, i.e. for each college what percent of the total students indicated it as their 
first preference, and what percent of total students indicated it as a second preference. 
Furthermore, for each college, I would like to know what percent of students who indicated it as 
First or Second preference were admitted to it. This includes First and Second preference, 
essentially percent of students in a given college who indicated that they would prefer to be 
allocated there.  

 
The requested information is attached. 
 
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Yours sincerely, 
 
Zoe Allwood 
 

Code
College
1st choice
%
2nd choice
%
Admitted
%
CHR
Christ's College
510
2%
527
2%
98
2.5%
CHU
Churchill College
728
3%
333
1%
124
3.1%
CL
Clare College
333
1%
367
2%
99
2.5%
CLH
Clare Hall
243
1%
253
1%
106
2.7%
CC
Corpus Christi College
509
2%
468
2%
77
1.9%
DAR
Darwin College
574
3%
661
3%
251
6.4%
DOW
Downing College
383
2%
380
2%
119
3.0%
EM
Emmanuel College
261
1%
303
1%
74
1.9%
F
Fitzwilliam College
216
1%
173
1%
135
3.4%
G
Girton College
73
0%
137
1%
144
3.6%
CAI
Gonville and Caius College
425
2%
341
2%
86
2.2%
HO
Homerton College
263
1%
204
1%
182
4.6%
HH
Hughes Hall
338
2%
245
1%
263
6.7%
JE
Jesus College
667
3%
588
3%
147
3.7%
K
King's College
1494
7%
1142
5%
96
2.4%
LC
Lucy Cavendish College
127
1%
114
1%
167
4.2%
M
Magdalene College
229
1%
241
1%
69
1.7%
NH
Murray Edwards College
33
0%
44
0%
77
1.9%
N
Newnham College
233
1%
139
1%
155
3.9%
PEM
Pembroke College
398
2%
555
2%
87
2.2%
PET
Peterhouse
360
2%
388
2%
55
1.4%
Q
Queens' College
387
2%
473
2%
186
4.7%
R
Robinson College
53
0%
70
0%
68
1.7%
SE
Selwyn College
156
1%
192
1%
68
1.7%
SID
Sidney Sussex College
82
0%
118
1%
86
2.2%
CTH
St Catharine's College
250
1%
293
1%
98
2.5%
ED
St Edmund's College
560
2%
420
2%
221
5.6%
JN
St John's College
947
4%
894
4%
133
3.4%
T
Trinity College
2641
12%
1210
5%
122
3.1%
TH
Trinity Hall
310
1%
346
2%
76
1.9%
W
Wolfson College
277
1%
376
2%
283
7.2%
Total applications
22447
Total Admitted
3952

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