Admission Statistics For Postgraduate Taught Masters

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Dear University College London,

Under the Freedom of Information Act, please may you provide the following data for the 2020/2021 admission cycle:

1. Number of applicants to each postgraduate taught program
2. Number of offers made for each postgraduate taught program
3. Number of Chinese applications and offers made for each postgraduate programme

Yours faithfully,
Y Jagger

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Dear Yasmine

Thank you for your request of 11 October.

In order for us to respond to your request we would be grateful if you could provide some clarification.

Please could you clarify, where you ask for information about Chinese applications, whether you require information in relation to Chinese nationality, domicile or ethnicity.

Once we have had a response from you we will begin processing your request. If we do not hear from you by 11 November we will assume that you no longer wish to proceed with your request.

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Rosie Lucas
Data Protection and Freedom of Information Adviser University College London Legal Services Data Protection: [email address] FOI: [UCL request email]

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Dear Finance.FOI Requests,

Thank you for your response.

I would like to know how many applications for each postgraduate program were made and offered by and to applicants of Chinese nationality.

Thank you

Yours sincerely,

Yasmine Jagger

Dear Finance.FOI Requests,

Thank you for the reply.

Please can I have the information for those of Chinese nationality and domicile.

Thank you

Yours sincerely,

Yasmine Jagger

Finance.FOI Requests, University College London

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Dear Yasmine

 

Thank you for your request of 11 October, which you clarified on 14
October.

 

You requested in relation to the 2020/21 admission cycle:

1. Number of applicants to each postgraduate taught program

2. Number of offers made for each postgraduate taught program

3. Number of Chinese applications and offers made for each postgraduate
programme

 

You clarified that you were requesting this information in relation to
applications and offers made by people with Chinese nationality and not
domicile.

 

We confirm that we hold the information you requested and it is set out in
the attached spreadsheet.

As you can see within the spreadsheet, where the number of applicants or
offer holders is fewer than 5, the information has been withheld because
this is personal data of third parties or, if linked with other personal
identifiers in the public domain, would be likely to become personal data.
This information has been withheld under Section 40(2) of the FOIA by
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Dear Finance.FOI Requests,

Thank you very much for this information.

Yours sincerely,

Yasmine Jagger