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Dear Mr Selon,

Thank you for your below request for information.

Please can you clarify what you mean by 'acceptances'?

Is it the number of offers that were accepted? Or is it the intake of students?

Please note that if you're looking for the student intake data, the data will not be available until the end of October as we are currently still enrolling students.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Mehwish Sultan
Data Protection and Freedom of Information Adviser
University College London
Legal Services
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Telephone: +44 (0)203 108 7862 (internal 57862)

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Dear Mr Selon,

I'm afraid that your below clarification is still not clear.

The "the number of offers given" and the "number of student who were accepted to this program" are different things.

For example, for 2019 entry we made around 25,000 offers of places for all postgraduate programmes; whereas we only admitted about 13,000 students.

Can you please specify exactly what you are referring to?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Mehwish Sultan
Data Protection and Freedom of Information Adviser
University College London
Legal Services
E: [email address] Data Protection: [email address] FOI: [UCL request email].
Telephone: +44 (0)203 108 7862 (internal 57862)

Working hours: Please note that I work from home on Mondays.

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Dear Mr Selon,

We have completed the compilation of information in response to your
request.

We can confirm that we do hold information of the description specified in
your request and this information, where it is not exempt is provided
attached

Your request:

Regarding all MSc courses:

I'd like to know the following information for the sessions 2019/2020 if
any data is available.

Number of applicants, and number of acceptances.

Clarification received:

I would like the number of offers given.

Our response:

Please see attached PDF document.

As you can see, exact counts totalling five or less have been withheld
because these are 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 virtue of s40 (3)(a)(i).

Section 40(2) of the FOIA allows a public authority to withhold 
information under the FOIA where (i) the requested information is
personal  data relating to someone other than the requester and (ii) its
disclosure  would breach any of the data protection principles. In this
case we  believe that the requested information could relate to and
identify  individuals and would be considered as their personal data. The
disclosure  of this personal data would not be within the reasonable
expectations of the individuals concerned and it would be unfair to do so;
this therefore breaches the first data protection principle.

It is for these reasons that this information is exempt under section
40(2) of the Act.

As the section 40(2) exemption is an absolute one, there is no need to
conduct a public interest test.

You are free to use any information supplied for your own use, including
for non-commercial research purposes. The information may also be used for
the purposes of news reporting. However, any other type of re-use, for
example by publishing or issuing copies to the public, will require the
permission of the copyright owner.

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Mehwish Sultan

Data Protection and Freedom of Information Adviser

University College London

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