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Dear Requester

 

Thank you for your request for information from Durham University.
Colleagues have provided the information below/attached in response to
your questions.

 

May I please request the following information for the previous 5 academic
years for the course Bsc Economics at University of Durham.

The specified cohort refers to home student applicants who study 3 or more
A-Levels.

 

1) Number of applicants who belong to the specified cohort

2) Number of offers made to the specified cohort

3) Number of applicants who belong to the specified cohort who took
Further Mathematics as one of their A-Levels

5) Mean number of A* predicted grades for offer holders from the specified
cohort

6) Mean number of A* (Grade 9 or 8) achieved grades at GCSE, of whom
received an offer from the specified cohort

7) Mean number of A (Grade 7) achieved grades at GCSE, of whom received an
offer from the specified cohort

8) Mean number of Grade 6 achieved grades at GCSE, of whom received an
offer from the specified cohort

9) Mean number of Grade 5-U achieved grades at GCSE, of whom received an
offer from the specified cohort

 

Please note the following about the information provided:

 

• Data has been provided for the academic years of entry 2019-20,
2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24
• All counts have been rounded to the nearest 5 as per HESA guidelines
on rounding and suppression of data

• The cohort used is home students (based on fee status) who were
predicted to take at least 3 A levels. A Levels refers to GCE Advanced
Level and Reformed A Levels

• Number of applicants includes all who applied to the course regardless
of the outcome of their application
• Number of offers includes conditional and unconditional offers

 

Request:

 

May I please request the following information for the previous 5 academic
years for the course BSc Economics at University of Durham.

The specified cohort refers to home student applicants who study 3 or more
A-Levels.

 

 1. Number of applicants who belong to the specified cohort

 

Course L100 Year of Entry
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
No. Applicants 480 565 545 455 645

 

 2. Number of offers made to the specified cohort

 

Course L100 Year of Entry
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
No. Offers 260 145 175 130 110

 

 3. Number of applicants who belong to the specified cohort who took
Further Mathematics as one of their A-Levels

 

Course L100 Year of Entry
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
No. Applicants who took Further Maths^1 170 205 180 140 220

^1Number of applicants who were predicted to take A Level Further
Mathematics

 

 

 5. Mean number of A* predicted grades (Alevels) for offer holders from
the specified cohort

 

Course L100 Year of Entry
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Mean no. A* predicted grades – offer holders 2.55 2.31 2.43 2.49 2.52

 

6)Mean number of A* (Grade 9 or 8) achieved grades at GCSE, of whom
received an offer from the specified cohort

7) Mean number of A (Grade 7) achieved grades at GCSE, of whom received an
offer from the specified cohort

8) Mean number of Grade 6 achieved grades at GCSE, of whom received an
offer from the specified cohort

9) Mean number of Grade 5-U achieved grades at GCSE, of whom received an
offer from the specified cohort

 

Mean no. of GCSE grade specified per offer Year of Entry
holder^2 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
A*/9/8 5.22 5.59 5.94 6.42 6.47
A/7 2.18 1.87 1.48 1.25 1.19
B/6 0.53 0.90 0.81 0.52 0.43
5-U (includes 5,4,3,2,1, & C,D, E &U) 0.11 0.45 0.48 0.34 0.14

^2Mean number of grades = total number of specific grades achieved by
offer holders/no. offer holders who took at least 1 GCSE

 

 

 

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