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Dear Ruochen

Thank you for your request of 15 October.

In order for us to respond to your request I would be grateful if you could please clarify what you mean by "graduate programme" . Does this mean postgraduate taught programmes or postgraduate taught and postgraduate research?

Once we have had a response from you we will being processing your request.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards

Rosie

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Dear Ruouchen Liu

Thank you for your request of 16 October. I apologise for the delay in
responding to you.

You asked the following in relation to the years 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
and 2020:

(1) Can you please provide the number of application, offers and final
intake for each of the graduate programmes at the UCL?

(2) Can you please provide the number of application, offers and final
intake for each of the graduate programmes at the UCL, for Chinese
nationality applicants only?

(3)Can you please provide the number of application, offers and final
intake for Chinese nationality applicants at the UCL, broke down into the
university they attended for their bachelor's degree?

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

As you will see within the attached spreadsheet, where the number of
applicants, offer holders, or students 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
virtue of Section 40(3A)(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 about individuals might allow them
to be identified and therefore would be personal data.  The disclosure of
these 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.

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

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Rosie Lucas

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