Dear Lizzy,

With reference to your request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act, please find attached the information you requested.

Please note, we have included the total number of applications and offers
(the numbers of students who register on the programmes will be smaller).
Any numbers less than 5 have been changed to ‘<5’ in order to protect the
identities of those individuals.

When it comes to the second part of the question we have taken only those
offer holders who had already achieved their final mark at the time of
application (and therefore received unconditional offers), since that is
what is mentioned in the question. We have also restricted it to those who
studied at UK universities, since there is no globally recognisable
equivalence which can be applied across the board for honours
classification.

We have only included figures for first and 2:1 degrees as no offers were
made to people with marks below that level. <5 in this instance includes
zero in a number of cases.

These data are all from the 2017/8 (2018 entry) application cycle.

Programme Total Total Unconditional offers Unconditional
applications offers made to candidates with offers made to
a 1^st (UK universities candidates with
only) a 2:1 (UK
universities
only)
MSc Finance 1554 221 7 <5
MSc Finance 1107 110 5 <5
and Economics
MSc Finance 723 68 7 <5
and Private
Equity
MSc Financial 564 76 <5 <5
Mathematics
MSc Applicable 207 78 5 <5
Mathematics
MSc Data 638 43 <5 <5
Science

If you think that the information provided does not meet your request,
contact me on 020 7849 4622 or write to Louise Nadal, School Secretary,
London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London,
WC2A 2AE. We will then review the response to your request and get back to
you within 20 working days. You can also contact the Information
Commissioner's Office [1]http://www.ico.gov.uk/, though they expect the
internal review to be carried out before receiving a complaint directly.

The provision of information by the LSE under the Freedom of Information
Act 2000 does not imply a right to copy, reproduce publish or otherwise
use such information.

Copying or reproducing such information in any way either in whole or in
part without prior written consent may be an infringement of copyright or
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Yours sincerely,

Rachael Maguire

Records Manager

London School of Economics

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