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Dear Lalita

Many apologies for the delay in responding to your request. I am in the process of finalising our response and aim to get it to you this week.

Could I just check regarding question 11 - by international, do you mean people whose domicile is outside the UK?

Many thanks for your patience.

Kind regards
Janine

Janine Small
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 Lalita

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request of 27^th October 2021
and clarification of 30^th November 2021.  Apologies for the delay in
responding to your request.

We have completed the compilation of information in response to your
request for information about UCL’s BSc Information Management for
Business (P1N1) programme for the 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021
admissions cycles.

Your clarified that:  by ‘international’ you mean people whose domicile is
outside the UK.

We can confirm that we do hold some information of the description
specified in your request and this information is provided embedded in
your request below.

Your Request:

 1. The percentage and number of IB diplomas getting an offer among total
offers for UCL IMB course during the admissions cycles aforementioned

  2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Number of IB offers 85 105 115 180 85
Percentage of IB offers among total offers (%) 18.3 27.3 27.3 23.8 26.5

 2. The average IB scores of applicants  (UCL IMB course P1N1) during the
aforementioned admission cycle years

  2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Average IB score of applicants 35.5 37.1 36.9 38.3 39.8

 3. The average IB scores of offer holders (UCL IMB course P1N1) during
the aforementioned cycle years

  2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Average IB score of offer holders 36.1 37.6 37.6 38.6 40.8

 4. A complete, anonymised list of all IB grades achieved by the students
who enrolled in the UCL IMB course P1N1 following the aforementioned
admissions cycle.

o This information has been withheld under Section 40(2) of the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) by virtue of Section 40(3A)(i).

Section 40(2) of the FOIA allows a public authority to withhold
information from a response to a request under the FOIA when the
information requester is personal data relating to someone other than the
requester, and its disclosure would breach any of the Data Protection
principles.

In this case we believe that the disclosure of the IB grades achieved by
the students who enrolled on the P1N1 programme in the 2017, 2018, 2019,
2020 and 2021 admissions cycles, even on an anonymised basis, would not be
within the reasonable expectations of the individuals concerned, and as
such would be unfair and in breach of the first Data Protection principle
which requires personal data to be processed fairly and lawfully.

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

 5. Total number applicants for the UCL IMB P1N1 course for the
aforementioned cycles

  2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Number of applicants 990 920 1030 1210 1590

 6. The total number of offer holders for the UCL IMB P1N1 course for the
aforementioned cycles

  2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Number of offer holders 460 380 415 760 325

 7. The offer rate of for the UCL IMB course of the aforementioned cycles

  2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Offer rate 0.46 0.42 0.40 0.63 0.20

 8. The offer rate for the UCL IMB course  for international students of
the aforementioned cycles

  2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Offer rate 0.54 0.48 0.45 0.69 0.19

 9. Top three most chosen IB subjects for offer holders

o Mathematics
o Economics
o English Language & Literature

With regards to questions 1, 5 and 6 above, whilst UCL is committed to
openness and transparency, we are also mindful of our obligations under
the Data Protection regime, and therefore take steps to anonymise data
before it is released. We therefore adopt the following approach when
releasing statistics that relate to people, to prevent unauthorised
disclosure of information that relates to individuals:

•               Numbers of individuals are rounded to the nearest multiple
of five – so if the figure is 102 individuals, this is rounded to 100. Any
number lower than 2.5 is rounded to zero.

•               Percentages that are based on a group of 22 individuals or
less are not provided, and this includes requests for percentile
information about marks.

•               Averages based on 7 or fewer individuals are not provided.

We have identified that, even providing information on an anonymous basis,
there is a risk of the identification of underlying individuals from the
information that you have requested. This information, therefore, would be
personal data of such individuals or, if linked with other personal
identifiers in the public domain, would be likely to become personal data.
Personal data is exempt from disclosure under Section 40(2) of the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) by virtue of Section 40(3A)(i). To avoid
potential identification of individuals we have applied rounding, or
otherwise withheld some information, as set out above.

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 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.

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
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Kind regards,

Janine Small

Data Protection and Freedom of Information Adviser

University College London

Legal Services

Data Protection: [4][email address] FOI: [5][UCL request email]

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