Percentage of offers made where conditional grades not met and 23/24 application numbers

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1. The percentage of new undergraduate students in 2023/24 on each course,
who were offered a place despite not meeting their conditional offer
grades (excluding foundation years).

2. The number of applicants for each Undergraduate course , the number of
offers made and the enrolment numbers for each course for the year
2023/24.

 

See attached, please note the following:

 

The University confirms that it holds the information on enrolment for the
2023-24 academic year. However, the University declines your request for
release under section 43(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
Section 43(2) of the FOIA exempts information from release where its
disclosure under the Act would, or would be likely to, prejudice the
commercial interests of any person. As section 43(2) is a qualified
exemption, the University has conducted a public interest test and has
concluded that release of this data would be likely to prejudice the
University’s commercial interests.

 

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plans accordingly. Consequently, the University’s position in this
specialist market would be undermined as competitors would be able to
tailor their own admission’s strategies to match or exceed our own
targets.

 

• All counts have been rounded to the nearest 5 as per HESA guidelines
on rounding and suppression of data. For Q1, percentages where the
cohort size was less than the HESA guidelines for publication of data
regarding percentages (fewer than 22.5) have been suppressed and
denoted by NA.
• Number of applicants includes all who applied for the course
regardless of the outcome of their application
• Number of offers includes conditional and unconditional offers
• Data is provided for academic year of entry 2023/24
• For Q1 for each course % =(number of entrants who missed conditions of
their offer but were accepted/number of entrants) *100

 

 

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