Postgraduate Admissions Data (All Nationals & Chinese) for 2020 & 2021 Intake

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Dear London School of Economics,

Under the Freedom of Information Act, I am writing to ask for your kind respond to the following request:

1) Could you provide the number of applications received, the number of offers made and the number of offers accepted for each of the postgraduate programme (MA & MSc only, excluding MRes, PhD, or graduate certificate/diploma) for the 2020 intake and 2021 intake please? I understand that the admissions cycle for the 2021 intake has not yet been completed, so the latest data until May/June 2021 will do.

2) Could you provide the same dataset for Chinese nationals only please?

Yours faithfully,

Harvey Li

GLPD.Info.Rights, London School of Economics

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GLPD.Info.Rights, London School of Economics

Dear Harvey,

With reference to your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act, please find below the School's response.

The 2020/21 statistics are available from these links:

https://info.lse.ac.uk/staff/divisions/S...

https://info.lse.ac.uk/staff/divisions/S...

As such, the exemption in Section 21, information already available applies.

The 2021/22 statistics will be made available from the School's publication scheme once the admissions round is finalised. As such, this data is exempt under Section 22, information due for publication. This is a public interest test exemption and as providing the data as it is now would only be partial and would not help applicants to gain a place at the LSE, it is not considered in the public interest to release this information.

If you think that the information provided does not meet your request, contact me on this email address 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 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 other intellectual property right belonging to the LSE or a third party.

Yours sincerely,
Rachael Maguire
Information and Records Manager
London School of Economics

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