STEP Offer Statistics and Others

Dear Mr Ng

This is to acknowledge receipt of your request below, made under the Freedom of Information Act. The College aims to respond to your request within twenty working days of receipt of your request.

We will contact you again in due course.

Kind regards,

Catherine Harpham

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Dear Mr Ng

Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find below the College's response to your questions.

"how many international and UK students respectively applying for Mathematics without taking MAT were given STEP offers in each of the years since MAT was adopted."

Please see Table 1 on the attached spreadsheet, showing the number of offers made for Undergraduate degree programmes in the Mathematics Department where STEP was required in the offer conditions, since 2013, split by UK and International applicants.

Please see the notes at the top of the spreadsheet, which give important information about the data provided. In particular, because MAT data is only retained for the most recent completed UCAS cycle, Table 1 includes data on all applicants regardless of whether or not they took the MAT.

Table 2 on the attached spreadsheet shows the number of offers made for undergraduate degree programmes in the department of Mathematics at Imperial College London in the 2017 UCAS cycle where STEP was required as part of the offer conditions and where the MAT was not taken.

"a table for the number of students from each non-UK nationality group(including China, France, Malaysia, Italy, Germany, Singapore, Spain, Greece, India, Hong Kong etc.) having applied for BSc Mathematics, BSc Mathematics, Optimisation and Statistics, BSc Mathematics (Pure Mathematics), and BSc Mathematics with Applied Mathematics/Mathematical Physics got an offer in the past 5 years respectively."

Please see Table 3 on the attached spreadsheet.

"male to female ratio of the students who accepted the offer can also be provided for each of the above courses"

Please see Table 4 on the attached spreadsheet which shows the figures.

Please note that in all the Tables, figures of five or fewer have been replaced with an asterisk. This is because, due to the small numbers involved, individuals may otherwise be identifiable from the data provided. This information is therefore exempt from disclosure under Section 40 (2) of the Freedom of Information Act, which states that "any information to which a request for information relates is also exempt information if - (a) it constitutes personal data."

Further information about Mathematics admissions, including information about MAT and STEP papers, can be found on the College's website at the following link: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/mathematics/un...

I am obliged, under the Freedom of Information Act, to inform you of our complaints procedures in case you are unhappy about the way in which your request has been dealt with. If you wish to complain about this response, you should contact the College Secretary at the address below.

The College Secretary
Imperial College London
Exhibition Road
London
SW7 2AZ
E-mail: [email address]

If you are unhappy about the way in which the College Secretary handles your complaint then you may have recourse to the official regulator for the Freedom of Information Act who is:

The Information Commissioner
Wycliffe House
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Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
http://www.ico.gov.uk

Kind regards,

Catherine Harpham

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