By e-mail: Aran Gill
Office of the University Secretary
<xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
4 West
University of Bath
Claverton Down
Bath
BA2 7AY
19 October 2017
Dear Aran
Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 2000 – 2017/254
Your request was received on 23 September 2017 and handled under the provisions of the
Freedom of Information Act, 2000. It is copied below for your reference.
“I would like to request, under the Freedom of Information Act, the following figures for
BSc Economics (L100), for the years of 2015 and 2016:
1. Total number of applications received and total number of offers made (unconditional and
conditional)
2. Total number of places for the course
3. Average No. of A*s at GCSE for offer holders”
Section 1(1) usually entitles you to be told whether the requested information is held and have
that information provided to you unless it is judged to be exempt from disclosure. We can confirm
that we hold information in response of your request. As final admission decisions are made
across the range of our four economics courses, meaning that student numbers will vary from
year to year, we have provided data for all four.
1. Applications to Economics degrees (by year)
BSc Economics and
BSc Economics
Politics
Year
L100
L101
LL12
LLC2
2015
942
553
152
79
2016
1096
617
169
78
Unconditional offers made to Economics degrees (by year)
BSc Economics and
BSc Economics
Politics
Year
L100
L101
LL12
LLC2
2015
40
15
6
1
2016
49
20
7
3
Conditional offers made to Economics degrees (by year)
BSc Economics and
BSc Economics
Politics
Year
L100
L101
LL12
LLC2
2015
702
463
108
66
2016
809
508
100
61
2. There were 202 places available in total for our four economics courses starting in 2015 and
2016, including L100.
3. Data in this chart excludes students holding fewer than five GCSEs, the majority of whom
studied outside the United Kingdom.
Average number of A*s at GCSE for offer
holders
BSc Economics and
BSc Economics
Politics
Year
L100
L101
LL12
LLC2
2015
5.7
5.7
6.4
5.7
2016
5.7
5.9
6.2
5.9
If you are dissatisfied with any aspect of how your request was handled you may ask the
University to conduct an internal review. A request for an internal review must be submitted
within 40 working days of receipt by you of this response. Requests received outside this period
will only be considered at the University's discretion and where there is a valid reason to do so.
Applications for internal review should be addressed in writing to: The University Secretary,
University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY or e-mail
x.x.x.xxxxxxxxx@xxxx.xx.xx. If you remain dissatisfied you may appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office at Wycliffe
House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF. Further details of this process are available
via the following link:
https://ico.org.uk/concerns/getting/ Please note that the Information
Commissioner will only consider appeals once the internal review process has been completed.
Yours sincerely
John Evans
Freedom of Information Officer