Dear John,

I am writing to acknowledge your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 received by The University of Manchester yesterday, our reference as per the subject line.

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Kind regards

Sharon

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Dear John,

Thank you for your email requesting the following and please find our
response below:

Please provide the following data in relation to all of your undergraduate
law courses (i.e. any course with course code M1**) for the following
admissions cycles:

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

2018/19

1. Whether the university currently operates a ‘contextual offers’ policy
where law applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds are, subject to
meeting certain criteria, eligible to be made a lower grade offer than
applicants who do not meet such criteria;

2. If such a policy is in place, the A-level or IB grades that typically
make up this lower ‘contextual offer’ (for example, AAA instead of A*AA);

3. The number of ‘contextual offers’ made to applicants to all law-related
courses throughout these four admissions cycles (for example, 4 in
2015/16, 2 in 2016/17, etc).

The University of Manchester did not operate a contextual offer scheme
before the 2018/19 cycle so we are unable to provide any data before this
time.

Data for the 2018/19 cycle is as follows:

There were 122 contextual offers for our BA (Hons) Law degrees for the
2018/19 cycle. The Offer was ABB to BBB. There were 445 contextual offers
for our LLB degrees and the offer was AAA to AAB.

I hope you find the above helpful.

Best regards

Lisa

Dr Lisa Crawley l  Information Officer  l Information Governance Office
l Directorate of Compliance and Risk l  Professional Support Services |
Room G7 Christie Building  l Compliance & Risk Management Office l  The
University of Manchester  l  Oxford Road  l  Manchester  l  M13 9PL  l 
Tel +44 (0)161 275 8400