FOI_25-085 MBBS Medicine A100 applicants with BTEC qualifications 2020 to 2024 entry years
Date of response: 04 April 2025
We have now considered your request of 21 March 2025 for the following information:
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I would like to request information regarding the admission of students with BTEC qualifications, to the undergraduate Medicine programme at the University of East Anglia.
Could you please provide the following data for the last five admission cycles (e.g., 2020 to 2024).
Question 1. The total number of applicants to the Medicine 'MBBS with a gateway year' programme.
Our response:
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 307 | 345 | 383 | 341 | 291 |
Question 2. The number of applicants who applied with BTEC qualification.
Our response:
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 12 | 26 | 24 | 21 |
Question 3. The number of BTEC applicants who were invited for an interview.
Our response:
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| <5 | <5 | <5 | <5 | <5 |
Question 4. The number of BTEC applicants who received an offer.
Our response:
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| <5 | <5 | <5 | <5 | <5 |
Question 5. Any specific and/or additional requirements regarding BTEC qualifications to meet entry requirements into the Medicine programme.
Our response:
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Excludes BTEC Public Services, Uniformed Services and Business Administration | Excludes BTEC Public Services, Uniformed Services and Business Administration | Excludes BTEC Public Services, Uniformed Services and Business Administration | Excludes BTEC Public Services, Uniformed Services and Business Administration | Excludes BTEC Public Services, Uniformed Services and Business Administration |
For full entry requirements including contextual criteria please see our web page: https://www.uea.ac.uk/course/undergraduate/mbbs-medicine-with-a-gateway-year/2024-25/sep#entry_requirements
Values marked fewer than five <5: Section 40 (2) exemption explanation:
On this occasion, it is not possible to provide all the requested information. The Act contains several exemptions that allow public authorities to withhold certain information from release. We have applied the following exemption to part of your request.
| Exemption | Reason |
|---|---|
| Section 40(2) Personal information | Disclosure of some of the requested information would be contrary to the requirements of the UK General Data Protection Regulation |
We can confirm that the University does hold this data, and we believe that the requested information, constitutes the personal data of individuals, as defined by Article 4(1) of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). However, due to the small numbers involved, we consider these details are exempt from disclosure under Section 40(2) of the FOI Act.
We believe that disclosure this data would be contrary to the requirements of Article 5(1)(a) of the GDPR; namely that information must be processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner. These individuals would have no expectation that this information would be made publicly available, and we have not identified a lawful basis that would allow or require us to disclose this information. To ensure that we do not inadvertently release personal data in this response or in combination with other publicly available data, we have replaced all values between 0 and 4 in relation to the number of individuals with the value ‘<5’.