FOI_25-190 ClinPsyD international applicants
Date of response: 25 July 2025
We have now considered your request of 26 June 2025 for the following information:
I would like to request for the ClinPsyD programme for the 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 year, for international applications who applied through funded places and self-funded places respectively
1. The number of international applications
2. The number of international applications offered an interview
3. The number of offer after the interview
4. Years of related experience and what was the experience
Our response:
We regret that on this occasion it is not possible to provide the requested information.
Under Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act, we can confirm that the University does hold the information requested, however on this occasion it is not possible for us to provide any of the information relating to the number of international applicants, the number of international applicants offered an interview, the number of applicants given an offer after interview, the years of related experience and what the experience was.
We have determined that the cost of finding and assembling the requested information will exceed the ‘appropriate limit’ as defined by section 12 of the Act and the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004/3244.
'The ‘appropriate limit’ of £450, which equates to 18 hours’ work, as defined by the Information Commissioner’s Office, can relate to one request in its entirety or to a series of linked requests. If the University cannot locate, retrieve and extract some or all of the requested information within the 18 hours we are not obliged to retrieve any of the requested information.
To explain our position, all applications for the ClinPsyD programme are submitted via the Clearing House, meaning they are not stored in our internal systems. As a result, identifying whether applicants are international students, whether they received an interview or an offer, the number of years’ experience and what each applicant’s related experience was, requires manual review of each application, as there is no automated method available.
For the period outlined in your request we have identified over 800 applications which may fall into the scope of your request. The only way of identifying, extracting and recording the exact information you seek would be to interrogate each individual application record.
We have calculated it would take 6 minutes per application record, or 106 hours, to locate and manually interrogate each individual application record. Which exceeds the appropriate time-limit as outlined above.
Under section 16 of the Act, and to assist you in formulating a request to which we can respond, we can provide the number of all applications received, and the acceptance rate.
Please note we have not considered whether any exemptions may apply to such a request.
We should also point out that any revised request you submit will be treated as a new FOI request, and the 20 working-day time-limit will begin again.
We are sorry we cannot provide the data you requested, but trust this response explains our position.