London School of Economics

32 Lincoln's Inn Fields houses the Department of Economics and the International Growth Centre at LSE

The London School of Economics and Political Science (more commonly London School of Economics or LSE) is a college of the University of London in Westminster. The college opened in 1895. It joined the University of London in 1900. Today it is one of the leading universities for Law, Economics and Political Sciences. QS ranked it as the second best university in the world for social science in 2013.

Some of the most notable people who attended the college are:

• Bertrand Russell
• Ed Miliband
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy
• John Richard Hicks
• Friedrich August von Hayek
• George Bernard Shaw
• Mick Jagger
• Monica Lewinsky

It is a member of the Russell Group. In 2011 17,654 people applied for 1,271 undergraduate places. This means there were 13.8 applicants for every place. Over half of LSE's students are postgraduates. 16 Nobel Prize winners have been LSE students or staff. It has the highest percentage of students from another country in the world and 46% of staff are from other countries.

London School Of Economics Media

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  Beatrice and Sidney Webb

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  Friedrich Hayek, who taught at LSE during the 1930s and 1940s

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  Stonework featuring the initials of LSE

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  Minouche Shafik, Director then President and Vice Chancellor of the LSE during the period when it became a full university in is own right.

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  The World Turned Upside Down. Taiwan is coloured differently from China

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  LSE_main_entrance

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  Centre Building, opened in 2019

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  The Sir Arthur Lewis Building houses the Department of Economics and the International Growth Centre

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  The New Academic Building houses the LSE Law School