London School of Economics- UK's second best university as at 2012

  

London School of Economics

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Why choose LSE?                                                              

Highlights

Key facts

LSE is a specialist university with an international intake and a global reach. Its research and teaching span the full breadth of the social sciences, from economics, politics and law to sociology, anthropology, accounting and finance. Founded in 1895 by Beatrice and Sidney Webb, the School has an outstanding reputation for academic excellence. 16 Nobel prize winners have been LSE staff or alumni.

Research

In 2008 LSE's outstanding success in the Research Assessment Exercise confirmed it as a world leading research university. The School had the highest percentage of world leading research of any university in the UK, topping or coming close to the top of a number of rankings of research excellence. 

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Teaching

LSE offers a very wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the social sciences. Teaching is carried out through academic departments and interdisciplinary institutes, and in partnership with internationally renowned higher education institutions.

Engagement

Set up to improve society and to "understand the causes of things", LSE has always put engagement with the wider world at the heart of its mission.

From its location in the heart of London, the School links communities across the world, from formal academic partnerships to advisory work with governments and international organisations.

 George Bernard Shaw (founder of the London School of Economics

The School's location in central London is fundamental to its identity. When you choose to be an undergraduate at LSE, you are choosing not only a course of study, but a place to live and work for three years. LSE looks out over the London skyline, rather than over green fields. It is stimulating, cosmopolitan and very much a part of the 'real world'.
These qualities derive from the variety of its staff and students (about half our undergraduate students come from outside Britain, and about half the student body are postgraduates), from its active academic debate on current social, economic and political concerns, and from the easy interchange of ideas between the School and the world outside. Government, Parliament, the business and financial institutions of the City, the Law Courts and the media are all on the School's doorstep. Each year, there are many influential outside speakers at the School (politicians, business leaders and industrialists) as well as leading academics from all around the world who visit to participate in teaching, to give public lectures and to pursue their own research. LSE is compact and full to the brim with students and staff - this just contributes to the vitality and friendliness of the place.
LSE offers you the opportunity - and the challenge - to study different ways of understanding human society together with people from all parts of the world, with radically differing experiences, views and beliefs, in an atmosphere that encourages you to question ideas and to seek solutions to problems. If you welcome the stimulus of new experiences and ideas in a lively capital city - then choose LSE.
Courses offered                                         

• Accounting and Finance
• Economics
• English Language
• International Relations, Government & Society
• Law
• Management

Various Scholarships at London School of Economics and Political Sciences

In addition to the awards that are normally made (detailed below), weare pleased that for 2005/6 a scholarship has been given by the familyof Professor Tom Nossiter.

Professor Nossiter              

We have great pleasure in announcing a very special scholarship forExternal students. Professor Tom Nossiter who was a great supporter ofthe LSE's work with the University of London External Programme diedlast year. He taught at the LSE from 1973 – 1992 in the Department ofGovernment. He worked constantly for the External Programme and wasresponsible for a great many changes to ensure that it would continueto thrive. He was a political scientist and his major area was India,he enjoyed his visits there and he had many, many friends from thesubcontinent. In memory of Tom his friends and family have donated£1,000 to help support one student (from India) for the academic year2005 – 6 who has been offered a place at LSE and who has studiedthrough the External Programme. If you have been offered a place forthis session please inform the LSE External Study office (email: externalstudy@lse.ac.uk) and you will be automatically considered for the award.

The LSE awards three scholarships to External students who have been offered a place to study at the LSE:

Undergraduate award                                 

One scholarship is awarded annually to a student at undergraduatelevel. This is for two years and covers full fees and maintenance. Itis awarded to a student who has performed exceptionally well in theDiploma in Economics or in the Foundation units of the degrees inEconomics, Management, Finance and the Social Sciences.

Postgraduate awards                                

Two scholarships are awarded annually to students who havesuccessfully completed one of the degrees in Economics, Management,Finance and the Social Sciences as External students, and who have alsobeen accepted for postgraduate study at the LSE. To qualify studentswill normally have, or expect to have, a first-class honours degree.The scholarship covers full fees and maintenance.

The Charles Wallace Trust                    

The Charles Wallace Trust in conjunction with LSE External Studyoffers an annual award of £3,000 for postgraduate study at the LSE.Application is open to those who are both nationals of, and residentsin, Pakistan. In addition, applicants should have completed a degree inEconomics, Management, Finance and the Social Sciences as an Externalstudent, and have been offered a place to study on a Masters programmeat the LSE.

How to apply

To be considered for a scholarship, you must have already been offered a place provisionally at the LSE. 

Please inform the LSE External Study (Email: externalstudy@lse.ac.uk)office of your offer, including information about yourself (e.g.University of London student ID, the programme you are currentlystudying, the programme that you have received an offer for). After theexamination results are released in August, you will be informed if youhave been awarded a scholarship from the LSE External Study office.