Students who choose LSE are intent on experiencing an active and varied programme. The student community at LSE is one of the most internationally diverse in the world, with students from over 145 countries living and studying on campus. This mix encourages a truly global and international approach which cannot be matched elsewhere. There are around 10,000 students at LSE, 59% of whom are studying at graduate level. If you are the kind of person who enjoys being challenged – intellectually, socially and personally – then you should choose LSE.
Our research informs and constantly invigorates our teaching. Graduate students are amongst the first to benefit from the new discovery and research innovations of LSE faculty through the research they undertake during their studies. Some 97% of LSE academics are actively engaged in research and are regularly sought out as advisers, consultants and commentators, becoming involved in the practical impact of the subjects they teach and research.
The School’s international reputation and its central London location ensure that in times of crisis it is to LSE that the media turn first for a response. The following will be familiar names to many news addicts:
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Professor Lord Nicholas Stern (climate change)
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Professor Conor Gearty (human rights)
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Professor Tim Besley (economic uncertainty)
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Professor Simon Hix (European politics)
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Dr Heather Jones (evolution of wartime violence)
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Professor Emily Jackson (medical law and ethics)
For a guide to staff research and consultancy experience, and their leading publications, please see lse.ac.uk/experts.
LSE is globally recognised as one of the world’s great social science research institutions. Rated 2nd in the UK, and the top UK research university solely focused on the social sciences[1], LSE is “the elite of the elite” according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings[2]. This position is confirmed by the 2014 results from Research Excellence Framework (the UK-wide assessment of research at universities undertaken by the Higher Education Funding Council every five to seven years) which positioned LSE as a world leading research university, with the School topping or coming close to the top of a number of rankings of research excellence.
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[1] Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, see http://www.ref.ac.uk/
[2] See http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/news/archives/2015/03/THEWRR2015.aspx