Prospective students

BSc Mathematics and Economics (3 year degree)

BSc Mathematics with Economics (3 year degree)

BSc Financial Mathematics and Statistics (3 year degree)

MSc Applicable Mathematics

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MSc Financial Mathematics

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MSc Operations Research & Analytics

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LSE's Department of Mathematics is internationally recognised in the research areas in which we specialise:

Discrete Mathematics & Algorithms

• Extremal & probabilistic combinatorics
• Structural graph theory
• Discrete geometry
• Random structures
• Theory of computation
• And more: See here

Operations Research

• Integer programming
• Combinatorial optimisation
• Optimisation in discrete random systems
• Applications & algorithms
• And more: see here

Financial Mathematics & Control Theory

• Market structure & equilibrium theory
• Stochastic control & optimisation
• Stochastic portfolio theory
• Systemic risk
• Principal-agent problems
• And more: see here

Game Theory

• Algorithmic game theory
• Information economics
• Equilibrium structure & existence
• And more: see here

Graduate Admissions information

Students interested in visiting the Department of Mathematics for up to one academic year should follow the normal application procedure outlined for the PhD/MPhil programme, bearing in mind some differences:

Application code: G1EM

Duration: up to 9 months (renewable)

Fees: details of fees can be found here.

More information about being a Visiting Research Student (VRS) at the School is available here.