An LSE education is valued by employers becausde of the intellectual rigour of its courses, the breadth of the student experience and the global focus of the School. A degree from LSE is widely recognised internationally, and our graduates go on to great things in a variety of sectors around the world .
The school is heavily targeted by employers, and graduates from LSE are in great demand. Our students go on to all sorts of careers. By far the largest single group of graduates go into further academic study or vocational training (mainly for law). A few of our top employers are shown below:
The next largest group are those who work in financial services, mainly as trainee accountants; others work in various aspects of finance, for banks, insurance comnpanies and stockbrokers. However there is a broad range of employers and types of work represented in our graduate destinations: management trainees (for example, in health and local authorities, retail, media, marketing, transport, engineering, food and drink, software and electronics companies), personnel officers, researchers and analysts, publishers and booksellers, lawyers, charity and social workers and civil servants.
