Every undergraduate student is charged a fee for each year of his or her programme.
The fee covers registration and examination fees payable to the School, lectures, classes and individual supervision, lectures given at other colleges under intercollegiate arrangements and, under current arrangements, membership of the Students' Union. It does not cover living costs or travel or fieldwork.
Fees are fixed each spring for the following session only.
All queries regarding your fees and fee payments are dealt with by the Fees Office.
Fee status classification
On receipt of your UCAS form the School carries out an assessment of your fee status determining the amount you are likely to pay at Registration. This decision is based on guidelines provided by the Department of Education: Education (Fees and Awards) Regulations 2007. Further information is on our fee status classification page.
Fees for 2016 entry
Home UK/EU fees
For 2016 entry the fees will be set later in the year. However as a guideline for 2015 entry the LSE tuition fee for new UK and European Union (EU) undergraduates is £9,000 for the first year, but may rise in line with inflation in subsequent years.
Under the 2015 arrangements, students ordinarily resident in England and EU students to not have to pay any tuition fees up front. Instead, the cost of tuition is covered by a non-means tested government loan which students only start to repay once they have left their programme and are earning over £21,000 per year. Students from Wales are also entitled to have their fees paid up front, and this takes the form of part loan and part grant. Fee loans are also available to students from Scotland and Northern Ireland but terms may differ. It is also possible for you or your family to pay some or all of the fee up front.
More information about tuition fee loans can be found on the following websites
Directgov
Moneysavingexpert.com
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Northern Ireland
www.studentfinanceni.co.uk
Scotland
www.saas.gov.uk/
Wales
www.studentfinancewales.co.uk
Channel Island Fees
For 2016 entry, the fees will be set later in the year. However, as a guideline for 2015 the LSE tuition fee for new undergraduates ordinarily resident in the Channel Islands is £9,000 per year.
Overseas fees
For 2016 entry, the LSE tuition fee for new overseas (non-EU) undergraduates will be set later in the year. However as a guideline the LSE tuition fee for new overseas (non-EU) undergraduates in 2015 is £17,040 per year.
Overseas students are required to pay this fee in instalments or in full at the start of each year. The overseas fee usually rises by between 2.5 per cent and 4 per cent each year.