Every undergraduate student is charged a fee for each year of their 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, and will be published in the Table of Fees.
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.
See information for 2016 entry
Fees for 2017 entry
Home UK/EU fees
For 2017 entry the LSE tuition fee for new UK and European Union (EU) undergraduates is £9,250* for the first year, but may rise in line with inflation in subsequent years.
*The UK Government confirmed in October 2016 that the fee level listed for EU undergraduate new entrants in 2017/18 will be the same as Home UK for the subsequent years of their undergraduate degree programme.
For 2017 entry**, students ordinarily resident in England and EU students do 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.
**The UK Government confirmed in October 2016 that the EU undergraduate new entrants in 2017/18 eligible for the tuition fee loan will continue to be eligible for this loan for the duration of their undergraduate degree programme.
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
gov.uk/studentFinance
Moneysavingexpert.com
Northern Ireland
studentfinanceni.co.uk
Scotland
saas.gov.uk/
Wales
studentfinancewales.co.uk
Channel Island Fees
For 2017 entry the LSE provisional tuition fee for new undergraduates ordinarily resident in the £9,250 for the first year, but may rise in line with inflation in subsequent years.
Overseas fees
For 2017 entry, the LSE tuition fee for new overseas (non-EU) undergraduates in 2017 is £18,408 for the first 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.