Prospective Students
Information on our Undergraduate, Masters and PhD programmes
We advise prospective student members of our Department to follow the links provided below to the School's Admissions webpages for the most up-to-date programme information.
MSc Mathematics and Computation (previous title MSc Applicable Mathematics)
Link to Graduate Admissions information
MSc Financial Mathematics
Link to Graduate Admissions information
MSc Operations Research & Analytics
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
Operations Research
- Integer programming
- Combinatorial optimisation
- Optimisation in discrete random systems
- Applications & algorithms
- And more: see
Financial Mathematics & Control Theory
- Market structure & equilibrium theory
- Stochastic control & optimisation
- Stochastic portfolio theory
- Systemic risk
- Principal-agent problems
- And more: see
Game Theory
- Algorithmic game theory
- Information economics
- Equilibrium structure & existence
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Visiting Research Student (VRS) status at LSE allows research students at other universities to spend up to one academic session at the School at the discretion of the department concerned.
We welcome applications that complement the academic interests of faculty members in the Department and we recommend that you investigate their research interests before contacting Emily Jackson (E.Jackson2@lse.ac.uk) for more information.
All VRS must have the support of a Faculty member within the Department of Mathematics before applying to the VRS programme.
Students interested in visiting the Department of Mathematics should follow the normal application procedure outlined for the PhD/MPhil programme, but use the application code for visiting status - G1EM: Visiting Research Student in Mathematics.
Application code: G1EM
Duration: from one term up to one academic year
Fees: From 2024/25 the fee for Visiting Research Students will be calculated on a weekly basis - Home and Overseas charged at £97 per week.
We advise you to check the fees table for more details.