English application procedure
The guide below will help you complete the application process quickly and easily
Please read through but feel free to contact us with any questions you may have.
- Read through thoroughly the course outline and any additional information available on the programme for which you are applying.
- Read through the terms and conditions applying to all Language Centre programmes and courses and check the information on cancellations and refunds.
- Use our course and class registration page to find out what places are available.
- You will need to be available to complete the whole course. Please make sure you are available for the duration of the course and that the registration dates for your main programme of study do not overlap. If they do overlap, regretably, we will not be able to accept you on the course.
- Complete the form as fully as possible. Then proceed to upload your supporting documents.
- You will need to upload three documents once you have submitted the application form. The link is on the same page as the application form.
- We need three key documents and we cannot process your application without all of them. Your current language certificate; your offer letter; your offer certificate which is a separate document to your offer letter.
- Our Presessional programme is only available to LSE postgraduate applicants.
- Give a daytime (GMT) telephone number in case we need to contact you to ask you about your application.
- Keep any attachment size to less than 3MB. In some cases, when a form is submitted with files larger than 3MB, the form will not reach us and no error message will be displayed.
- Keep the total size for your attachments to less than 9MB.
- Please be patient and let the form 'submit' once you press the button, do not navigate away too quickly.
- You will receive an on screen confirmation and an email receipt on successful completion.
- Please use 'English' script and try not to cut and paste into the fields.
- Please read our Frequently Asked Questions and Help, especially the section about Secure English Language Tests (SELT) and that you might need a UKVI IELTS.
- We need three key documents and we cannot process your application without all of them. Your current language certificate; Your offer letter; Your offer certificate, which is a separate document to your offer letter.
- In some cases we might contact you to arrange an interview. If so this will be conducted on Zoom or Teams. After this, usually within 1 or 2 days, we will communicate to you via email the result of this interview and either offer you a place or explain why we were not able to this time.
- In most cases we will review your application based on the information you have submitted and be able to communicate to you whether or not we have a place on the course we can offer to you.
- Your offer email will include information on how to accept your offer.
- Once you accept, you will receive confirmation from us of your place.
- At any stage in the process please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have.