This section allows you to review read-only personal details and programme choices, including your alumni status. This information has been automatically completed using information you have already supplied in your application for admission to the School. If you feel any of this information may be incorrect, please contact the Graduate Admissions Office.

If you have received any scholarships for your education to date, you should provide details.

You can add, edit, or delete additional personal details relating to previous scholarships held for other study and save changes. Click Add to create a new entry.

You can also add if you were in receipt of a contextual offer of admission for your undergraduate study. This only applies to student who studied in the UK. 

This section is to establish your current financial situation.

C.1. Personal Income

Please indicate whether in the last 12 months before your proposed programme at LSE (i.e., October - September) you have been working or studying.

You should indicate as many of these that apply to you, since at different points of this year you may be engaged in different activities. You may be engaged in other activities, such as voluntary work or travel, instead of or as well as working/studying, but there is no need to indicate this here.

If you have been employed at any point during the year and earned an income, please answer yes to having an income stream and the enter the details, you can add the amount in your local currency. If you have held several jobs during the year in question, please list all of them. You can use the add button to create multiple entries.

You will also need to add documentary evidence of the amount you have entered. Examples of this would be your payslip, annual tax return, employment contract. Please label the files carefully when you submit them.

C.2 Household Details and Income

If you live alone (or in a shared house), not with my family or partner and my extended household is not contributing to my studies and I have no dependents, you can answer Yes and move on to the next section.

If you are part of a household that would mean the group of people you ordinarily live with as a family. This could include parents, partner and/or dependents. It would not normally include people you are living with in a flat or house share, unless these people are supporting you and the household financially.

You should list all your household members, and their income, you can add the amount in your local currency.

You will also need to add documentary evidence of the amount you have entered. Examples of this would be your payslip, annual tax return, employment contract. Please label the files carefully when you submit them.

If you expect to receive household support during your studies, you will be asked to provide details in section D.

C.3 Historic Household and Personal Income

This section covers your household and your personal previous incomes for the three years preceding the start of your programme.

There is also the opportunity to add a short description of your income and any significant changes during that period. 

C.4 Undergraduate Loan

Please list any loans you have already taken out to finance your previous or current (if you are currently studying) study, including the academic year in which you took it out, the amount you borrowed, the amount you have outstanding and the period of time you have in which to repay it.

If you took out a loan from the same source for more than one year of your undergraduate degree, there is no need to enter these separately. For example, if you took a loan from Student Finance in the UK, for your undergraduate degree, you need only enter the total debt you have accrued during the duration of your degree (and the repayment period on these can be listed as "30 years").

If you have not taken out loans to finance your previous or current study, please give some information about how you are financing your undergraduate degree, e.g., help from family/household, scholarships, government support. 

This section covers whether you expect to receive contributions from anyone outside your household and whether you have any other sources of personal income, including access to loans or taking on part time work.

D.1 Loan Information

Please tick one of the following in relation to your ability to take out a full or partial loan to support your studies.

If you intend to take out a loan you will be able to enter the amount in both your local currency and GBP. These are mandatory fields that you need to complete in order to move on to the next section.

LSE does not offer loans to students. It does not recommend any particular lending institution and nor does it have any preferential agreements. Loans are a private arrangement between you and a lending institution and are subject to the usual credit and eligibility checks.

D.2 Household Contribution

We need to know whether you will receive any financial support from your household. You may currently be living away from your family/household for a temporary period of time, e.g., for the purposes of studying, but this is not relevant since we require information about the people you ordinarily live with, if they will be providing you with financial support for your programme at LSE. If you are expecting to receive some support from your household, you will need to enter the amount they are going to provide and their relationship to you.

D.3 Outside Household Contribution

Continuing the assessment of any other financial support you have access to for your studies at LSE from anyone outside your household (e.g., grandparent, aunt) for your studies. If yes you will need to the amount they are going to provide and their relationship to you. 

D.4 Other sources of income

Do you have any other personal income sources that will support you during your studies, this may include savings or the sale of assets, such as property or a car, interest from savings or social security benefits. Figures must be given in number format, in £ sterling.

D.5 Financial Support

Have you been applied or intend to apply for any other non-LSE financial support towards the cost of your programme. Please enter the details or explain why you are not able to.

If we offer you an award from the Graduate Support Scheme, proof that you have been unsuccessful with your other application(s) may be requested at our discretion. If you are subsequently successful with another non LSE scholarship application, you must inform us and provide copies of notification letters. 

Careful personal research is the best way to identify sources of financial support which might be applicable to your particular circumstances, but there are a number of websites which provide a good starting point:

www.britishcouncil.org
www.ukcisa.org.uk 
www.acu.ac.uk
www.postgraduatestudentships.co.uk
www.studentcashpoint.co.uk

D.6 Part Time work

Many students will supplement their income by undertaking Part time work whilst studying. There are lots of part time jobs available in London. LSE Careers and vacancies can offer advice on finding part time work once you arrive in London.

The Home Office allows anyone studying in the UK on a student visa to work part-time during the term (up to 20 hours a week) and any number of hours during vacation periods. You should check that you have a visa which allows you to work in the UK before applying for any job. 

The total number of hours is capped at a maximum 600 hours, any paid work undertaken must be allowed by your student visa, if applicable. 

This section summarises the total financing you have entered against the projected expenses of the programme fees plus living costs, and any shortfall between the two.

We have pre-populated the costs associated with your master's programme. The tuition fees are populated based on your first-choice programme and will be amended should you subsequently receive an offer for a programme where the tuition fee is higher or lower.

If no data is populated in the programme costs section (in Fees or Living costs), you will be unable to continue with your application. Please Contact the Financial Support Office who will be able to resolve the situation and enable you to continue with your application.

For living costs, we use a figure of £1,500 per month. More about living costs and how to budget during your time at LSE. The School cannot fund the costs of bringing dependants to London.

By deducting the amount you have secured, or hope to secure, from the costs associated with your programme, the system will calculate the Current assessed funding shortfall.

You are then invited to enter the minimum amount of financial support that will allow you to take up your place at LSE - enter the figure in GBP and do not include pence. If there is a difference between the Current assessed funding shortfall and your minimum amount, you must tick one of the boxes to state the reason AND provide additional information in the text box. 

You are required to write a personal statement, of no more than 8,000 characters including spaces, explaining why you have applied for financial support.

Submitting a statement is necessary for consideration for all LSE funding.

We recommend that you cover the following in your statement; details about your background, life experiences and why you are applying for funding,  your academic interests, outline your career objectives and demonstrate how your studies at LSE will contribute to these objectives, if applicable, explain how it will contribute to the future development of your country.

If you wish to write the statement in a word processing application such as Microsoft Word, you may copy and paste into the online application. When pasting from a word processing application, please ensure you do not inadvertently paste extra blank lines or characters at the end of the document, as these will count towards your character count. 8,000 characters should be in the region of 1,100 words but this is a guideline only. If you can get the system to accept your statement as within the character limit, it doesn't matter how many words it has.

You can also add details of your future plans and confirmation of your agreement to be considered for all LSE funding that you are eligible for. 

Some of our scholarships for overseas students require the award holder to return to their country of permanent residence after the tenure of their award is finished. This is made clear in the information about the award on the relevant webpage. If you do not indicate your destination after graduation on your application, this will mean that you are not considered for certain country specific scholarships even though you are a national of that country and/or domiciled there.

In this section, you are required to confirm that the information you are submitting is true and correct, to the best of your knowledge, that you are happy for us to share this information to scholarship donors, and that you understand that you will be asked to provide supporting documentation in the event that an award is offered to you.

Once you have completed all the sections your summary page will show a green tick next to each section. You can go back in and edit any of the sections by clicking edit on the right-hand side of the page. 

You submit your application by clicking Submit Application button.

After you have submitted your application, you will not be able to make any changes, but you will be able to view what you have submitted.

When you have submitted your application, you will see an acknowledgement screen confirming that your application has been submitted.

The LSE Graduate Financial Support Application will be available until the deadline listed on the How to apply for a scholarship page. After this date, applicants who have started but not finished an application will have no opportunity to finish it, and applicants who have not started an application will not be able to apply. You are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as funds are limited.

If you hold an offer of admission and submit the Graduate Financial Support Application you will normally receive an outcome decision on your eligibility for a Graduate Support Scheme (GSS) Award after 24 hours via the Graduate Applicant Portal. 

Graduate Support Scheme Awards

If you are offered a GSS award this will be shown via the Graduate Applicant Portal.  You will not normally be considered for any further funding from LSE, as a GSS award will cover 100% of your funding shortfall as calculated by the Graduate Financial Support application.

If your financial circumstances, fee status, mode of study or programme of study changes, any award will be reviewed and may be amended or withdrawn.

Further information on the terms and conditions attached to all Graduate Support Scheme awards: Graduate Support Scheme award conditions

Other LSE awards

LSE does not have sufficient funding to be able to support as many applicants as we would like with awards from the Graduate Support Scheme. Competition for scholarships at Masters level is very strong.

If you are not offered a GSS award, you will be considered for all the other LSE awards for which you are eligible, (selection will based on your response to question F.2), using the information you provided on the Graduate Financial Support Application. 

We will only contact successful applicants regarding the outcome of these awards. Successful applicants will be contacted throughout May and June as decisions are made, we hope to have notified all successful applicants by the end of July 2026. If you have not heard from the Financial Support Office by 31 July 2026, then unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful. 

In the application you will see ⓘ - these provide additional guidance information. 

Each section will only be saved when you have completed the section. Evident through the "green" tick when you return to the summary page

You can use the option save for later, if you want to complete the form in sections. the hyperlink must be used otherwise contents keyed in will be lost. 

Some sections are mandatory, you will not be able to progress your application if any of the sections are left blank.

To submit your application, you will need to provide supporting documentary evidence.

Example of those documents could be the following, depending on your current situation

• Payslips or annual tax returns (for personal income).
• Employment contracts (if applicable).
• Evidence of household income (e.g., payslips, tax returns for household members).
• Loan statements (for any student loans, including amount borrowed and outstanding balance).
• Scholarship award letters (for previous or current scholarships).
• Evidence of other financial support (e.g., letters confirming contributions from family or other sources).
• Supporting documents for savings, assets, or benefits (e.g., bank statements, proof of sale).

We understand that you may not be able to provide formal documents confirming your income. In this case, please submit a written statement signed and dated by the household member responsible for the income covering the following:

• Nature of the business or work
• How income is earned
• Average annual income
• How long the activity has been operating
• Confirmation that no formal records exist

You should also submit indirect evidence of the income from the business you have included in your application. Examples of this would be, bank records showing regular deposits / cash flow, invoices / receipts (even informal ones), records of business purchases or expenses, confirmation letter from a third party (e.g. client, local authority, or business association) verifying the nature of the work and approximate income.

When completing the application, you must click Save to store information before moving to the next section. After clicking Save any errors may be hightlighted related to the format of the data entered or any missing fields. Address those errors, click Save again and then Continue to proceed. 

When completing information in tables, please use Add Row(s) to add another row to a table. To delete a row, check the box to the left of the row then click Delete Row(s). 

If you have any queries regarding completion of the form you can Contact the Financial Support Office

Additional Support information can be found here: 

Guide to services provided by LSE for disabled students 

Disabled Students' Allowances (Home students only)