Programme-related funding


We offer a number of scholarships to postgraduate applicants intending to follow a particular programme of study at MSc or PhD level within one of LSE's centres or academic departments.

See the overview of how to apply

 

Department

Award

Value

More information

Any department with core data science programmes (for example Statistics, Mathematices or Methodology)

LSE PhD Studentship in Data Science

One PhD Studentship  to cover fees plus £19,668 stipend per year for four years.

For PhD applicants to any programme that involves data science or computational social science methods

Any department

LSE PhD Studentships on Inequalities

Three PhD Studentships covering full fees and an annual stipend of £18,000 for four years

Three studentships for PhD study in any department where the research addresses Analysing and Challenging Inequalities

Any department

Sumeet Valrani Scholarship

One PhD scholarship covering tuition fees and living costs for four years

Female candidate ordinarily resident in India

Multiple Departments 

Lee Family PhD Scholarships

PhD Scholarship of  fees & £18k stipend for four years

For applicants from China or Hong Kong for PhD programmes in eligible departments. 

Centre for the Study of Human Rights

Sir Siegmund Warburg

One award of £30,000

For applicants studying on the MSc in Human Rights 

 

Economics

 

Anning Valley Zhao Scholarship

One PhD Studentship covering tuition and providing an annual stipend for four years 

For an applicant from China to study the MRes/ PhD in Economics or the Department of Finance.

 

Economics

Robert C Douglas Scholarship in Economics

One award of £10,000

For applicants who are a national of and currently domiciled in Canada with an offer of full time admission to the MSc Economics

 

Economic History 

 

Alumni and Friends of Economic History at LSE

One PhD Scholarship covering tuition and providing a stipend for four years

Scholarship for the MPhil/ PhD programme in Economic History

Finance 

Anning Valley Zhao Scholarship

One PhD Studentship covering tuition and providing an annual stipend for four years 

For an applicant from China to study the MRes/ PhD in Economics or the Department of Finance.

Finance

Antoine Faure-Grimaud MSc Scholarships

Various amounts, which will be put towards the tuition fees in the first instance

For applicants studying either MSc Finance (Full time) or MSc Finance and Private Equity

 

Finance

 

Sudipto Bhattacharya Scholarship

 

One award covering full fees 

 

For applicants studying either MSc Finance and Economics (Full time) or MSc Finance and Economics (Research)

Government

 

Carsten Stoeher MSc in Government

One award of up to £22,000

For applicants studying Comparative Politics, Conflict Studies, Global Politics and Global Politics (Global Civil Society), Public Policy and Administration, Political Science and Political Economy, Political Theory or Regulation

International Development

Wellcome Award MSc Health and International Development

Full fees and a stipend 

One Wellcome Award for any applicant to the the MSc in Health and International Development

International Development

PIC Master's Studentship Scheme

Two awards of £15,000 each

 

For a Home UK applicant studying an MSc in Health and International  Development with a population specialism

Law

Marchant Foundation LLM Scholarship

 One scholarship of £10,000

For Indian applicants resident in India applying to the full-time LLM. If there are no suitable candidates, those with UK and EU fee status will be considered

Management

Claudio Ciborra Scholarship Fund

One award of up to £5,000 

For any applicant to the MSc Management of Information Systems and Digital Innovation

 

Media and Communications

Rankin Frost Scholarship

One award of £23,520

For an applicant to the MSc in Strategic Communications

Media and Communications

Robert A. Peterson Scholarship

One award covering tuition fees and £14,400 stipend

For an applicant to the MSc in Global Media and Communications (LSE and USC)

 

Philosophy 

 

HS Chau Foundation Award

One PhD Studentship covering tuition and an annual stipend for four years 

For a female applicant to the PhD programme in the Department of  Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method 

School of Public Policy 

 

David and Duncan Clark Scholarship

 

Awards to support study on the MPP and MPA programmes

For applicants who are ordinarily resident in Asia to both programmes 

School of Public Policy

David Helenaik Scholarship

 

Awards to support study on the MPP and MPA programmes

For applicants who are ordinarily resident in Africa to both programmes

School of Public Policy 

The Luksic Scholarships

 

Awards to support study on the MPP and MPA programmes

For Chilean applicants to both programmes 

School of Public Policy

 

Hosh Ibrahim African Scholarship

 

Awards to support study on the MPP and MPA programmes

 

For applicants who are ordinarily resident in Africa to both programmes

School of Public Policy

Peruvian Scholarship for Public Service

Up to six scholarships for tuition fees and living costs

For applicants who are ordinarily resident in Peru. 


Sociology

 

Alf Waddington Scholarship

One award of £8,000

For UK applicants to MSc programme in Sociology

Sociology

Ann Denis Scholarship 

One award of £25,920

For Commonwealth applicants to MSc programme in Sociology

Sociology

Residential Atlantic Fellowship in Social and Economic Equity

Up to 11 awards covering tuition fees and a £19,000 stipend 

For applicants to the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity (Residential Stream with MSc in Inequalities and Social Science)

Social Psychology

Hilde Himmelweit Scholarship

Up to three awards of £2,000

For applicants to study Social and Cultural Psychology, full time

Statistics

LSE PhD Statistics Scholarship

One PhD scholarship covering tuition and an annual stipend for four years

Applicants to the MPhil/PhD in Statistics