LSE is one of the world’s leading social science universities. We have committed to a strategy that will build on our strengths, address challenges and maintain our worldwide reputation for excellence. We have already achieved many of the goals set out in our 2014 review, including:
LSE was founded in 1895 to create and share knowledge addressing major social challenges and to shape a better world. The School works through research, education, creative intellectual debate and public engagement. Our mission is to advance knowledge in social science and a range of related fields so as to inform public policy, economic decision-making, and social welfare both nationally and globally. This means nurturing creative thought and intellectual exploration and educating students from all backgrounds and around the world to be critical thinkers and skilled professionals who work for the betterment of society.
LSE’s mission charges the School with making a positive difference to the world through bringing research-based knowledge to public problems and educating students with the capacity to lead in solving those problems. Our ambition is to excel in every aspect of this mission. Through our teaching, our research, and the work of our alumni we will make the effort ‘to know the causes of things’ a force for good. Right now, in the midst of rapid change in higher education, a crucial priority is to ensure that our students have the benefit of great teaching and a rewarding educational experience. We are at work on this in all we do, from building new state of the art classrooms to improving student support systems and making sure excellence in teaching is rewarded. Outstanding education must be as central to LSE as brilliant research and exciting public engagement.
The LSE’s future depends on enhancing our quality, our innovation, and our intellectual distinctiveness as a leading institution for social science. At LSE social science is central to education and research in public policy and law; in management, accounting and finance; in international development and social policy. It is also the focus of pathbreaking research. To sustain this in the midst of change and challenges, we pursue a strategy that builds on the School’s core identity: the public mission and openness inaugurated by its founders, its remarkably global character, and its commitment to making knowledge matter in practical affairs.
Our strategy guides action in a context we cannot completely control. We can see that new technologies matter, but it is not yet clear exactly how they will change higher education. We know that students need confidence that their education prepares them for future jobs, but careers are changing rapidly. To perform well amid these changes we need to redouble our commitment to quality throughout the School – in the faculty we recruit, in our research and teaching, in the delivery of basic services like IT, the Estate, the Library, job placement, and student life. We need to renew our commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. We also need to innovate, improving the rooms in which we teach, redesigning courses, advancing research methodology, developing new centres of excellence like the International Institute on Inequalities or the Marshall Institute on Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship.
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World Class institute, was honoured to attend lectures their. Was a life time experience. Brand LSE remains the best to me...
By christine luigi (Jun, 2018) |
Top university in the world, with great reputation in economics and social studies disciplines. The teaching quality is not bad, and the fellow students are competitive. As a student you can feel pressure in every inch of the ground in the campus.
The public resources (the library, the study spaces, the PC, the books, the classrooms) are extremely limited, so sometimes one must fight or wait for a place in the library studying area.
By Guangda Dong (Apr, 2018) |
Terrible university. Notice the high 5 star review are mostly written by those who have not studied there. Having done an undergrad here, let me tell you I have first hand experience of this place. Lecturers shockingly lack the ability to lecture, teachers are uninspiring and mostly unhelpful. Graduates leave the university in the same state of confusion they entered; the only difference is the £27k+ debt they have after leaving. Economics students and professors here become increasingly arrogant thinking they understand economics, but in reality, do not know a thing about the real world and are completely broke.
By Harry (Mar, 2018) |
I feel honored and proud to have studied at this world renowned institution. It goes without saying that LSE is recommended to anyone wanting to receive a first class education and learn from the very best.
By Curtis Goldsby (Nov, 2017) |
Top institute in the world , great for studies of social sciences, probably one of the best infrastructure in the world....
By dibyanshu shekhar dey (Aug, 2017) |
I found lecturer are well grounded in their field of expertise . and they are very supportive of the student. i enjoyed my short course at LSE..
By Abdullah Yousuf (Aug, 2017) |
One of the best reputed and well known University of the world for economics and social science. A lot scholars in economics have studied here. The institute does have well curriculum courses and brilliant research courses.
By Probir Kumar Goshwami (Aug, 2017) |
The most important experience that one can have in the LSE is its international student community. Great educational institutions and great people to be surrounded by.
By Ruya (Aug, 2016) |
LSE is heaven for a curious mind. It answers and also brings you to answer the world's biggest social science problems. Your peers come from across the globe and are future investment bankers, political elites and business leaders in their own field. Endless opportunities, endless possibilities.
By Jacob (Aug, 2016) |
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Studying in London has been a game-changer for my child; the dedicated staff and enriching curriculum have truly propelled their growth and confidence.
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