The London School of Economics and Political Science

Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7405 768
Website: www.lse.ac.uk

About LSE

LSE was founded in 1894 and has grown to become one of the foremost social science universities in the world, ranked alongside Harvard, UC Berkeley and Stanford.
A specialist university with an international intake, LSE's reach extends from its central London campus to around the world.

• The School has a cosmopolitan student body, with around 9,000 students from 140 countries
• It also has a cosmopolitan staff of just over 3,000, with about 45 per cent drawn from countries outside the UK
• Over 100 languages are spoken on LSE's campus
• An influential network of 96,000 LSE alumni extends to 199 countries

Rankings

• THE 2009: 67
• THE 2008: 66
• THE 2007: 59
• SJT 2009: 201-302
• SJT 2008: 201-302
• SJT 2007: 151-202

International partnerships

LSE has established a global network with a small number of high quality universities across the world. There are multi-faceted institutional partnerships with Columbia University (New York), Sciences Po (Paris), Peking University (Beijing), the National University of Singapore and - since May 2010 - the University of Cape Town.