London School of Economics and Political Science

Overview

London School of Economics and Political Science

The London School of Economics and Political Science (popularly the London School of Economics or LSE) is a public research university situated in London, England. It was established in 1895 by the Fabian Society and became a member institution of the federal University of London. LSE is one of the top universities in London and is considered among the best universities worldwide.

London School of Economics and Political Science Key Statistics

The school comprises nine departments and a language center. It offers over 140 M.Sc. programs, 30 B.Sc. programs, 4 B.A. programs, 35 Ph.D. programs, and more. The top courses of LSE include anthropology, criminology, social psychology, sociology, social policy, and international relations.

LSE has 12,050 students, 5,160 of whom are enrolled in undergraduate courses and 6,895 in postgraduate programs. It employs 1,725 academic staff and 2,515 administrative staff.

The major library of LSE provides access to over 4 million print volumes, 60,000 online journals, and 29,000 electronic books. The school houses the Shaw Library and five subject-specific libraries. It also owns Sir John Soane's Museum.

Other London School of Economics and Political Science key statistics include its distinguished alumni members comprising 55 past or present heads of state or government, 18 Nobel laureates, and 11 billionaires.

London School of Economics and Political Science Research

In the U.K. 's 2014 Research Excellence Framework, LSE was ranked third by cumulative grade point average. It had an income of £31.8 million from research grants in 2020.

The university's top three research fields are medicine, economics, and business. Its researchers have published in publications like Social Science Research Network, The Lancet, and Research Papers in Economics. Its researchers had been invited to attend and/or present papers at international conferences such as Neural Information Processing System, Economics and Computation, and the International Conference on Cloud Computing.

The most cited publication from the London School of Economics and Political Science research is Bollen et al.'s book chapter, "Structural equation models," in The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology (Box-Steffensmeier et al. 2008). It has received a total of 35,483 citations to date. The second most cited paper is Arellano and Bond's (1991) “Some tests of specification for panel data: Monte Carlo evidence and an application to employment equations,” published in The Review of Economic Studies. It has received a total of 35,114 citations. The university’s third most cited paper is Lozano et al.'s (2012) “Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010,” published in The Lancet. It has received 14,241 citations so far.

Its research centers include the Centre for the analysis of social exclusion, the Centre for Macroeconomics, the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, the Centre for Economic Performance, LSE Health and Social Care, and the Financial Markets Group.