London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a leading public university in the UK capital, renowned worldwide for its leadership in the social sciences. Known for its excellence in both research and teaching, the university and its graduates make a significant contribution to global policy and debate.
Ranked 35th overall in the QS World University Rankings® 2015/16, LSE is recognized among the world’s very best across a range of academic disciplines. In the 2016 edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject, LSE ranks within the global top 10 for social policy, development studies, politics, communication and media studies, anthropology, accounting and finance, geography, history, philosophy, law, economics, and business and management studies – with positions in the top 50 for psychology and statistics.
ranking by QS
| QS World University Rankings | 35 |
| QS WU Rankings by Subject:Social Sciences and Management | 2 |
| Graduate Employability Ranking | 54 |
ranking by US News
| Best Global Universities Ranking | 244= |
| Best Global Universities in Europe | 111= |
| Country Rank | 27 |
| Arts and Humanities | 52 |
| economics and business | 9 |
| Psychiatry/Psychology | 176 |
| Social Sciences and Public Health | 42 |
ranking by THE
| World University Rankings | 25= |
| 25= | |
| 23 | |
| Arts and Humanities | 56 |
| social sciences | 10 |
| world raputation rankings 2017 | 20 |
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is one of the foremost social science universities in the world, specialising in a wide range of social science disciplines, including economics, politics, sociology, law and anthropology.
It was founded in the late 1800s by Fabian Society members Beatrice and Sidney Webb, Graham Wallas and George Bernard Shaw for the purpose of bettering society, ‘by studying poverty issues and analysing inequalities.’
The philosopher Bertrand Russell taught there in 1895-96 and 1937-38, helping to define the LSE’s ethos. In 1900, it joined the federal University of London and has remained a member ever since, rapidly expanding to its current position near Aldwych in central London, where King George V laid the first stone of its 'Old Building' in 1920.
The LSE boasts associations with 16 Nobel Prize winners and counts 37 past or present world leaders among its alumni. Bertrand Russell received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950, recognising his writing on ‘humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought’, while Mick Jagger attended as an undergraduate in 1961, dropping out after a year to form the Rolling Stones.
British Prime Minister Clement Attlee was an assistant lecturer there in 1912 and one of the first teachers in the new Department of Social Science and Administration. Lord Beveridge separately was appointed director of the LSE in 1937, later authoring the famous Beveridge Report, a cornerstone of the UK’s welfare state.
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