London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), established in 1895, is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London. The school specialises in the pure and applied social sciences.

Founded by Fabian Society members Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb, Graham Wallas and George Bernard Shaw, LSE joined the University of London in 1900 and offered its first degree programmes under the auspices of that university in 1901. In 2008, LSE began awarding degrees in its own name. LSE became a university in its own right within the University of London in 2022.

LSE is located in the London Borough of Camden and Westminster, Central London, near the boundary between Covent Garden and Holborn in the area historically known as Clare Market. As of 2023/24, LSE had under 13,000 students, with a majority enroled being postgraduate students and just under two thirds coming from outside the United Kingdom. The university has the sixth-largest endowment of any university in the UK and it had an income of £548.2 million in 2024/25, of which £39.2 million was from research grants.. As of 2025, LSE alumnus W. Arthur Lewis is the only black person to have ever won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.

In 1942, former LSE director William Beveridge authored the Beveridge Report, which laid the groundwork for the establishment of free healthcare in the United Kingdom, a policy then implemented by British prime minister Clement Attlee, who had lectured at the LSE. As of 2025, LSE has been affiliated with 21 Nobel laureates. Provided by Wikipedia