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| Motto | Latin: Rerum cognoscere causas | ||||||||||||
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Motto in English | To understand the causes of things | ||||||||||||
| Type | Public research university | ||||||||||||
| Established | 1895 | ||||||||||||
| Endowment | £229.3 million (2023)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Budget | £466.1 million (2022–23)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Chair | Susan Liautaud[2] | ||||||||||||
| Chancellor | The Princess Royal (as Chancellor of the University of London) | ||||||||||||
| Visitor | Penny Mordaunt (as Lord President of the Council ex officio) | ||||||||||||
Academic staff | 1,830 (2021/22)[3] | ||||||||||||
Administrative staff | 2,260 (2021/22)[3] | ||||||||||||
| Students | 12,975 (2021/22)[4] | ||||||||||||
| Undergraduates | 5,575 (2021/22)[4] | ||||||||||||
| Postgraduates | 7,400 (2021/22)[4] | ||||||||||||
| Location | London , England 51°30′50″N 0°07′00″W / 51.51389°N 0.11667°W | ||||||||||||
| Campus | Urban | ||||||||||||
| President and Vice-Chancellor[a] | Larry Kramer | ||||||||||||
| Newspaper | The Beaver | ||||||||||||
| Colours | Purple, black and gold[5] | ||||||||||||
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| Mascot | Beaver | ||||||||||||
| Website | lse | ||||||||||||
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The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London. Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb, Graham Wallas and George Bernard Shaw, LSE joined the University of London in 1900 and established its first degree courses under the auspices of the university in 1901.[6] LSE began awarding its degrees in its own name in 2008,[7] prior to which it awarded degrees of the University of London. It became a university in its own right within the University of London in 2022.[8]
LSE is located in the London Borough of Camden and Westminster, Central London, near the boundary between Covent Garden and Holborn. The area is historically known as Clare Market. LSE has more than 11,000 students, just under seventy percent of whom come from outside the UK, and 3,300 staff.[9] The university has the sixth-largest endowment of any university in the UK and in 2022/23, it had an income of £466.1 million of which £39.6 million was from research grants.[1] Despite its name, the school is organised into 25 academic departments and institutes which conduct teaching and research across a range of pure and applied social sciences.[9]
LSE is a member of the Russell Group, Association of Commonwealth Universities and the European University Association, and is typically considered part of the "golden triangle" of research universities in the south east of England. The LSE also forms part of CIVICA – The European University of Social Sciences, a network of eight European universities focused on research in the social sciences.[10] In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework, the school had the third highest grade point average (joint with Cambridge).[11]
LSE alumni and faculty include 55 past or present heads of state or government and 18 Nobel laureates. As of 2017, 13 out of 49 of all Nobel Memorial Prizes in Economics had been awarded to LSE alumni, current staff, or former staff. LSE alumni and faculty have also won 3 Nobel Peace Prizes and 2 Nobel Prizes in Literature.[12][13] The university has educated the most billionaires (11) of any European university according to a 2014 global census of US dollar billionaires.[14]
- ^ a b c "Financial Statements for the Year to 31 July 2023" (PDF). London School of Economics. p. 55. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 December 2023. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
- ^ "Council". London School of Economics. Archived from the original on 2 August 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- ^ a b "Who's working in HE?". www.hesa.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 29 July 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
- ^ a b c "Where do HE students study? | HESA". www.hesa.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 3 November 2022. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
- ^ "Woolen Scarf with Crest Embroidery". LSE Students' Union. Archived from the original on 16 January 2017. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
- ^ "Beginnings : LSE : The Founders" (PDF). Lse.ac.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 December 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
- ^ "Academic dress". The London School of Economics and Political Science. Archived from the original on 21 May 2021. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
Since the granting of its own degree awarding powers in July 2008, students have worn LSE-specific gowns
- ^ Susan Liautaud. "Chair's Blog: Summer Term 2022". Archived from the original on 25 January 2023. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
- ^ a b "About LSE – Key facts". London School of Economics. Archived from the original on 30 November 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
- ^ "LSE becomes the eighth full member of CIVICA – The European University of Social Sciences" (Press release). CIVICA. 7 July 2020. Archived from the original on 22 October 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
- ^ Simon Baker; Jack Grove. "REF 2021: Golden triangle looks set to lose funding share". Times Higher Education. Archived from the original on 30 January 2023. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
- ^ "LSE People: Nobel Prize Winners". London School of Economics and Political Science. Archived from the original on 23 May 2021. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
- ^ "All Prizes in Economic Sciences". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media. Archived from the original on 10 August 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
- ^ "Where do billionaires go to university?". BBC News. Archived from the original on 27 December 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
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