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Sunday Times ranking 3 (3)

Teaching excellence 87.5%

Student satisfaction 73.5%

Head teacher ranking 6 (5)

Peer ranking 5 (3)

Research quality 89.7%

A/AS-level points 474

A-levels for entry 72%

Unemployment 5.4%

Firsts and 2:1s 74.6%

Student/staff ratio 13:1

Dropout rate 3% (5%)

World ranking 17

Undergraduates 3,856 (4)

Postgraduates 4,002 (948)

Teaching staff 454

Applications/places 17,457/1,301; 13.4:1 (+12.7%)

Clearing entry 0%

Bursaries 28%: up to £2,500

Scholarships None

EU/overseas 12.5%/40.7%

Mature 6.4%

State school 59%

Lowest social classes 18%

Low-participation areas 8%

Live in 49% (100%) £91-£140

There are many who have achieved in the world of politics, business or academia who can trace their success to the years they spent at the LSE. Inspired by tuition from academics who are often familiar faces, if not household names, LSE students take their first steps to greatness in the debating chambers, cafes, bars – and even occasionally in their seminar groups – during three or four years of studying.

The LSE enjoys an international reputation in its specialist field. Its director Sir Howard Davies calls it the “leading social science institution in the world”. There is no “probably” about it. Politics and economics only tells half the story. Its preeminence in the social sciences extends to anthropology, sociology and social policy, social psychology, management, law and employment relations. Students are expected to take a subject outside of their main specialism to ensure breadth of study. The school is doing its bit in terms of broadening horizons through extending its academic partnerships with a network of internationally recognised partners in Asia, Europe and North America.

Clearing was bypassed this year, as it is most years. Offers that average AAB were all met and in many cases exceeded as an average entry attainment of 474 Ucas points demonstrates (the equivalent of almost AAAA at A-level or AAA, plus BB at AS-level). With more than 13 applications per place, the LSE can choose the best, but the steady rise in the ratio of applications to places might level off once new teaching space opens next September.

The management and law departments will move into a huge former government building between Kingsway and Lincoln’s Inn Fields. At a stroke this will almost double teaching space ahead of an anticipated expansion of numbers to about 9,000 full-time students by 2012.

UK-domiciled students make up just under half the intake; those recruited from Asia (mainly the Far East) account for 28.1%, with the remainder drawn from the rest of Europe (12.3%), North America (7.2%) and Africa (2.5%). Postgraduates outnumber first degree students. All benefit from a research and teaching profile which means the LSE has never finished outside our top four and is a mainstay of any world top 20.

For all the fact that the LSE could fill its places several times over, it works hard to diversify its intake. It only just misses funding council benchmarks for student recruitment from working class backgrounds and from areas where few go into higher education. This is despite missing the target by a huge margin for recruitment from state schools, with more than 40% of the intake educated privately.

LSE students are at the heart of everything that London can offer. For many, being at the heart of everything is a sensation they get used to for the rest of their lives.

Open days Contact the school.

Student view Fadhill Bakeer Markar, students’ union president:

USP Most of our students are international.

Worst feature We’re not a campus-based university, which means you can make the most of central London.

Location LSE touches every area of London.

Social scene Expect the best, this is London.

Rated excellent (11) Anthropology; business and management; communication and media studies; economics; history; law; maths, statistics and operational research; philosophy; politics; psychology; social policy and administration.

Degree of student satisfaction 73.5%

Management 77.0; Economics 76.3; History and Archeology 75.9; Politics 74.7; Human and Social Geography 71.1; Finance and Accounting 70.7; Mathematical Sciences 69.5; Sociology, Social Policy and Anthropology 69.4

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