LSE was founded in 1895 and has grown to become one of the foremost social science universities in the world, ranked alongside Harvard, UC Berkeley and Stanford.
A specialist university with an international intake, LSE’s reach extends from its central London campus to around the world.
The School has a cosmopolitan student body, with around 9,000 students from 140 countries
It also has a cosmopolitan staff of just over 3,000, with about 45 per cent drawn from countries outside the UK
Over 100 languages are spoken on LSE’s campus
An influential network of over 97,500 LSE alumni spans the world, covering over 190 countries with more than 70 active alumni groups