London School of Economics Facts for Kids

32 Lincoln's Inn Fields houses the Department of Economics and the International Growth Centre at LSE

The London School of Economics and Political Science (more commonly London School of Economics or LSE) is a college of the University of London in Westminster. The college opened in 1895. It joined the University of London in 1900. Today it is one of the leading universities for Law, Economics and Political Sciences. QS ranked it as the second best university in the world for social science in 2013.

Some of the most notable people who attended the college are:

It is a member of the Russell Group. In 2011 17,654 people applied for 1,271 undergraduate places. This means there were 13.8 applicants for every place. Over half of LSE's students are postgraduates. 16 Nobel Prize winners have been LSE students or staff. It has the highest percentage of students from another country in the world and 46% of staff are from other countries.

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Beatrice and Sidney Webb
Friedrich Hayek, who taught at LSE during the 1930s and 1940s
Stonework featuring the initials of LSE
Nemat Shafik is the director of LSE
Old Building
Centre Building, opened in 2019
32 Lincoln's Inn Fields houses the Department of Economics and the International Growth Centre
The New Academic Building houses the LSE Law School
The 16th-century Old Curiosity Shop is now owned (freehold) and managed by the LSE
LSE Campus as viewed from the terrace of the New Academic Building in January 2018, showing the Centre Building's redevelopment and the demolition of 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields
Sir John Ashworth
Craig Calhoun
St Clement's Building
Houghton Street is the centre of the LSE campus
The interior of the main LSE library, designed by Norman Foster
Nelson Mandela arriving at LSE in 2000 to deliver a public lecture
LSE students revising in Lincoln's Inn Fields
The logo of LSE Students' Union
Northumberland House
Grosvenor House Studios
Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1945–1951)
Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya (1964–1978)
Mwai Kibaki, 3rd President of Kenya (2002–2013)
Romano Prodi, Prime Minister of Italy (1996–1998; 2006–2008) and President of the European Commission (1999–2004)
B. R. Ambedkar, Member of the Constituent Assembly of India (1946–1950) and Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constitution of India (1947–1950)
Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada (1968–1979; 1980–1984)
Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore (1959–1990)
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark (1972–present)
Kim Campbell, Prime Minister of Canada (1993)
Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of Germany (1930–1932)
Karl Popper, reader in logic and scientific method at the LSE
George Soros, billionaire investor, philanthropist and political activist
Tsai Ing-wen, President of Taiwan (2016–present)
Tony Fernandes, chief executive officer of the low-cost carrier, AirAsia
Carlo Cottarelli, Director of the Financial Bureau of the International Monetary Fund (2008–2013)
Kamisese Mara, founding father and Prime Minister of Fiji (1970–1987; 1987–1992)
Sher Bahadur Deuba, Prime Minister of Nepal (1995–1997; 2001–2002; 2004–2005; 2017–2018; 2021–present)
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (2019–present)
Anthony Kennedy, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1988–2018), spent a year at the LSE.
Leonid Hurwicz – Nobel laureate in Economics – studied at LSE with Nicholas Kaldor and Hayek
Ronald Coase – awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1991
Christopher A. Pissarides – awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2010 – currently Regius Professor of Economics at LSE
Amartya Sen, Indian economist, former professor and Nobel laureate
Juan Manuel Santos, former president of Colombia and recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize

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