What is London School of Economics?
[[image:London school of economics logo with name.svg|thumb|right]] [[File:The Land Registry Offices, Lincoln Inn Fields.jpg|thumb|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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/news/archives/2013/09/QSrankings.aspx |title=LSE's website |access-date=2013-11-03 |archive-date=2013-09-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130913000153/http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/news/archives/2013/09/QSrankings.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> Some of the most notable people who attended the college are: * [[Bertrand Russell]] * [[Ed Miliband]] * [[John Fitzgerald Kennedy]] * [[John Richard Hicks]] * [[Friedrich August von Hayek]] * [[George Bernard Shaw]] * [[Mick Jagger]] * [[Monica Lewinsky]] 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 [[Postgraduate education|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.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/may/10/universityguide-london-school-economics-political-science ''University guide 2016: London School of Economics and Political Science''] 24 May 2015 [[The Guardian]]</ref> {{Commonscat|London School of Economics}} ==References== {{reflist}} {{Universities in the United Kingdom}} {{authority control}} [[Category:1895