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London School of Economics and Political Science

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The LSE

The London School of Economics and Political Science, often called the LSE, is one of the world's major specialist universities in economics and social sciences. It has had perhaps more impact on the shape of the modern political world than any other university institution. As chairman of five trustees, LSE was founded in 1895 by Sidney Webb, after an eccentric Derby slicitor and member of the Fabian society, Henry Hunt Hutchinson, bequethed £10,000 following his death in 1894. It is a constituent college of the University of London.

The LSE is located on Houghton Street in London, off the Aldwych. The school is regarded as a major centre of political debate and includes among its alumni 80 members of the lower and upper houses of the UK government and 30 past or present heads of states. A quarter of all the Nobel prizes awarded in economics have been closely connected with LSE, and the School is also regarded as a pace-maker in the study of international relations, social philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and social policy.

League tables published by British newspapers consistently rank the LSE as one of the top five academic institutions in the country.

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Noted alumni

Heads of State

Other Prominent Alumni

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