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=== Admissions ===
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|+UCAS Admission Statistics
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!2024
!2023
!2022
!2021
!2020
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| '''Applications'''{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme}}<ref name=UCASEoC>{{cite web |title=UCAS Undergraduate Sector-Level End of Cycle Data Resources 2024 |url=https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/ucas-undergraduate-end-cycle-data-resources-2024 |at=Show me... Domicile by Provider |website=ucas.com |date=December 2024 |publisher=UCAS |access-date=7 February 2025}}</ref>
| 28,195
| 26,240
| 26,625
| 25,845
| 22,115
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| '''Accepted'''{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme}}<ref name=UCASEoC/>
| 1,945
| 1,815
| 2,150
| 1,715
| 2,245
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| '''Applications/Accepted Ratio'''{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme}}
| 14.5
| 14.5
| 12.4
| 15.1
| 9.9
|-
| '''Offer Rate (%)'''{{efn-lg|name=ukjune}}<ref name="UCAS Offer Rate">{{cite web|title=2024 entry UCAS Undergraduate reports by sex, area background, and ethnic group|date=7 February 2025|url=https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/ucas-undergraduate-end-cycle-data-resources-2024/2024-entry-ucas-undergraduate-reports-sex-area-background-and-ethnic-group|publisher=[[UCAS]]|access-date=7 February 2025}}</ref>
| 21.0
| 20.6
| 26.1
| 21.9
| 36.5
|-
| '''[[UCAS Tariff|Average Entry Tariff]]'''<ref name="CUG Entry">{{Cite web | url=https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?tabletype=full-table&sortby=entry-standards | title=University League Tables entry standards 2024 | work=The Complete University Guide | access-date=7 June 2023 }}</ref>
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| 195
| 193
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{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme|Main scheme applications, International and UK}}
{{efn-lg|name=ukjune|UK domiciled applicants}}
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|+ class="nowrap" |HESA Student Body Composition (2023/24)
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!Domicile<ref name="Table 1">{{cite web|url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-1|title=HE student enrolments by HE provider, permanent address, level of study, mode of study, entrant marker, sex and academic year|publisher=[[Higher Education Statistics Agency|HESA]]|access-date=3 April 2025}}</ref> and Ethnicity<ref name="HESA ethnicity">{{cite web|url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/whos-in-he/characteristics|title=Who's studying in HE?: Personal characteristics|date=3 April 2025|publisher=[[Higher Education Statistics Agency|HESA]]|access-date=3 April 2025}}</ref>
! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total
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|[[White people in the United Kingdom|British White]]{{efn|Not be confused solely with [[White British]]}}
|align=right| {{bartable|16|%|2||background:red}}
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|[[Classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom#Collective terms for minority ethnic groups|British Ethnic Minorities]]{{efn|Includes those who indicate that they identify as [[British Asian|Asian]], [[Black British people|Black]], [[Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)|Mixed Heritage]], [[British Arabs|Arab]] or any other ethnicity except White.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|20|%|2||background:green}}
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|[[European Union|International EU]]
|align=right| {{bartable|13|%|2||background:blue}}
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|[[International students in the United Kingdom|International Non-EU]]
|align=right| {{bartable|51|%|2||background:gray}}
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! colspan="4" data-sort-type=number |Undergraduate [[Widening participation|Widening Participation]] Indicators<ref name="Table 1"/><ref name="Times25">{{cite web |date=24 September 2024 |title=Good University Guide: Social Inclusion Ranking |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk-university-rankings/league-table |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref>
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|[[Feminism in the United Kingdom#Education|Female]]
|align=right| {{bartable|53|%|2||background:purple}}
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|[[Private schools in the United Kingdom|Independent School]]
|align=right| {{bartable|26|%|2||background:orange}}
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|Low Participation Areas{{efn|Calculated from the Polar4 measure, using Quintile1, in England and Wales. Calculated from the [[Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation]] (SIMD) measure, using SIMD20, in Scotland.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|7|%|2||background:black}}
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In 2024, The London School of Economics received 28,000 applications for roughly 1,850 undergraduate places or 15 applicants per place.<ref name="Applications">{{cite web |title=LSE Undergraduate |url=https://www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse/Undergraduate/Prospective-Students/How-to-Apply/entry-requirements |access-date=18 September 2024}}</ref> All undergraduate applications, including international applications, are made through [[UCAS]].<ref name="Applications" /> LSE had the 8th highest average entry qualification for undergraduates of any UK university in 2021–22, with new students averaging 195 [[UCAS Tariff|UCAS points]], equivalent to just over AAAA in [[GCE Advanced Level (United Kingdom)|A-level]] grades.<ref name="CUG Entry"/> The university gave offers of admission to roughly 12.2% of its undergraduate applicants in 2023, one of the lowest offer rates across the UK. Bsc Economics is the most competitive undergraduate course at the LSE with over 4000 applications for just over 200 places. LLB in Laws comes second with 2600 applications for just over 170 places.<ref>{{cite news|title=Cambridge to scrap 'unjust' state school targets|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/11/cambridge-to-scrap-state-school-targets/|publisher=The Telegraph|access-date=11 March 2024|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240331190103/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/11/cambridge-to-scrap-state-school-targets/|archive-date=31 March 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=LSE Applications, Offers and Entrants |url=https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/lseplanningdivision/viz/ApplicationsOffersandEntrants/About |access-date=2024-06-26 |website=public.tableau.com}}</ref>

Prospective Postgraduate students applying to the LSE are required to have a first or upper second Class UK [[honours degree]], or its foreign equivalent, for master's degrees, while direct entry to the MPhil/PhD programme requires a UK taught master's with merit, or foreign equivalent. Admission to the diploma requires a UK degree or equivalent plus relevant experience.<ref>{{cite web|title=Entry requirements|url=https://www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse/Graduate/Prospective-students/Entry-requirements|access-date=27 May 2021|publisher=London School of Economics|archive-date=27 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210527104112/https://www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse/Graduate/Prospective-students/Entry-requirements|url-status=live}}</ref> The intake to applications ratio for postgraduate degree programmes is very competitive; the MSc Financial Mathematics had a ratio of just over 4% in 2016.<ref>{{cite web|title=MSc Financial Mathematics|url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/study/graduate/taughtProgrammes2017/MScFinancialMathematics.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161126091038/http://www.lse.ac.uk/study/graduate/taughtProgrammes2017/MScFinancialMathematics.aspx|archive-date=26 November 2016|access-date=15 January 2017|publisher=London School of Economics|quote=Intake/applications in 2016: 26/623}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=MSc Political Economy of Europe|url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/study/graduate/taughtProgrammes2017/MScPoliticalEconomyOfEurope.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308175137/http://www.lse.ac.uk/study/graduate/taughtProgrammes2017/MScPoliticalEconomyOfEurope.aspx|archive-date=8 March 2017|access-date=15 January 2017|publisher=London School of Economics|quote=Intake/applications in 2016: 83/208}}</ref>

31.6% of LSE's undergraduates are [[Independent school (United Kingdom)|privately educated]], the 9th highest proportion amongst mainstream British universities.<ref>{{cite web|title=Widening participation: UK Performance Indicators 2016/17|url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/01-02-2018/widening-participation-tables|website=hesa.ac.uk|publisher=Higher Education Statistics Authority|access-date=1 February 2018|archive-date=27 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027015313/https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/01-02-2018/widening-participation-tables|url-status=live}}</ref> In the 2016-17 academic year, the university had a domicile breakdown of 33:18:50 of UK:EU:non-EU students respectively with a female-to-male ratio of 52:47.<ref>{{cite web|title=Where do HE students study?|url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/where-study#provider|website=hesa.ac.uk|publisher=Higher Education Statistics Authority|access-date=9 February 2018|archive-date=3 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221103181040/https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/where-study#provider|url-status=live}}</ref>