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=== Programmes and degrees ===
{{as of|2024|post=,}} the school offers over 40 undergraduate programmes,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse/Assets/PDF/Prospectus-and-Brochures/undergraduate-guide.pdf|title=Undergraduate Guide 2025/26|website=LSE|page=6|access-date=17 December 2024}}</ref> over 140 taught master's programmes, and research master's and PhD programmes.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse/Assets/PDF/Prospectus-and-Brochures/graduate-guide.pdf|title=Graduate Guide 2025/26|website=LSE|page=13|access-date=17 December 2024}}</ref> Subjects pioneered in Britain by LSE include [[accountancy]] and [[sociology]], and the school also employed Britain's first full-time lecturer in economic history.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2017/12/27/pioneers-of-the-social-sciences/|last=Reed|first=Hayley|date=27 December 2017|title=Pioneers of the social sciences|newspaper=Lse History |publisher=London School of Economics|access-date=22 October 2021|archive-date=22 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022040715/https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2017/12/27/pioneers-of-the-social-sciences/|url-status=live}}</ref> Courses are split across more than thirty research centres and nineteen departments, plus a Language Centre.<ref>{{cite web|date=27 May 2021|title=LSE Language Centre|url=https://www.lse.ac.uk/language-centre|access-date=27 May 2021|publisher=London School of Economics|archive-date=24 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624185128/https://www.lse.ac.uk/language-centre|url-status=live}}</ref> In partnership with the federal University of London, LSE oversees nine BSc programmes as the lead institution which designs the curriculum.<ref>{{Cite web |author=London School of Economics and Political Science |title=Study Online |url=https://www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse/uolip/online-taught-programmes/home.aspx |access-date=2022-04-08 |website=London School of Economics and Political Science |language=en-GB |archive-date=10 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230710221229/https://www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse/uolip/online-taught-programmes |url-status=live }}</ref> Students who chose to study online experience the same unique academic experience as on-campus, they are considered a part of LSE community and they have a variety of options to interact with their university, such as the LSE general course.<ref>{{Cite web |author=London School of Economics and Political Science |title=Opportunities to study at LSE |url=https://www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse/uolip/opportunities-to-study-at-lse.aspx |access-date=2022-04-08 |website=London School of Economics and Political Science |language=en-GB |archive-date=10 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230710221245/https://www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse/uolip/opportunities-to-study-at-lse |url-status=live }}</ref> [[File:Holborn, John Watkins Plaza, London School of Economics - geograph.org.uk - 668683.jpg|thumb|John Watkins Plaza at the London School of Economics]]Since programmes are all within the social sciences, they closely resemble each other, and undergraduate students usually take at least one course module in a subject outside of their degree for their first and second years of study, promoting a broader education in the social sciences.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Summer: London School of Economics (Summer School) (LSE) {{!}} Rutgers |url=https://global.rutgers.edu/program-search/details/summer-london-school-economics-summer-school-lse |access-date=2023-07-07 |website=global.rutgers.edu |archive-date=7 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707162749/https://global.rutgers.edu/program-search/details/summer-london-school-economics-summer-school-lse |url-status=live }}</ref> At undergraduate level, some departments have as few as 90 students across the three years of study.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}} Since September 2010,{{citation needed|date=January 2017}} it has been compulsory for first year undergraduates to participate in LSE 100: Understanding the Causes of Things alongside normal studies.<ref>{{cite web|last=|first=|date=27 May 2021|title=LSE 100: The LSE Course|url=https://info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/lse100|access-date=27 May 2021|website=London School of Economics|archive-date=27 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210527110141/https://info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/lse100|url-status=live}}</ref>

From 1902, following its absorption into the [[University of London]], until 2007, all degrees were awarded by the federal university in common with all other colleges of the university. This system was changed in 2007 to enable some colleges to award their own degrees.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}} LSE was granted the power to begin awarding its own degrees from July 2008.<ref name=AcademicDress/> All students entering from the 2007–08 academic year onwards received an LSE degree, while students who started before this date were issued University of London degrees.<ref>{{cite web|title=LSE Degree Certificates|url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/intranet/students/registrationTimetablesAssessment/certificatesDocsLetters/DegreeCertificate.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170521220344/http://www.lse.ac.uk/intranet/students/registrationTimetablesAssessment/certificatesDocsLetters/DegreeCertificate.aspx|archive-date=21 May 2017|access-date=16 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/london-trio-to-award-their-own-degrees/207945.article|title=London trio to award their own degrees|date=23 February 2007|newspaper=Times Higher Education (THE)|access-date=16 January 2017|archive-date=18 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118073210/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/london-trio-to-award-their-own-degrees/207945.article|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jul/30/highereducation.administration|title=Break-up threat to University of London|last=Curtis|first=Polly|date=30 July 2005|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=16 January 2017|archive-date=18 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118082408/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jul/30/highereducation.administration|url-status=live}}</ref> In conjunction with [[NYU Stern]] and [[HEC Paris]], LSE also offers the [[TRIUM EMBA|TRIUM Executive MBA]]. This was globally ranked third among executive MBAs by the ''[[Financial Times]]'' in 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.triumemba.org/trium-life/news/trium-ranking-financial-times-2016/|title=TRIUM Ranked #3 Executive MBA by Financial Times 2016|work=triumemba.org|date=18 October 2016|access-date=15 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909232835/https://www.triumemba.org/trium-life/news/trium-ranking-financial-times-2016/|archive-date=9 September 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>