Editing London School of Economics (section)

=== Rankings and reputation ===
{{Infobox UK university rankings
| ARWU_W = 151–200
| THE_W = 50=
| QS_W = 50=
| LEIDEN_W = 30
| LINE_1 = 0
| Complete = 3
| The_Guardian = 4
| Times/Sunday_Times = 1
| LINE_2 = 0
| TEF = Bronze
}}
[[File:LSE 10 Years.png|thumb|upright=1.2|London School of Economic's [[Rankings of universities in the United Kingdom|national league table]] performance over the past ten years]]
LSE is ranked first in the UK in the Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025, in addition to being awarded University of the Year. It was also named as runner-up for University of the Year for Graduate Employment.<ref>{{Cite web |title=UK university rankings 2025 |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk-university-rankings |access-date=20 September 2024 |website=The Times |language=en}}</ref>

LSE is ranked third in the UK in the Complete University Guide 2025,<ref name="Complete League Table 2025">{{cite web |title=University League Table 2025 |url=https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings |website=Complete University Guide |access-date=23 September 2024 }}</ref> and fourth in the Guardian University Guide 2025.<ref name="The Guardian University Guide" />

Ian Diamond, former chief executive of the [[Economic and Social Research Council]] and later vice-chancellor of the [[University of Aberdeen]], a member of the THE editorial board, wrote to ''[[Times Higher Education]]'' in 2007, saying: "The use of a citation database must have an impact because such databases do not have as wide a cover of the social sciences (or arts and humanities) as the natural sciences. Hence the low position of the London School of Economics, caused primarily by its citations score, is a result not of the output of an outstanding institution but the database and the fact that the LSE does not have the counterweight of a large natural science base."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-11-16 |title=Social sciences lose 1 |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/comment/letters/social-sciences-lose-1/311132.article |access-date=26 June 2024 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |language=en}}</ref>

The 2024 ''[[Times Higher Education World University Rankings]]'' place LSE 8th for social sciences in the world, 11th for business and economics, 14th for law and 35th for arts and humanities, ranking the university 46th globally.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-03-27 |title=London School of Economics and Political Science |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/london-school-economics-and-political-science |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |language=en}}</ref> The ''[[Academic Ranking of World Universities]]'' ("Shanghai Ranking") for 2023 ranked LSE 7th in Political Science, 8th in Economics and 8th in Finance, placing it in the 151–200 range.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ShanghaiRanking-Univiersities |url=https://www.shanghairanking.com/institution/london-school-of-economics-and-political-science |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=shanghairanking.com}}</ref>

According to data released by the [[Department for Education]] in 2018, LSE was rated as the best university for boosting graduate earnings, with male graduates seeing a 47.2% increase in earnings and female graduates seeing a 38.2% increase in earnings compared to the average graduate.<ref>{{cite web |title=Undergraduate degrees: relative labour market returns (Table 7: HEI – conditional impact on earnings five years after graduation) |date=7 June 2018 |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/undergraduate-degrees-relative-labour-market-returns |publisher=Department for Education |access-date=17 December 2018 |archive-date=18 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181218010548/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/undergraduate-degrees-relative-labour-market-returns |url-status=live }}</ref>

According to Wealth-X and UBS's "Billionaire Census" in 2014, LSE ranked 10th in the list of 20 schools that have produced the most billionaire alumni.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://money.cnn.com/2014/09/16/luxury/top-colleges-with-billionaire-undergraduates/|title=Top 20 colleges with most billionaire alumni|date=16 September 2014|access-date=17 September 2014|archive-date=20 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140920023934/http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/16/luxury/top-colleges-with-billionaire-undergraduates|url-status=live}}</ref> The LSE was the only UK university to make the list.

In the 2020 [[National Student Survey]] LSE came 64th out of 154 for overall student satisfaction.<ref>{{cite web |title=National Student Survey 2020: overall satisfaction results |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/national-student-survey-2020-overall-satisfaction-results |website=The Student |publisher=[[Times Higher Education]] |access-date=26 February 2021 |date=15 July 2020 |archive-date=1 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201152629/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/national-student-survey-2020-overall-satisfaction-results |url-status=live }}</ref> The LSE had scored well below its benchmark on this measure in previous years, coming 145th out of 148 in 2017.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/national-student-survey-2017-overall-satisfaction-results |title=National Student Survey 2017: overall satisfaction results |magazine=Times Higher Education |date=9 August 2017 |access-date=27 October 2018 |archive-date=27 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027101312/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/national-student-survey-2017-overall-satisfaction-results |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Turner, Camilla |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/08/08/two-britains-leading-universities-fall-benchmark-student-satisfaction/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/08/08/two-britains-leading-universities-fall-benchmark-student-satisfaction/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Two of Britain's leading universities fall well below benchmark for student satisfaction, survey finds |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=9 August 2017 |access-date=27 October 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The increase in student satisfaction in 2020 led to a climb of 14 places to fifth in the 2021 Guardian ranking.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2020/i-September-20/%EF%BB%BF-LSE-rises-up-the-rankings|title=LSE rises up the rankings|date=7 September 2020|publisher=London School of Economics|access-date=26 February 2021|archive-date=5 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505224240/https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2020/i-September-20/%EF%BB%BF-LSE-rises-up-the-rankings|url-status=live}}</ref>