LSE is a university specializing in social sciences and enjoys an excellent reputation in the political and business sectors. As of 2016, LSE alumni had 18 Nobel Prize winners (including 17% of all Nobel Prize winners), 55 heads of state or government, 31 members of the British House of Commons, and 42 top leaders Member of the House. According to the QS World University Rankings, LSE ranks second in the world for eight consecutive years in the field of social sciences and management from 2013 to 2020, second only to Harvard University; for seven consecutive years in the field of communication and media research from 2014 to 2020 Ranked in the top five in the world.
According to the academic ranking of World University of Soft Science, LSE ranked first in Europe in the field of social sciences for six consecutive years from 2011 to 2016. According to the official ranking of British universities in REF 2014, LSE has the highest proportion of world-leading research results in the UK. The results of the joint survey report of Wealth-X and UBS against the world’s richest people published in the same year show that among all European universities, LSE has cultivated the most Of the billionaires, the average starting salary of their graduates is also the highest in the UK. According to the 2019-20 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, LSE ranks 27th in the world.
In most comprehensive world university rankings, medical and science-based schools are usually more dominant, such as the IC and UCL of colleges and universities also located in London. LSE of related majors. However, LSE has performed very well in the professional rankings. According to the ranking of global economic research institutions of Tilburg University commonly used in academia, LSE’s most prestigious economic department ranks fourth in the world.
