📸 At a Glance
🌍 London, England
🎓 Russell Group ✅
⚖️ Race Equality Charter ✅ Member, No Award
💷 Scholarships Available ✅
🏅 Ranking: 3 (Complete University Guide 2026)
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💷 Scholarships | 🎓 What to Know | 🧑🏾🎓 Student Life | 📊 Demographics
💷 Scholarships & Funding for 2027/28
🔔 2027/28 scholarships: Latest information available at the time of update. New opportunities will be added as they are announced.
Status: 🟢 Open · 🟡 Soon · 🔵 TBA · ↻ Rolling
🔵 2027/28 TBC
Uggla Family Scholars Programme
Provides partial tuition fee funding and a full maintenance stipend, alongside guaranteed LSE accommodation, coaching, careers support and academic and personal development opportunities. Up to 10 scholarships are available each year.The 2027/28 award amount is yet to be confirmed.
🔵 2027/28 TBC
- AKO Scholarships – The AKO Foundation Scholarships offer two fully funded awards (fees and stipend) and eight tuition fee-only awards through LSE’s Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science. Applicants should demonstrate the societal impact they plan to make in their home region after graduatinUg.
- Atlantic Fellowship for Social and Economic Equity – The Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity (AFSEE) Programme at LSE’s International Inequalities Institute is open to experienced academics and senior practitioners. Offered across Residential and Non-Residential tracks, it combines academic coursework with practical approaches to driving social change. Applications for the 2027/28 cohort open in Autumn 2026.
- Firoz and Najma Foundation Scholarship – The Firoz and Najma Foundation Scholarship supports students from Belize or Uganda studying at LSE, with the aim of developing future leaders who will contribute to their country’s growth. If no suitable applicant from either country is found, students from other countries may be considered.
- Joint Japan World Bank Graduate Scholarship Programme – Open to citizens of over 90 eligible developing countries, this scholarship is for applicants with a Bachelor’s degree earned at least three years before applying and a minimum of three years’ paid development-related work experience. Applicants should have a track record of contributing to their country’s development efforts.
- Undergraduate Support Scheme – This scheme offers financial assistance to overseas students who demonstrate financial need.
📊 Student Demographics
| Black: 7% | Mixed race: 9% | White: 42% |
| Asian: 33% | Other: 4% | Unknown: 5% |
📢 Uni Essentials
LSE Thrive – This free 10-month programme for Year 12 students of Black heritage who live in or close to London and are interested in applying to LSE. You’ll get mentoring from current LSE students, campus visits, university and student-finance guidance, wellbeing support and personalised help with your application and personal statement. Completing the programme can also lead to consideration for a contextual offer if you apply to LSE.
LSE Empower – A free online event for Year 12 students of Black heritage from across the UK. It gives you a chance to learn more about LSE, hear from Black students, staff and alumni, and get advice on applying, student finance and university life. Participants on LSE Thrive are also offered a place at the LSE Empower Conference. Visit their website in Spring 2027 for information about future opportunities.
There are a range of support services, mentoring schemes and student-led communities for students at the LSE. These include race equity initiatives, wellbeing and careers support, student networks and cultural societies such as:
Ubuntu Cafe – The Ubuntu Café is an informal space for African students and friends of Africa at LSE to connect, debate and be empowered. Founded in 2022, it aims to create a vibrant, intellectually stimulating environment that celebrates African culture and ideas.
Ethnic Minority Mentoring Scheme
Anti-racism Reporting & Safe Contacts Scheme – Students can report incidents of racism and harassment. Students can also receive support from trained staff volunteers across departments and divisions who provide a signposting service for any students who might want to report or discuss incidents of bullying and harassment.
Students can also become a Thrive Mentor where you will provide support to the participants of the programme.
👩🏿🎓👨🏾🎓 Student Life
- LSESU African & Caribbean Society (ACS)
- Advancing Black Careers Society
- BME Mentoring Programme
- African Business Society
- Advancing Black Careers Society
- Black Student Network (student representation network)
ℹ️ See the university’s full societies directory for additional or newer groups.
