London School of Economics and Political Science

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public research university in central London, a member college of the federal University of London that has itself become a university in its own right, specialising in pure and applied social sciences.伦敦政治经济学院（The London School of Economics and Political Science，简称 LSE）是位于伦敦市中心的公立研究型大学，既是联邦制伦敦大学的成员学院，本身也已取得独立大学地位，专攻纯粹与应用社会科学。

It was founded in 1895 by Beatrice Webb, Sidney Webb, Graham Wallas and George Bernard Shaw out of a bequest of 20,000 pounds from the estate of Henry Hunt Hutchinson, and it has educated 24 prime ministers or presidents since 1990.学校 1895 年由比阿特丽丝·韦伯、西德尼·韦伯、格雷厄姆·华莱斯与萧伯纳以亨利·亨特·哈钦逊遗产中 2 万英镑的遗赠创办，自 1990 年以来培养出 24 位首相或总统。

It ranked 62nd in the QS World University Rankings 2027 and 47th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, while its library is one of the largest in the world devoted to the economic and social sciences.学校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列第 62，在 2027 年高等教育时代世界大学排名中列第 47，主图书馆则是全球规模最大的经济与社会科学图书馆之一。

History

• LSE records that the proposal was conceived at a breakfast meeting on 4 August 1894 between the Webbs, Louis Flood and George Bernard Shaw, and that its trustees formally accepted it in February 1895 before teaching began that October.校方记载，创校构想出自 1894 年 8 月 4 日韦伯夫妇、路易斯·弗卢德与萧伯纳的一次早餐会谈，受托人于 1895 年 2 月正式批准该方案，同年 10 月开始授课。

• The founding money came from a bequest of 20,000 pounds in the will of Henry Hunt Hutchinson, a lawyer and Fabian Society member, and was held in trust by Sidney Webb, Edward Pease, Constance Hutchinson, W. S. de Mattos and William Clark.创办资金来自律师兼费边社成员亨利·亨特·哈钦逊遗嘱中 2 万英镑的遗赠，由西德尼·韦伯、爱德华·皮斯、康斯坦丝·哈钦逊、W. S. 德·马托斯与威廉·克拉克五人受托保管。

• The first classes were held in October 1895 in rooms at 9 John Street, Adelphi, in the City of Westminster, before the school outgrew the premises and moved to 10 Adelphi Terrace in September 1896.学校 1895 年 10 月在威斯敏斯特市阿德尔菲约翰街 9 号开课，校舍不敷使用后于 1896 年 9 月迁入阿德尔菲台 10 号。

• It joined the federal University of London in 1900 and in 1901 established the BSc (Econ) and DSc (Econ), the first university degrees anywhere dedicated to the social sciences rather than to arts, sciences or law.学校 1900 年加入联邦制伦敦大学，并于 1901 年设立经济学理学士与经济学理学博士学位，这是世界上最早专门授予社会科学领域的大学学位。

• After further moves the school settled at Clare Market and Houghton Street, where King George V laid the foundation stone of the Old Building in 1920 and where the building opened in 1922.几经迁址后学校落脚于克莱尔马凯特与霍顿街，英王乔治五世于 1920 年为老教学楼奠基，该楼 1922 年落成。

• The arms, the beaver mascot and the Latin motto Rerum cognoscere causas, taken from Virgil's Georgics and worded in English as to know the causes of things at the suggestion of the economist Edwin Cannan, were all adopted in February 1922.校徽、海狸吉祥物与拉丁文校训 Rerum cognoscere causas 均于 1922 年 2 月确定，该校训取自维吉尔《农事诗》，英译为「知其所以然」，措辞由经济学家埃德温·坎南提议。

• Its first four heads were William Hewins from 1895 to 1903, Sir Halford Mackinder from 1903 to 1908, William Pember Reeves from 1908 to 1919 and Lord Beveridge from 1919 to 1937, who presided over the school that helped define the modern welfare state.历任主持人依次为 1895 至 1903 年的威廉·休因斯、1903 至 1908 年的哈尔福德·麦金德爵士、1908 至 1919 年的威廉·彭伯·里夫斯与 1919 至 1937 年的贝弗里奇勋爵，后者任内的学校参与了现代福利国家制度的塑造。

• Under Lord Beveridge the school appointed Friedrich Hayek, and the celebrated 1930s debate between Hayek at LSE and John Maynard Keynes at Cambridge traced the two great modern macroeconomic traditions through Keynesian economics and the Austrian school.贝弗里奇任内学校聘任弗里德里希·哈耶克，1930 年代哈耶克与剑桥的约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯之间的著名论战，划出了凯恩斯主义经济学与奥地利学派这两条现代宏观经济学路径。

• Lionel Robbins, who taught at the school from 1930, was also a principal figure in that debate, and the Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures remain one of the annual lecture series run by its departments.1930 年起在校任教的莱昂内尔·罗宾斯同为论战主角，以其名设立的罗宾斯纪念讲座至今仍是校内院系年度讲座系列之一。

• During the Second World War the school decamped from London and occupied buildings belonging to Peterhouse in Cambridge, and in the mid-1960s it considered but did not pursue a joint school of administration, economics and technology with Imperial College, leaving the London Business School to be created instead.第二次世界大战期间学校迁出伦敦，租用剑桥大学彼得学院的校舍；20 世纪 60 年代中期它曾与帝国理工学院商谈合办行政、经济与技术联合学院而未成，伦敦商学院遂由伦敦大学另行设立。

• The appointment of Sir Walter Adams as director in 1966 provoked student protests over Rhodesia and apartheid investments, and after students tried to dismantle the school gates in 1969 the school closed for 25 days, injunctions were taken out against 13 students and two staff members were dismissed.1966 年聘任沃尔特·亚当斯爵士为院长，因其对罗得西亚与种族隔离投资的立场引发学生抗议，1969 年学生试图拆毁校门后学校停课 25 天，13 名学生被禁令约束，两名教职员遭解雇。

• The 1970s brought four Nobel Memorial Prizes in Economic Sciences to economists associated with the school, namely John Hicks in 1972, Friedrich Hayek in 1974, James Meade in 1977 and W. Arthur Lewis in 1979.20 世纪 70 年代，与该校相关的经济学家四度摘得诺贝尔经济学奖，依次为 1972 年约翰·希克斯、1974 年弗里德里希·哈耶克、1977 年詹姆斯·米德与 1979 年威廉·阿瑟·刘易斯。

• W. Arthur Lewis took his BSc in Economics in 1937 and taught from 1938 to 1944 as the school's first Black academic, and he remains the only Black person ever awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.威廉·阿瑟·刘易斯 1937 年在校取得经济学理学士，1938 至 1944 年任教，是该校首位黑人学者，也是迄今唯一获得诺贝尔经济学奖的黑人。

• The Economist observed in 2001 that two decades earlier the school had still been a poor relation among the colleges of the University of London, whereas under Anthony Giddens from 1996 to 2003 it began to follow Oxford and Cambridge regularly in league tables of research output and teaching quality.《经济学人》2001 年指出，二十年前该校在伦敦大学各学院中还只是一个相对逊色的一员，而在 1996 至 2003 年安东尼·纪登斯任内，它开始在科研产出与教学质量榜单上常态化地紧随牛津与剑桥。

• The school acquired its own degree-awarding powers in 2006 and awarded its first degrees in its own name in 2008, so that every student entering from the 2007-08 academic year received an LSE degree rather than a University of London degree.学校 2006 年取得自行授予学位的权限，2008 年首次以本校名义颁发学位，自 2007-08 学年起入学者拿到的都是伦敦政经学位而非伦敦大学学位。

• After the University of London Act 2018 the school announced in early 2019 that it would seek university status in its own right, received approval from the Office for Students in May 2022, and had updated articles of association formally constituting it as a university approved by council on 5 July 2022.《2018 年伦敦大学法》通过后，学校于 2019 年初宣布申请成为独立大学，2022 年 5 月获英国学生事务办公室批准，同年 7 月 5 日理事会通过修订后的章程，正式确立其独立大学地位。

• In 2011 the school faced the fallout from enrolling a son of Muammar Gaddafi while accepting 1.5 million pounds from his family, its director Howard Davies resigned over the links to the Libyan regime and an external inquiry was led by the former lord chief justice Harry Woolf.2011 年学校因招收穆阿迈尔·卡扎菲之子入学并接受其家族 150 万英镑捐赠而陷入风波，院长霍华德·戴维斯因与利比亚当局的关系辞职，外部调查由前首席大法官哈里·伍尔夫主持。

• Labor disputes peaked in the summer of 2023 when the school refused partial performance of duties and docked the pay of striking academics, and Higher Education Statistics Agency data show the share of staff on fixed-term contracts rising from 47% in 2016-17 to 59% in 2021-22.劳资争议在 2023 年夏达到高峰，学校拒绝接受部分履职并对参与罢工的教职员扣减薪酬；英国高等教育统计局数据显示，固定期限合同教职员占比由 2016-17 年度的 47% 升至 2021-22 年度的 59%。

• In 2021 the school claimed to be the first UK university independently verified as carbon neutral by funding rainforest offsets through the Finnish organisation Compensate, though critics noted that construction and campus food emissions were excluded, and it now plans to offset its remaining emissions by 2050.2021 年学校自称是首所经独立核验实现碳中和的英国大学，途径为经芬兰机构 Compensate 出资认购雨林碳汇，但有批评指出核算中遗漏了建筑施工与校园餐饮排放，学校计划在 2050 年前抵消其余排放。

• Governance rests on the LSE Council, whose members are company directors, the Court of Governors, the academic board chaired by the director and the director's management team, the school being incorporated as a company limited by guarantee and registered as an exempt charity.学校治理由成员即公司董事的理事会、校董会、由院长主持的学术委员会以及院长管理团队构成，校方以担保有限公司形式注册，并登记为免税慈善机构。

• Among later heads of the school were Sir Sydney Caine from 1957 to 1967, Ralf Dahrendorf from 1974 to 1984, Indraprasad Gordhanbhai Patel from 1984 to 1990, Sir John Ashworth from 1990 to 1996 and Minouche Shafik from 2017 to 2023, with the American legal scholar Larry Kramer taking office as president and vice-chancellor in April 2024.历任主持人中还包括 1957 至 1967 年的悉尼·凯恩爵士、1974 至 1984 年的拉尔夫·达伦多夫、1984 至 1990 年的因德拉普拉萨德·戈德汉巴伊·帕特尔、1990 至 1996 年的约翰·阿什沃思爵士与 2017 至 2023 年的米努奇·沙菲克，美国法学家拉里·克雷默自 2024 年 4 月起出任校长兼副校长。

Academics

• Teaching and research are organised into 27 academic departments and institutes created by the council on the advice of the academic board, among them the LSE Law School, the School of Public Policy, the European Institute, the International Inequalities Institute and the Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship.教学与研究由理事会依学术委员会建议设立的 27 个学系与研究所组织，其中包括伦敦政经法学院、公共政策学院、欧洲研究所、国际不平等研究所与马歇尔慈善事业与社会创业研究所。

• The departments include Accounting, Anthropology, Economic History, Economics, Finance, Geography and Environment, Gender Studies, Health Policy and Government.各系涵盖会计、人类学、经济史、经济、金融、地理与环境、性别研究、卫生政策与政府。

• A further group covers International Development, International History, International Relations, Management, Mathematics, Media and Communications, Methodology and Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method.另有一组系所涵盖国际发展、国际史、国际关系、管理、数学、媒体与传播、方法学，以及哲学、逻辑与科学方法。

• The remainder are Psychological and Behavioural Science, Social Policy, Sociology, Statistics, the Institute of Public Affairs and the Language Centre, alongside the named schools and institutes listed above.其余为心理与行为科学、社会政策、社会学、统计、公共事务研究所与语言中心，与前述具名学院、研究所并列。

• LSE is unusual among British research universities in offering only the BA and BSc as undergraduate degrees, and several departments run teaching-by-research cohorts with as few as 90 students across the three years of study.伦敦政经在英国研究型大学中相当特殊，本科只授予文学学士与理学学士学位，且多个系所实行以科研带动教学，本科三个年级合计在读学生最少时仅约 90 人。

• As of 2024 the school offered more than 40 undergraduate programmes, more than 140 taught master's programmes and a full range of research master's and PhD programmes spread across its departments and thirty-odd research centres.截至 2024 年，学校开设 40 余个本科专业、140 余个授课型硕士专业，以及覆盖各系与三十多个研究中心的研究型硕士与博士课程。

• It pioneered accountancy and sociology as university subjects in Britain and employed the country's first full-time lecturer in economic history, an academic line the school has kept at the centre of its teaching ever since.学校在英国开创了会计学与社会学的大学教学，并聘用了英国第一位专职经济史讲师，这条学术脉络此后一直居于学校教学的中心。

• Since September 2010 LSE 100, a compulsory first-year course called Understanding the Causes of Things, has run alongside the degree studies of every undergraduate in the school.自 2010 年 9 月起，面向全体本科新生的必修课 LSE 100《理解事物的成因》与专业课并行开设。

• The US News institutional profile lists 12,430 students, of whom 8,250 are international, and 985 academic staff, of whom 635 are international, while the school's own 2023-24 figures put enrolment just under 13,000 with a clear majority on postgraduate programmes.《美国新闻与世界报道》院校页列出在校生 12,430 人，其中国际学生 8,250 人，教职员工 985 人，其中国际教职 635 人；学校自身 2023-24 年度口径的在读规模略低于 1.3 万人，研究生占明显多数。

• The 2021 Research Excellence Framework rated the school joint third in the UK with Cambridge University for research quality, and in the 2014 framework it scored a grade point average of 3.35 to rank third ahead of both Oxford University and the University of Cambridge.2021 年英国研究卓越框架按研究质量将学校与剑桥大学并列全英第三，2014 年框架中学校平均积分 3.35 分位居第三，领先牛津大学与剑桥大学。

• Analysis of the 2014 results placed it the leading UK research university by grade point average in business and management, in area studies, and in communication, cultural and media studies with library and information management.对 2014 年结果的分解分析显示，学校在商业与管理、区域研究，以及传播、文化与媒体研究和图书馆信息管理三个学科群上，以提交研究的平均积分居全英第一。

• Earlier in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise the school placed joint second nationally on grade point average and first for the proportion of world-leading four-star research, and it ranked 23rd in the country for research power in 2014.更早的 2008 年研究评估中，学校平均积分并列全英第二，世界领先四星研究比例居首，2014 年学校按科研实力位居全英第 23。

• Its named research centres include the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion, the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change chaired by Lord Stern, the Financial Markets Group founded by the former Bank of England governor Mervyn King and the International Growth Centre funded by the UK Department for International Development.具名研究中心包括社会排斥分析中心、由斯特恩勋爵主持的格兰瑟姆气候变化与环境研究所、由前英格兰银行行长默文·金创立的金融市场小组，以及由英国国际发展部出资的国际增长中心。

• The school also hosts the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, LSE Health and Social Care, LSE Cities, the Institute of Public Affairs and the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth, one of six centres backed by the UK government.学校还设有气候变化经济与政策中心、卫生与社会照护中心、城市研究中心、公共事务研究所，以及英国政府支持的六个「什么有效」中心之一的「地方经济增长什么有效中心」。

• LSE IDEAS, the foreign policy think tank founded in February 2008 by Michael Cox and Arne Westad, was jointly ranked the world's second best university think tank in 2015 alongside the LSE Public Policy Group.外交政策智库 LSE IDEAS 由迈克尔·考克斯与阿恩·韦斯塔德于 2008 年 2 月创立，2015 年与伦敦政经公共政策小组并列全球第二大学智库。

• In February 2015 Angelina Jolie and William Hague launched the UK's first academic centre on Women, Peace and Security at the school, and both joined as visiting professors in practice from September 2016.2015 年 2 月，安吉丽娜·朱莉与威廉·黑格在校内发起英国首个「妇女、和平与安全」学术研究中心，二人自 2016 年 9 月起出任实践客座教授。

• Six partner universities provide joint degrees, namely Columbia University, the University of California at Berkeley, Peking University, the National University of Singapore, the University of Cape Town and Sciences Po, and with the Stern School of Business at New York University and HEC School of Management in Paris the school runs the sixteen-month TRIUM executive MBA.学校与哥伦比亚大学、加州大学伯克利分校、北京大学、新加坡国立大学、开普敦大学及巴黎政治学院六所伙伴高校提供联合学位，其中与纽约大学斯特恩商学院及巴黎高等商业研究学院合办的 TRIUM 高管 MBA 全程 16 个月。

• In 2025 the school received 30,000 applications for roughly 1,900 undergraduate places, with BSc in Economics alone drawing more than 4,000 applications for just over 200 places, and entrants hold 159 to 162 UCAS tariff points, the equivalent of three A stars at A level.2025 年学校收到 3 万份本科申请，对应约 1,900 个学额，仅经济学理学士一个专业就有 4,000 余份申请争夺 200 余个学额；近年入学新生的平均成绩为 159 至 162 个大学入学考试积分，约相当于 A-Level 的三个 A 星。

• Postgraduate applicants need a first or an upper second class honours degree and competition is severe, with the MSc in Economic Policy for International Development accepting only 3.46% of applicants in 2024.申请研究生须持英国一等或二等一荣誉学位，竞争十分激烈，仅「国际发展经济政策」硕士 2024 年的录取率就低至 3.46%。

Campus

• The campus occupies an almost continuous group of around 30 buildings between Kingsway and Aldwych in the City of Westminster, on the historic Clare Market site between Covent Garden and Holborn, close to the Royal Courts of Justice and all four Inns of Court.校区由金道与奥德威奇之间近乎连续的一组约 30 栋建筑构成，位于威斯敏斯特市，处在科文特花园与霍本之间历史上称为克莱尔马凯特的街区，紧邻皇家司法法院与四所律师学院。

• The Old Building on Houghton Street, whose foundation stone King George V laid in 1920, opened in 1922 and still carries the school's teaching, administrative and ceremonial functions.霍顿街的老教学楼由英王乔治五世于 1920 年奠基，1922 年启用，至今仍承担学校的教学、行政与典礼功能。

• The former Public Trustee building at 24 Kingsway was bought in 2003 and rebuilt to designs by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw at a cost of over 45 million pounds, adding 120,000 square feet of floor area and opening for teaching in October 2008 with a formal opening by the Queen on 5 November.学校 2003 年购入国王道 24 号原公共受托人大厦，请尼古拉斯·格里姆肖爵士改造，总耗资逾 4,500 万英镑，新增 12 万平方英尺楼面面积，2008 年 10 月启用教学，并于 11 月 5 日由女王正式揭幕。

• The 13-storey Centre Building opposite the main library opened in June 2019, designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners after a RIBA competition, and carries 14 seminar rooms, 234 study spaces and a 200-seat auditorium.主图书馆对面的 13 层中心楼由罗杰斯·斯蒂克·哈伯与合伙人事务所依皇家英国建筑师学会竞赛方案设计，2019 年 6 月启用，内设 14 间研讨教室、234 个自习席位与一座 200 座礼堂。

• The Marshall Building at 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields opened in January 2022 to designs by Grafton Architects, named for the investor Paul Marshall, and stands on a site whose Francis Crick Institute laboratories the school had bought in 2013.林肯律师学院广场 44 号的马歇尔楼由格拉夫顿建筑师事务所设计，2022 年 1 月启用，以投资人保罗·马歇尔命名，其地块原为弗朗西斯·克里克研究所的实验室，校方于 2013 年购入。

• The Nuffield Building at 35 Lincoln's Inn Fields was acquired in 2017 and is being rebuilt as the Firoz Lalji Global Hub to designs by David Chipperfield Architects, with demolition starting in 2024 and completion expected by summer 2027.2017 年购入的林肯律师学院广场 35 号纳菲尔德楼正改建为 Firoz Lalji 全球中心，方案出自大卫·奇普菲尔德建筑事务所，2024 年启动拆除，预计 2027 年夏建成。

• The British Library of Political and Economic Science, founded in 1896 and reopened in 2001 after a Foster and Partners renovation, holds over four million print volumes, 60,000 online journals and 29,000 electronic books and welcomes 1.8 million visits a year, while the Women's Library moved in from London Metropolitan University in 2014.建于 1896 年的英国政治经济图书馆经福斯特与合伙人事务所改造后于 2001 年重新开放，藏有 400 余万册纸质文献、6 万种在线期刊与 2.9 万种电子书，年接待读者 180 万人次；女性图书馆则于 2014 年自伦敦都市大学迁入。

• Subject libraries include the Seligman Library for Anthropology, the Himmelweit Library for Social Psychology and the Leverhulme Library for Statistics, and the Shaw Library in the Old Building hosts the Fabian Window, unveiled by Tony Blair in 2006.分科图书馆包括人类学的塞利格曼图书馆、社会心理学的希梅尔魏特图书馆与统计学的利弗休姆图书馆，老教学楼内的肖氏图书馆则陈列着由托尼·布莱尔于 2006 年揭幕的「费边之窗」。

• The campus is known for its public art, which includes Richard Wilson's Square the Block, Michael Brown's Blue Rain, Christopher Le Brun's Desert Window and Mark Wallinger's The World Turned Upside Down, alongside the George IV public house the school operates and the Peacock theatre it holds on the West End.校园以公共艺术装置著称，包括理查德·威尔逊的《广场街区》、迈克尔·布朗的《蓝雨》、克里斯托弗·勒布伦的《荒漠之窗》与马克·瓦林格的《颠倒的世界》；学校还经营乔治四世酒吧，并在西区持有一座孔雀剧院。

• Overseas activity runs through the LSE Summer School, established in 1989 and drawing over 5,000 participants from more than 130 countries each year, together with the partner school in Beijing run with Peking University and the July school in Cape Town run with the University of Cape Town.海外办学以 1989 年创办的暑期学校为核心，每年吸引来自 130 余个国家的 5,000 余名参与者，并设有与北京大学合办的北京暑期学校以及与开普敦大学合办的七月学校。

Reputation

• LSE ranked 62nd in the QS World University Rankings 2027 and has sat in the 51 to 100 band in most editions of that table over the past two decades.学校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 62，近二十年间在多数版本中稳定处于第 51 至 100 区间。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 placed it 47th, an improvement on the 52nd recorded in the 2026 edition of the same table.2027 年高等教育时代世界大学排名将学校列第 47 位，较该榜单 2026 年版的第 52 位有所上升。

• The US News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 edition is the outlier, ranking LSE joint 223rd worldwide, because that table weights bibliometric research output heavily and gives no separate credit for teaching strength in the social sciences.《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 年度最佳全球大学排名是明显的例外，将伦敦政经并列排在全球第 223 位，原因是该榜以文献计量科研产出为核心权重，且不为社会科学领域的教学优势单列名次。

• On subjects the picture reverses, with the Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2026 placing the school 10th in the world for social sciences and 13th for business and economics, while the US News profile gives it 10th in economics and business.分学科看则完全相反，2026 年高等教育时代学科排名把学校社会科学列世界第 10、商业与经济列第 13，《美国新闻与世界报道》院校页也给出经济与商业第 10。

• The Shanghai Ranking placed it 5th in political science, 8th in economics and 13th in finance in its 2025 edition, inside a 151 to 200 overall band, and no 2026 edition entry for the school was available for comparison.上海软科世界大学学术排名 2025 年版将学校政治学列第 5、经济学列第 8、金融学列第 13，综合名次落在第 151 至 200 名区间，而 2026 年版未收录该校数据可供比对。

• OpenAlex records 75,975 works and 3,125,321 citations for the institution, figures that place it among the most heavily cited social science faculties anywhere, and the Times Higher Education put it third in the UK for fundraising in 2023-24 on 49.3 million pounds.OpenAlex 数据库记录该校 75,975 项成果与 3,125,321 次引用，使其跻身全球引用最密集的社会科学院系之列；《高等教育时代》亦按 2023-24 年度 4,930 万英镑的筹款额将其列为全英第三。

• The school reports 21 Nobel laureates among its alumni and staff as of 2025, and its library, the largest in the world devoted to the social sciences, holds the papers and archives that make that record researchable.校方统计显示，截至 2025 年，校友与教职员工中共有 21 位诺贝尔奖得主；作为全球最大的社会科学图书馆，馆藏也保存了支撑这一记录的档案与文献。

• Domestically it ranked third in the Complete University Guide 2027, fourth in the Guardian University Guide 2026 and first in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026, and it was named Times and Sunday Times University of the Year 2025.在国内榜单中，学校位列《完全大学指南》2027 年第 3、《卫报大学指南》2026 年第 4、《泰晤士与周日泰晤士报优秀大学指南》2026 年第 1，并获评 2025 年「泰晤士与周日泰晤士报年度大学」。

• The contrast with that global table is the point, since an institution that has educated 24 prime ministers or presidents since 1990 and produced 19% business leaders among its graduates on LinkedIn in 2025 sits 223rd on a bibliography-weighted list.与该全球榜的巨大反差恰是问题的关键：一所以 1990 年以来培养了 24 位首相或总统、2025 年在领英上培养出占比 19% 企业领袖的学府，竟在一份按文献量加权的榜单上位列第 223 位。

Student life

• The motto Rerum cognoscere causas, taken from Virgil and adopted together with the coat of arms in February 1922, is rendered in English as to know the causes of things, and the beaver chosen to go with it stands for foresight and industriousness.校训 Rerum cognoscere causas 取自维吉尔，与校徽同于 1922 年 2 月确定，英译为「知其所以然」，与之配套的海狸吉祥物象征远见与勤勉。

• Unlike most British research universities the school has no constituent colleges and no college system, so undergraduate identity is built around departments, halls of residence and the Students' Union rather than a collegiate house.与多数英国研究型大学不同，学校不设书院与学院制，本科生的归属感由院系、学生公寓与学生会建立，而非依托某个学院。

• The school owns or operates ten halls of residence in central London and shares five intercollegiate halls with other colleges of the University of London, giving over 4,000 places, and it guarantees accommodation for every first-year undergraduate.学校在伦敦市中心自有或运营 10 座学生公寓，并与伦敦大学其他成员学院共用 5 座，合计逾 4,000 个床位，且保证为全体本科新生安排住宿。

• The largest residence, Bankside House, opened in 1996 in a refurbished 1950s office block that had housed the Central Electricity Generating Board and accommodates 617 students across eight floors overlooking the Thames, while High Holborn opened in 1995 with 447 self-catered places.最大的公寓 Bankside House 于 1996 年启用，由 1950 年代中央发电局的旧办公楼改造而成，八层可住 617 名学生，俯瞰泰晤士河；1995 年开放的 High Holborn 公寓则提供 447 个自炊床位。

• The LSE Students' Union runs more than 200 societies and 40 sports clubs and moved into the purpose-built Saw Swee Hock Student Centre in 2013, and it has been regarded as the most politically active in Britain since the student riots of 1966-67 and 1968-69.学生会管理 200 多个社团与 40 个体育俱乐部，2013 年迁入专门建设的 Saw Swee Hock 学生中心；自 1966-67 与 1968-69 两次学潮以来，该会被视为全英政治参与度最高的学生组织之一。

• The Beaver is published every Tuesday through term time and takes its name from the beaver mascot adopted in 1922, the student radio station Pulse! dates from 1999 and LooSE Television from 2005, and the Clare Market Review, one of Britain's oldest student publications, was revived in 2008.校报《海狸报》每学期每周二发行，报名取自 1922 年确定的海狸吉祥物，学生广播站 Pulse! 始于 1999 年，电视台 LooSE Television 始于 2005 年，另有英国最古老的学生刊物之一《克莱尔马凯特评论》于 2008 年复刊。

• The union's Raising and Giving arm was started in 1980 by Tim Barnett, then entertainments officer and later a New Zealand MP, and it now raises more than 150,000 pounds for charity each year.学生会下属的募捐与赠予分支由时任娱乐部长、后来的新西兰国会议员蒂姆·巴内特于 1980 年创办，如今每年为慈善募得 15 万英镑以上。

• Sport is coordinated by the LSE Athletics Union within BUCS, the LSE Summer School has run since 1989 with more than 100 three-week courses across June, July and August, and the Guardian named the school the top student nightlife in Britain in 2015.体育事务由加入英国大学与学院体育协会的伦敦政经体育联合会统筹，暑期学校自 1989 年开办，在 6 至 8 月开设 100 余门为期三周的课程，《卫报》曾于 2015 年将学校评为全英学生夜生活最佳。

Notable people

• Beatrice Webb, Sidney Webb, Graham Wallas and George Bernard Shaw founded the school in 1895, and its first director was the economist William Hewins, who served from 1895 to 1903 before Halford Mackinder and William Pember Reeves.比阿特丽丝·韦伯、西德尼·韦伯、格雷厄姆·华莱斯与萧伯纳是 1895 年的创办者，首任院长为经济学家威廉·休因斯，任期 1895 至 1903 年，其后依次由哈尔福德·麦金德与威廉·彭伯·里夫斯接任。

• Two Nobel laureates taught at the school before the war, John Hicks, a lecturer from 1926 to 1936 who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1972, and Friedrich Hayek, a lecturer from 1931 to 1950 who won it in 1974.战前有两位诺贝尔奖得主在校任教：1926 至 1936 年任讲师的约翰·希克斯获 1972 年诺贝尔经济学奖，1931 至 1950 年任讲师的弗里德里希·哈耶克获 1974 年诺贝尔经济学奖。

• James Meade, a lecturer from 1947 to 1957, won the same prize in 1977, and W. Arthur Lewis, who took his BSc in 1937 and developed the dual economy model, won it in 1979.1947 至 1957 年任讲师的詹姆斯·米德于 1977 年获同一奖项，1937 年在本校取得理学学士学位、后来提出二元经济模型的威廉·阿瑟·刘易斯于 1979 年获奖。

• Later laureates affiliated with the school include Ronald Coase, awarded in 1991 for work on transaction costs and the economics of the firm, Amartya Sen in 1993, Robert Mundell in 1999 for optimal currency areas, George Akerlof in 2001 for the lemons market paper he published in 1970 and Christopher Pissarides in 2010.此后与该校相关的获奖者包括凭交易成本与企业理论获奖的罗纳德·科斯（1991 年）、阿马蒂亚·森（1993 年）、凭最优货币区研究获奖的罗伯特·蒙代尔（1999 年）、凭 1970 年发表的柠檬市场论文获奖的乔治·阿克洛夫（2001 年）与克里斯托弗·皮萨里德斯（2010 年）。

• Juan Manuel Santos, president of Colombia from 2010 to 2018, studied at the school and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016 for his work on the Colombian peace process.2010 至 2018 年任哥伦比亚总统的胡安·曼努埃尔·桑托斯曾在此就读，并因推动哥伦比亚和平进程获 2016 年诺贝尔和平奖。

• Political alumni include Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission since 2019, Romano Prodi, European Commission president from 1999 to 2004, K. R. Narayanan, president of India from 1997 to 2002, and B. R. Ambedkar, India's first law minister and the chief architect of its constitution.政界校友包括 2019 年起任欧盟委员会主席的乌尔苏拉·冯·德莱恩、1999 至 2004 年任欧盟委员会主席的罗马诺·普罗迪、1997 至 2002 年任印度总统的克·拉·纳拉亚南，以及印度首任司法部长、印度宪法的主要起草者布拉姆·孙德尔·安贝德卡尔。

• Two alumni stand out for Chinese-language readers, Tsai Ing-wen, who received her Doctor of Laws degree from the school in 1984 as confirmed by university statements published in 2019 and 2022, and Yang Jiechi, China's foreign minister from 2007 to 2013.两位华人校友尤引人注目：蔡英文于 1984 年获授该校法学博士学位，校方曾于 2019 年与 2022 年两度公开确认，杨洁篪则于 2007 至 2013 年任中华人民共和国外交部长。

• Business alumni include the hedge fund manager George Soros, the former chairman of Chase David Rockefeller, Google's president and chief investment officer Ruth Porat, the easyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou and the AirAsia co-founder Tony Fernandes.商界校友包括对冲基金经理乔治·索罗斯、曾任大通银行董事长的戴维·洛克菲勒、谷歌总裁兼首席投资官露丝·波拉特、易捷航空创始人斯特利奥斯·哈吉伊奥安努，以及亚航联合创办人托尼·费尔南德斯。

• Other notable staff include the philosopher Karl Popper, the political theorist Harold Laski, the sociologist Anthony Giddens, the economist Mervyn King who was governor of the Bank of England, and the economist Amartya Sen, who moved from LSE to Oxford.其他值得一提的教职员工还包括哲学家卡尔·波普、政治理论家哈罗德·拉斯基、社会学家安东尼·纪登斯、曾任英格兰银行行长的经济学家默文·金，以及由伦敦政经转往牛津任教的经济学家阿马蒂亚·森。