London School of Economics
Public university in London
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| 2025 | LSE ranked first in the UK in the Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide and awarded University of the Year. |
| 2024 | The London School of Economics received 28,000 applications for approximately 1,850 undergraduate places, maintaining a highly competitive admissions ratio of 15 applicants per place. |
| 2024 | Planning permission was granted for the Firoz Lalji Global Hub project, and demolition work commenced at the site. |
| 2024 | Emails from LSE senior staff emerged describing students protesting the university's investments in Israel while wearing keffiyeh as being 'dressed as terrorists'. |
| 2023 | LSE extended offers of admission to roughly 12.2% of its undergraduate applicants, which was one of the lowest offer rates across the United Kingdom. |
| 2023 | LSE ranked third for fundraising among 119 Universities UK members, securing £49.3 million in donations and new endowments. |
| 2023 | UCU academic staff conducted industrial action over pay and casualised working conditions. In response, LSE management imposed pay deductions and introduced an 'Exceptional Degree Classification Schemes' policy. |
| 2023 | LSE formally cut ties with the LGBT charity Stonewall, a decision criticized by the Student Union as transphobic but praised by gender-critical activists. |
| July 2023 | LSE announced that Larry Kramer, head of the Hewlett Foundation, would become president and vice-chancellor in April 2024. |
| June 23 2023 | Eric Neumayer became the interim vice-chancellor of LSE, replacing Minouche Shafik. |
| 2022 | LSE changed the title of its head from 'director' to 'president and vice-chancellor'. |
| July 5 2022 | LSE council approved updated Articles of Association formally constituting the school as a university. |
| May 2022 | Received approval for university title from the Office for Students. |
| January 2022 | The Marshall Building officially opened, designed by Grafton Architects and named after British investor Paul Marshall. The building houses the Departments of Management, Accounting, and Finance, along with sports facilities and the Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship. |
| 2021 | In the Research Excellence Framework, LSE was rated joint third with the University of Cambridge for the quality of its research. |
| 2021 | LSE ranked 8th highest in the UK for average undergraduate entry qualifications, with new students averaging 195 UCAS points, approximately equivalent to AAAA A-level grades. |
| 2021 | London School of Economics claimed to be the first UK university to be independently verified as carbon-neutral by funding rainforest tree offsets through the Finnish organisation Compensate, though the carbon neutrality was partial, excluding some emission sources. |
| 2021 | The Centre Building received architectural recognition, winning both the RIBA London Award and National Award for its design. |
| 2020 | Improved student satisfaction, climbing 14 places to fifth in the Guardian ranking in 2021. |
| 2020 | Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Academic Board moved to online meetings and had not yet returned to in-person gatherings. |
| 2019 | Following the University of London Act 2018, LSE announced plans to seek independent university status while remaining part of the federal university. |
| June 2019 | The Centre Building was opened, designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners after winning a RIBA competition. The 13-storey building provides extensive academic facilities including seminar rooms, study spaces, an auditorium, and lecture theatres for multiple departments. |
| March 26 2019 | A controversial sculpture by Mark Wallinger called 'The World Turned Upside Down' was installed on Sheffield Street, sparking debates due to its geopolitical representations of Taiwan, China, and other territorial boundaries. |
| 2018 | Rated as the best university for boosting graduate earnings by the Department for Education, with male graduates seeing a 47.2% increase and female graduates a 38.2% increase in earnings. |
| 2018 | London School of Economics launched LSE Press in partnership with Ubiquity Press, dedicated to publishing open-access journals and books in the social sciences. The first journal published was the Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, edited by John Collins from LSE's International Drug Policy Unit. |
| June 2018 | LSE announced that approximately 200 outsourced workers would be offered in-house contracts following the previous year's industrial disputes. |
| 2017 | Times Higher Education Pay Survey revealed LSE professors and academics as the highest paid among larger, non-specialist UK institutions. |
| 2017 | London School of Economics acquired the Nuffield Building at 35 Lincoln's Inn Fields from the Royal College of Surgeons to redevelop as the Firoz Lalji Global Hub. |
| 2017 | Campus cleaners contracted via Noonan Services went on weekly strikes, protesting unfair dismissals and demanding employment rights matching in-house employees. Owen Jones notably did not cross the picket line during a debate. |
| 2016 | The MSc Financial Mathematics program demonstrated an extremely competitive intake-to-applications ratio of just over 4%. |
| 2016 | Lord Myners initiated an effort to increase LSE's endowment fund to more than £1 billion, working with wealthy alumni and launching a new alumni donor campaign to expand financial resources. |
| May 2016 | Angelina Jolie-Pitt and William Hague were announced as visiting professors in practice, joining Jane Connors and Madeleine Rees at the Centre on Women, Peace and Security from September. |
| 2015 | LSE IDEAS was jointly ranked as the world's second-best university think tank for the third consecutive year. |
| 2015 | Beginning of a ten-year period where LSE's endowment more than doubled from £113 million to £255 million. |
| 2015 | LSE purchased 5 Lincoln's Inn Fields, bringing its ownership of buildings on the square to six, which was subsequently converted into faculty accommodation. |
| August 2015 | It was revealed that the university was paid approximately £40,000 for a 'glowing report' on Kids Company charity, which was funded by the charity itself and used to prove its effectiveness. |
| February 2015 | Angelina Jolie and William Hague launched the UK's first academic Centre on Women, Peace and Security at LSE. |
| 2014 | Ranked 10th in Wealth-X and UBS 'Billionaire Census' for producing the most billionaire alumni, and the only UK university on the list. |
| 2014 | In the Research Excellence Framework, LSE was ranked third by cumulative grade point average and had the joint highest percentage of world-leading research among submitted research units. |
| 2013 | LSE purchased the site previously home to the Francis Crick Institute's laboratories at 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields. |
| 2013 | LSE's Grimshaw Club student society was featured in a BBC Panorama documentary on North Korea, filmed inside the repressive regime by undercover journalists. The trip caused international media attention and received hostile threats from the North Korean government. |
| March 2013 | The Land Registry Building was reopened by The Princess Royal as the new home for the Department of Economics, International Growth Centre and its associated economic research centres. |
| February 2011 | LSE director Howard Davies resigned over allegations about the institution's links to the Libyan regime after accepting a £1.5m donation from Muammar Gaddafi's family. An external inquiry was set up to investigate the school's relationship with the Libyan regime and Saif al-Islam Gaddafi. |
| October 2010 | Acquired the freehold of the grade-II listed Land Registry Building at 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields. |
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