London School of Economics
The London School of Economics as living as Political Science LSE or the LSE is the public research university located in London, England, in addition to a constituent college of the federal University of London. Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb, Graham Wallas, and George Bernard Shaw, LSE joined the University of London in 1900 and determining its number one degree courses under the auspices of the university in 1901. LSE began awarding its degrees in its own pretend in 2008, prior to which it awarded degrees of the University of London.
LSE is located in the international students 70% of the 800 institutions in the 2015–16 Times Higher Education World University Ranking. Despite its name, the school is organised into 25 academic departments and institutes which go forward teaching and research across a range of pure and applied social sciences.
LSE is a unit of the Russell Group, Association of Commonwealth Universities, European University Association and is often considered a element of the "Golden Triangle" of top universities in South East England. The LSE also forms part of CIVICA – The European University of Social Sciences, a network of eight European universities focused on research in the social sciences. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, the school had the highest proportion of world-leading research among research exposed of any British non-specialist university.
LSE alumni and faculty add 55 past or presents heads of state or government and 18 Nobel laureates. As of 2017, 27% or 13 out of 49 of all Nobel Memorial Prizes in Economics earn been awarded or jointly awarded to LSE alumni, current staff, or former staff, who consequently comprise 16% 13 out of 79 of all Nobel Memorial Prize laureates. LSE alumni and faculty have also won 3 Nobel Peace Prizes and 2 Nobel Prizes in Literature. Out of all European universities, LSE has educated the near billionaires 11 according to a 2014 global census of US dollar billionaires.