London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE
speciality: Social Policy

LSE has not only a immense reputation but also tremendous professors and career opportunities. The programs are engaging, interesting, and the career service staff ensure you find your true calling. It’s expensive from outside the UK but thus far, worth every penny.

LSE curriculum is divided into lectures and class/seminars for each course we selected. In class/seminars we freely express our ideas on certain topic/issues. Usually, we’d discuss over journals/articles and criticise the strengths and weaknesses of those journals/articles and pointed out our opinions. Seminar class encourage students to be critical, and communicative. This activity is part of implementing LSE’s slogan, “Understanding Causes of Things”

LSE is the best university in London, offers you a bunch of job opportunities, great professors and a social network that remains forever worldwide. I’d love to continue studying there my PhD because without doubts it has helped me to be a great professional and really competitive in the labor market.

Amazing environment and professors. LSE offers a one of a kind experience. Bringing in talent from across the world, it’s the perfect place to be exposed to ideas and perspectives and learn not only from books and professors but also from fellow classmates.

The study body is so diverse and interesting, social policy teachers are engaging and care about their students, and there’s lots of recourses for students (I guess because the LSE gets a lot of funding). It is quite career focused but personally I don’t mind this because I find guidance helpful, as someone who’s not sure how to convert their degree into a job. At the same time, many people have no clue what they want to do in the future!

The teaching quality at this university is excellent. All teachers are experts in their field, have great contacts with other leading members of their field and are all very eager to provide help and support.

The academic environment is great, it is intense but that should be expected. There is a lot of academic and administrative support, and the university body is open to discuss topics such as mental health and sexual harassment and actually introduce measures. Due to the fact that it is based in London, you have to consciously make an effort to meet people and make friends, since it does not come as organically (everyone is rushing to get somewhere all the time), but the university, especially on departmental level makes efforts to create informal situations to help that. As well purely academically it is ok to take classes outside of your department which interests you so that is also great. The fact that the campus is in Central London does have an added value. Overall highly recommend it.

LSE is just amazing in any way. I was not able to imagine how this academic experience would impact mu life until I’m here actually. Really appreciating the opportunities provided to grew up both personally and academically.

Nice course, very responsible teachers, friendly classmates with impressive backgrounds, the blended teacher was helpful as I wanted to review the videos after the class but there were many topics I wanted to explore further during the 20 weeks of teaching.

The research for my project was at the forefront of the field of land policy studies and explored many intersections between the field of urban planning and other disciplines. The space and facilities in the college are also very good, including places for individual study and for group discussions and modelling.