Scholarship Fund

We are committed to ensuring that LSE is open to talented students, regardless of their background, and that the School remains the diverse and global community it always has been.

Crucial to this goal is our ability to offer scholarships to talented students. LSE currently commits £26 million each year to essential student support, including scholarships, bursaries and hardship funding. Unfortunately, this goes not nearly far enough to address the urgent need for support among our students.

For every successful scholarship application received from students, there are many more who inspire us, but whom we cannot support. Scholarship need is outpacing our resources. In 2025/26, we were able to support only one in five offer holders who applied for financial assistance.

We cannot meet this growing demand without the support of our alumni and friends. Every gift to LSE’s Scholarship Fund goes directly to providing a scholarship for a talented student, who will otherwise find it difficult to join LSE. With the sharp increases in the cost-of-living, and student maintenance loans not increasing with the rate of inflation, more students than ever are needing help to bridge the gap between their loans and living costs.

Since 2002, New Futures Fund Scholarships have supported more than 230 talented students. Those students are now living in 40 countries around the world. They are teachers, economists, policy makers, lawyers, politicians – each working to support and shape the societies and communities around them.