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. In the 2023-24 academic year we spent £31.8m on supporting students last academic year. 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. We were only able to offer scholarships to 14 per cent of those who applied for undergraduate funding, and demand is growing.

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.

In doing so, you would be joining a community of donors, who over the last 20 years, have collectively provided 249 students with a New Futures Fund Scholarship. 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.