LSE admissions statistics

LSE acceptance rates and your chances, course by course

LSE's own figures for 2025 entry: offer rates from 9.9% to 17.5% across the five courses we cover. Pick a course to work out your own chances.

Law
LNAT
Applications
3,102
Interviewed
–
Offer rate
16.2%
2025 entry, from the university's own figures. Interview counts not released
What the data shows
UK applicants were more than twice as likely to get an offer: 27.3% against 11.6% for international applicants (2022 entry).
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Economics
TMUA
Applications
2,885
Interviewed
–
Offer rate
14.3%
2025 entry, from the university's own figures. Interview counts not released
What the data shows
When the TMUA was optional (2023 entry), applicants who sent a score got offers 38.3% of the time against 6.3% for those who did not.
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Mathematics and Economics
TMUA
Applications
896
Interviewed
–
Offer rate
9.9%
2025 entry, from the university's own figures. Interview counts not released
What the data shows
In LSE's file of UK A-level applicants, all 41 who sent a TMUA score of 6.0 or more got an offer (2023 and 2024 entry). Sending a score was optional, as it still is, and few did.
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Mathematics with Economics
TMUA
Applications
508
Interviewed
–
Offer rate
15.4%
2025 entry, from the university's own figures. Interview counts not released
What the data shows
For 2023 entry, the applicants who chose to send a TMUA score got offers 54.8% of the time against 8.2% for those who did not. The test was optional, as it still is.
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Mathematics with Data Science
TMUA
Applications
634
Interviewed
–
Offer rate
17.5%
2025 entry, from the university's own figures. Interview counts not released
What the data shows
About 1 in 6 applicants got an offer for 2025 entry (17.5%).
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LSE acceptance rates by course

2025 entry, from LSE's admissions statistics.

Offered a place, 2025 entry

Mathematics with Data Science

18%

Law

16%

Mathematics with Economics

15%

Economics

14%

Mathematics and Economics

10%

Applicants, interviews and offers by course, 2025 entry.
Course	Test	Applied	Interviewed	Offers	Offer rate
Mathematics with Data Science	TMUA	634	Not released	111	17.5%
Law	LNAT	3,102	Not released	504	16.2%
Mathematics with Economics	TMUA	508	Not released	78	15.4%
Economics	TMUA	2,885	Not released	412	14.3%
Mathematics and Economics	TMUA	896	Not released	89	9.9%

Applicants, interviews and offers by course, 2025 entry. Source: university admissions statistics.

Questions about LSE admissions

Which LSE course is hardest to get into?

Of the courses we cover, Mathematics and Economics had the lowest offer rate for 2025 entry: 9.9% (89 offers from 896 applicants), against 17.5% for Mathematics with Data Science.

GhostPrep is independent of the London School of Economics. Figures describe past applicants and are an estimate for planning, with no guarantee of any outcome.