Your chances of getting into LSE Mathematics with Economics, and the TMUA score you need
For 2025 entry, 508 people applied for Mathematics with Economics at LSE and 78 received offers: 15%. Built from the test scores and outcomes of 70 past applicants who chose to send a TMUA score, released by LSE.
Your chances
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- Your estimate from the scores and outcomes of 70 past applicants who chose to send a TMUA score
- Adjusted for your grades, school and where you apply from
- A likely range, with each step that moved it
- What would change your odds, and a card to share
- Applied, 2025
- 508
- Offers
- 78
- Offer rate
- 15%
Maths with Economics selection in 2025
How many reached each stage in 2025. Your own chances appear here once you have answered.
| Stage | Students | AVG | You |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apply | 508 | ||
| Offer | 78 | 15% | ? |
How the offer rate rises with TMUA score
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| TMUA | Offer rate | 80% confidence range |
|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 11% | 3% to 30% |
| 4.5 | 11% | 3% to 30% |
| 5.0 | 27% | 16% to 38% |
| 5.5 | 33% | 23% to 42% |
| 6.0 | 38% | 31% to 45% |
| 6.5 | 49% | 47% to 51% |
| 7.0 | 59% | 57% to 62% |
| 7.5 | 69% | 63% to 76% |
| 8.0 | 80% | 70% to 89% |
| 8.5 | 86% | 75% to 94% |
| 9.0 | 95% | 85% to 99% |
Why you can trust this
70past test-takers
1 yearof scores linked to offers (2023 entry)
1.5xwider ranges, with no other year to test on
Method and sources
This estimate comes from applicants who sent LSE a TMUA score when sending one was optional. LSE has never required the TMUA for Mathematics with Economics and lists it as recommended for 2027 entry. The all-applicant curve uses the 70 applicants with a score for 2023 entry. The UK curve uses the 56 UK applicants in LSE's file of UK A-level applicants who had a score for 2023 or 2024 entry, so UK applicants taking other qualifications, such as the IB, are not in it. Applicants from outside the UK are read from the all-applicant curve. Each curve is a smooth line fitted to those test-takers' offer rates by score, on the 1.0 to 9.0 TMUA scale.
The people who sent a score did much better than everyone else: for 2023 entry, 38 of the 70 with a score (54.3%) got offers, against 19 of the 236 without one (8.1%). So the curve describes a group that chose to sit the test. The share of offers going to applicants with a score has grown (71 of the 77 offers LSE split for 2025 entry), so as sending a score becomes the norm, the real chance at a given score may be lower than the curve shows. For 2027 entry LSE still only recommends the test.
Both curves rest on very small groups, so they are rough. The UK curve rises steeply from 5.0 and then levels off just under 94%, which is a ceiling from a small group and no promise for a 2027 applicant. Below 5.0 the fitted lines sat well above what happened there, so both curves are held at the rate actually seen below 5.0, with a wide range: 1 of 11 UK test-takers and 1 of 9 in all. That makes a sharp step at 5.0.
TMUA scores from 2025 entry onwards are on a different footing from 2023 and 2024 scores: LSE's averages fell sharply, even though the test stayed optional here. The calculator still reads the score you enter on the 2023 and 2024 curves, so the same number may not mean the same thing, and your real chance could be lower or higher than the curve shows. Treat the estimate as a rough guide.
No year could be held out to test the curves, and the all-applicant curve rests on one year, so every range is widened by half. LSE has no grade or school fit of its own here, so the GCSE, A-level and school effects are the ones fitted for Oxford PPE. PPE's GCSE and A-level effects are measured against PPE applicants with the same score, who are unusually strong on grades, so here they are re-centred on the standard offer and used at half size: A*AA with eight or nine GCSE 8s and 9s counts as no change, as leaving grades blank does, and the range runs from no effect to PPE's full size. LSE does not interview, so there is no interview step.
- London School of Economics, FOI 5383 (reply 12 December 2023). BSc Mathematics with Economics applicants' TMUA scores and decisions, 2023 entry, all fee statuses.
- London School of Economics, FOI 6057 (reply 12 May 2025). UK (Home) applicants' TMUA scores, A-level subjects, predicted grades and decisions, 2022 to 2024 entry.
- LSE Planning Division, Applications, Offers and Entrants dashboard. Applications, offers and entrants by programme, 2018 to 2025 entry.
- London School of Economics, FOI 5409 (reply 30 January 2024) and replies of 11 November 2025 and 7 October 2026. Applicants with a TMUA score and offers with and without a score, 2021 to 2025 entry.
- London School of Economics, replies of 12 September 2024 and 19 March 2026. Applicants and offers without Further Maths, 2018 to 2023 and 2025 entry.
- London School of Economics, FOI 5409, FOI 6382 and FOI 6592. TMUA score averages and quartiles for applicants and offer holders, including international applicants, 2021 to 2025 entry.
- LSE applications, offers and registrations sheet for 2020 entry. Applications and offers by fee status.
- LSE BSc Mathematics with Economics course page and Admissions Information page for 2027 entry, Internet Archive captures of the course page for 2023 to 2026 entry, and UAT-UK, Course List 2027 Entry.
- Grade equivalence: Ofqual, grade standards for new GCSEs (2017); Cambridge International, A guide to A*-G and 9-1 grades (2025); Ecctis for the IB, MYP grade comparisons with the GCSE (2021); LSE, BSc Mathematics with Economics entry requirements.
- GCSE, A-level and school effects: taken from the Oxford PPE calculator, whose method lists their sources.
This estimate cannot see your personal statement, reference or contextual data. It describes applicants who chose to send a score in 2023 and 2024, the groups are very small, and scores have run lower since 2025, so a 2027 applicant's real chance could be lower or higher. LSE has told people who asked for past figures that they will not offer any insight on an individual application. The GCSE, A-level and school effects are borrowed from Oxford PPE and may not match LSE. Predicted and achieved grades are treated the same.
LSE Mathematics with Economics admissions statistics
What the numbers LSE has released say about getting into BSc Mathematics with Economics: how many people apply, how past TMUA test-takers fared, and how the odds differ by where you apply from and your grades. The score data come from 2023 and 2024 entry, when sending a TMUA score was optional, and the applicants who sent one got offers far more often than those who did not (54% against 8% for 2023 entry). LSE still only recommends the test for 2027 entry.
54% vs 8%
offer rate with a TMUA score, against without one
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2023 entry, when a score was optional: 38 of 70 against 19 of 236. The calculator's curve is built from those test-takers. LSE recommends the TMUA for 2027 entry without requiring it, and your real chance could be lower or higher than the curve shows.
92%
of 2025 offers went to applicants with a TMUA score
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71 of the 77 offers LSE split, even though the test stayed optional. It was 30% for 2021 entry (23 of 76).
1 in 7
applicants got an offer
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78 offers from 508 applications for 2025 entry (15.4%). It was 29.2% for 2018 entry (96 from 329).
0 of 21
UK A-level applicants without Further Maths got an offer
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2023 and 2024 entry, against 63 of 183 (34.4%) with it.
LSE Mathematics with Economics acceptance rate
For 2025 entry, 508 people applied for BSc Mathematics with Economics at LSE and 78 received offers.
That is an offer rate of 15.4%, or about 1 in 7.
LSE's course page shows 15 applications for each place, which counts students who started: 33 started for 2025 entry. Applicants per offer were about 6.5.
The offer rate was about 30% for 2018 to 2020 entry, about 20% for 2021 to 2024 entry and 15.4% for 2025 entry.
- Applied
- Offered a place
- Started
Applications rose by a third, from 380 for 2024 entry to 508 for 2025 entry, while offers stayed at 78. That moved the offer rate from 20.5% to 15.4%.
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| Entry | Applications | Offers | Offer rate | Started |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 508 | 78 | 15.4% | 33 |
| 2024 | 380 | 78 | 20.5% | 37 |
| 2023 | 311 | 60 | 19.3% | 34 |
| 2022 | 379 | 85 | 22.4% | 41 |
| 2021 | 384 | 79 | 20.6% | 44 |
| 2020 | 353 | 106 | 30.0% | 49 |
| 2019 | 304 | 97 | 31.9% | 40 |
| 2018 | 329 | 96 | 29.2% | 41 |
Did applicants with a TMUA score get more offers?
The TMUA has never been compulsory for Mathematics with Economics. LSE's course pages encourage applicants to take it, and for 2027 entry LSE and the UAT-UK course list both give it as recommended, not required.
Only a minority of applicants had a score, and they got offers far more often. For 2023 entry, 73 of 316 applicants (23.1%) had one, and 54.8% of them got offers, against 8.2% of the rest.
LSE's applicant list for 2023 entry agrees: 38 of 70 with a score got offers (54.3%) against 19 of 236 without one (8.1%), and the 70 took two thirds of the 57 offers.
- With a score
- Without a score
The share of offers going to applicants with a score has grown: 30.3% for 2021 entry, 42.4% for 2022, 66.7% for 2023, 62.3% for 2024 (48 of 77) and 92.2% for 2025 (71 of 77), even though the test stayed optional.
UK applicants with a score got offers 65.4% of the time for 2023 entry (17 of 26) and 73.3% for 2024 entry (22 of 30), against 11.3% (6 of 53) and 18.9% (18 of 95) without one.
These are self-selected groups, so the figures do not show what a score does for any one applicant. As sending a score becomes the norm, the group becomes less select, and the real chance for a 2027 applicant at a given score may be lower than the curve shows.
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| Entry | Applicants | With a score | Offer rate with a score | Offer rate without a score | Share of offers to those with a score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Not given | Not given | Not given | Not given | 92.2% (71 of 77) |
| 2024 | Not given | Not given | Not given | Not given | 62.3% (48 of 77) |
| 2023 | 316 | 73 (23.1%) | 54.8% (40 of 73) | 8.2% (20 of 243) | 66.7% |
| 2022 | 379 | 48 (12.7%) | 75.0% (36 of 48) | 14.8% (49 of 331) | 42.4% |
| 2021 | 380 | 29 (7.6%) | 79.3% (23 of 29) | 15.1% (53 of 351) | 30.3% |
What TMUA score do you need for LSE Mathematics with Economics?
A TMUA score of about 5.6 gave test-takers a 1 in 3 chance of an offer, and about 5.0 for UK applicants.
LSE publishes no pass mark, and the TMUA is recommended, not required.
The estimates below are test-takers' own offer rates from 2023 (all applicants, 70 people) and 2023 and 2024 (UK applicants, 56 people), when a score was optional. Those test-takers got offers far more often than other applicants, so the real chance for a 2027 applicant may be lower.
On the all-applicant curve a score of about 5.6 gives a 1 in 3 chance of an offer. The UK curve reaches 1 in 3 at about 5.0, climbs to 68% at 5.0 and 91% at 6.0, and then levels off near 94%.
Scores have also run lower since 2025, even though the test stayed optional here, so a score you sit now may be worth more than the same number was in 2023 and 2024. Your real chance could be lower or higher than the curve shows.
Which LSE courses require or recommend the TMUA is in our LSE TMUA guide.
- All applicants
- UK applicants
In the raw counts for 2023 entry, all applicants with a score: all 9 scoring 8.0 or more got offers, 13 of 22 at 7.0 to 7.9, 10 of 21 at 6.0 to 6.9, 5 of 9 at 5.0 to 5.9 and 1 of 9 below 5.0. The groups are very small.
For UK applicants over 2023 and 2024 entry, 38 of 45 scoring 5.0 or more got offers (84.4%), 17 of 19 scoring 7.0 or more, and 1 of 11 below 5.0. The levelling off near 94% rests on these 56 people and is no promise at any score.
Offer holders with a score averaged 7.12 for 2023 entry against 6.60 for all test-takers, and 7.4 against 7.1 for 2024 entry. International offer holders with a score for 2024 entry had a middle score of 8.4, and none scored below 7.0.
LSE also released scores for 2025 entry, and we keep them apart from the curves. Among UK applicants who sent a score, the middle score was 3.6 and the middle offer holder scored 5.2 (lowest 2.2).
Scores from 2025 entry onwards are on a different footing from 2023 and 2024 scores, because LSE's averages fell sharply, even though the test stayed optional here. Read them on their own.
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| TMUA score | Test-takers scoring below | Offer, all applicants | Offer, UK applicants |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 1% | 11% | 2% |
| 4.0 | 4% | 11% | 9% |
| 5.0 | 13% | 27% | 68% |
| 6.0 | 26% | 38% | 91% |
| 7.0 | 56% | 59% | 94% |
| 8.0 | 87% | 80% | 94% |
| 9.0 | 100% | 95% | 94% |
UK and international applicants
For 2020 entry, the only year with a split by fee status, UK applicants had better odds than overseas applicants: 38.3% (70 of 183) against 20.7% (36 of 174).
LSE's file of UK applicants with A-level data shows offer rates of 53.3% (49 of 92) for 2022 entry, 29.1% (23 of 79) for 2023 entry and 32.0% (40 of 125) for 2024 entry.
The first two bars come from LSE's applications and offers by fee status for 2020 entry. The other three come from the UK file, LSE's file of UK applicants with A-level data, so the two sets cover different groups.
We hold no later split of offers between UK and international applicants for this course. International test-takers scored higher: for 2024 entry the middle international applicant with a score scored 7.7 and the middle UK one 6.65, and the middle international offer holder scored 8.4 against 6.9 for UK offer holders.
The calculator reads UK applicants from the UK curve. Applicants from outside the UK are read from the all-applicant curve, which blends both groups and may not suit them: an international applicant scoring below about 7 may be read too high.
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| Group | Applicants | Offers | Offer rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK, 2020 entry | 183 | 70 | 38.3% |
| Overseas, 2020 entry | 174 | 36 | 20.7% |
| UK A-level file, 2022 entry | 92 | 49 | 53.3% |
| UK A-level file, 2023 entry | 79 | 23 | 29.1% |
| UK A-level file, 2024 entry | 125 | 40 | 32.0% |
Do GCSEs, A-levels and Further Maths matter?
LSE's standard offer for Mathematics with Economics is A*AA with an A* in Mathematics. An A* in Further Maths with an A in Maths is an accepted alternative.
IB: 39 points with 766 at Higher Level and a 7 in Mathematics: analysis and approaches. GCSE English Language and Mathematics at grade 6 or higher are the minimum.
You do not need to have studied Economics. LSE accepts Mathematics, Further Mathematics and one other subject, such as Chemistry or Physics.
Where your school offers it, LSE expects AS- or A-level Further Maths at grade A. In the data, no UK A-level applicant without it got an offer over 2023 and 2024 entry (0 of 21), against 34.4% of those with it (63 of 183).
Applicants predicted only the standard offer rarely got one: 2 of the 21 predicted A*AA, against 47 of 111 predicted A*A*A*. Groups below that are tiny: 0 of 2 predicted AAA and 1 of 8 predicted lower, and that one was predicted A*A*B and held a contextual offer.
Applicants taking four or more full A-levels got offers 45.2% of the time (42 of 93), against 20.8% for exactly three (20 of 96). These are raw rates, and applicants with more A-levels differ in other ways too.
Across all fee statuses, LSE reported no offers to applicants without A-level Further Maths for 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2023 entry, and fewer than 5 for 2022. For 2025 entry fewer than 5 of 44 UK applicants without it got offers.
Between a fifth and just over a third of UK offers in LSE's A-level file were contextual: 16 of 48 for 2022 entry, 5 of 23 for 2023 and 14 of 40 for 2024. The contextual offer is A*AB with an A* in Mathematics for 2027 entry.
The calculator's GCSE and A-level effects are borrowed from Oxford PPE. The pattern above is LSE's own and shows how much grades matter here.
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| Best three predicted | Applicants | Offers | Offer rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| A*A*A* | 111 | 47 | 42.3% |
| A*A*A | 47 | 12 | 25.5% |
| A*AA | 21 | 2 | 9.5% |
| AAA | 2 | 0 | 0 of 2 |
| Below AAA | 8 | 1 | 1 of 8 |
Questions about LSE Mathematics with Economics admissions
What is the acceptance rate for LSE Mathematics with Economics?
About 15.4% of applicants got an offer for 2025 entry: 78 offers from 508 applications, or about 1 in 7. It was about 30% for 2018 to 2020 entry and about 20% for 2021 to 2024 entry. The 15 to 1 on LSE's course page counts applications for each student who started.
Is the TMUA compulsory for LSE Mathematics with Economics?
No. LSE encourages it and, for 2027 entry, lists it as recommended but not mandatory, as it has for every year from 2023 entry. Most offers now go to applicants with a score: 71 of the 77 offers LSE split for 2025 entry (92.2%).
What TMUA score do I need for LSE Mathematics with Economics?
LSE sets no pass mark. On our all-applicant curve a score of about 5.6 gives a 1 in 3 chance, and about 5.0 on the UK curve. Both curves come from very small groups of test-takers in 2023 and 2024, when a score was optional, so treat them as a guide.
Why might my real chance differ from the calculator?
The calculator uses applicants who chose to send a score. For 2023 entry they got offers 54.3% of the time, against 8.1% of applicants without one. As sending a score becomes the norm, the real chance at a given score may be lower. Scores have also run lower since 2025, so your real chance could be lower or higher than the calculator shows.
Do I need Further Maths for LSE Mathematics with Economics?
LSE expects AS- or A-level Further Maths at grade A where your school offers it. In the data, none of 21 UK A-level applicants without it got an offer in 2023 and 2024, against 34.4% of those with it.
Do I need to have studied Economics?
No. LSE says you need not have studied Economics. It considers Mathematics, Further Mathematics and one other subject, such as Chemistry or Physics.
Does LSE interview for Mathematics with Economics?
No. LSE does not interview for any of its degrees. It decides from your UCAS application, which covers predicted grades, subjects, personal statement, reference and contextual data, plus the TMUA where you send one.
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