The fee covers registration and examination fees payable to the School, lectures, classes and individual supervision, and lectures given at other colleges under intercollegiate arrangements and, under current arrangements, membership of the Students' Union. It does not cover living costs or travel or fieldwork.

Fees are fixed each spring for the following session only.

All queries regarding your fees and fee payments are dealt with by the Fees Office|.

Fee status classification

On receipt of your UCAS form the School carries out an assessment of your fee status determining the amount you are likely to pay at Registration. This decision is based on guidelines provided by the Department of Education: Education (Fees and Awards) Regulations 1997. Further information is on our fee status classification| page.

Fees for 2012 entry

Home UK/EU fees

In late 2010 the UK Government announced significant changes to tuition fees and funding arrangements for full-time UK/EU undergraduates. These changes will come into effect for the start of the 2012 academic year. Details can be found at www.bis.gov.uk/studentfinance|.

LSE will charge £8,500 a year for all its undergraduate degree programmes starting in 2012. New UK and EU undergraduate students starting in 2012 will be charged this fee. Continuing UK and EU students will remain on the old system of fees and financial support.

Payment of fees

Under the 2012 arrangements, UK/EU students will not be required to pay any tuition fees up front. Instead, the cost of tuition will be covered by a non-means tested government loan which students will only start to repay once they have left their programme and are earning over £21,000 per year.

The tuition fee loan is administered by the Student Loans Company (SLC), the company which also handles maintenance grants and loans for students. You will apply for the tuition fee loan at same time that you apply for your grant and maintenance loan, which is usually in the Spring before you start at University.

Once the tuition fee loan is arranged, it is paid by the SLC directly to LSE after you have registered. The tuition fee loan is not paid to the student.

Students can apply for a loan for £8,500 or for any amount below £8,500 (if you or your family want to pay some of the fee up front).

Interest charged on the tuition fee loan and the repayment terms are the same as those applied to the maintenance loan [

More information about tuition fee loans can be found on the following websites

Directgov |

Moneysavingexpert.com|

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills|

Students from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

Tuition fee loan arrangements are different for students from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Welsh students will be charged £8,500 but will be subsidised by a grant from the Welsh Assembly to keep their payment (fee loan) to £3,465 in 2012.

Arrangements for students domiciled in Scotland and Northern Ireland have yet to be confirmed.

Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish students, including those who study in England, receive their financial support from their 'home' devolved administration. It is a matter for the devolved administrations to decide how they wish to support their students.

Non-UK EU students are generally eligible to take out a tuition fee loan.

Students should check out the relevant website below for the latest information on fees and financial support from their administration.

Overseas fees

For 2012 entry, the LSE tuition fee for new overseas (non-EU) undergraduates will be set later in the year, and published on this page. As a guidelilne, the 2011 fees are shown above.

Overseas students are required to pay this fee in instalments or in full at the start of each year. Rewards are available for early payment, details of which can be found on the Fees Office web pages|.

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