MSc Offer Holders

These pages relate to 2025/26 entry and will be updated regularly. Please continue to check this page for updates.

Welcome to the MSc offer holder page.We look forward to you joining us here at LSE in the coming academic year and more importantly to the Department of Economics! This page will provide you with essential information relating to your programme.

Mini Staskus
Head of Programme Delivery

Email: l.staskus@lse.ac.uk

Kelly Lewis
MSc Programme Manager (MSc Economics and MSc EME Programme)

Contact me: econ.msc@lse.ac.uk

Rudi Clayton
MSc Programme Manager (MSc Economics Two Year Programme)

Contact me: econ.msc@lse.ac.uk

Professor Dimitra Petropoulou
MSc Economics Programme Director

MSc Economics Programme Regulations
*2025/26 Programme Regulations are subject to changes*

Dr Vassilis Hajivassiliou
MSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics Programme Director

MSc EME Programme Regulations
*2025/26 Programme Regulations are subject to changes*

Professor Frank Cowell
MSc Economics (Two Year Programme) 1st Year Students Programme Director

MSc Economics (Two Year) Programme Regulations
*2025/26 Programme Regulations are subject to changes*

We’ll have a virtual Q&A session in June where you’ll have an opportunity to meet your MSc Programme Director and the staff who will support you throughout your programme.

We’ll share the date, time and registration information with you closer to the time.

Please see key dates for your programme of study below.

MSc Economics/MSc Economics (Two Year Programme) Finalists

EC400 Introductory Course	Detailed information will be circulated in July 2025 and students are expected to be available for teaching from late August and throughout September 2025.
Campus Enrolment	EC400: Wednesday 27 August 2025
Orientation & Welcome	Thursday 28 August - Friday 29 August 2025
Teaching Week 1	Monday 1 September - Friday 5 September 2025
Teaching Week 2	Monday 8 September - Friday 12 September 2025
Teaching Week 3	Monday 15 September - Friday 19 September 2025
Exams	EC400: Monday 22 September - Tuesday 23 September 2025

MSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics

EC451 Introductory Course	Detailed information will be circulated in July 2025 and students are expected to be available for teaching from late August and throughout September 2025.
Campus Enrolment	EC451: Tuesday 26 August 2025
Orientation & Welcome	Wednesday 27 August - Friday 29 August 2025
Teaching Week 1	Monday 1 September - Saturday 6 September 2025
Teaching Week 2	Monday 8 September - Saturday 13 September 2025
Teaching Week 3	Monday 15 September - Saturday 20 September 2025
Exams	EC451: Monday 22 September - Tuesday 23 September 2025

MSc Economics (Two Year Programme) Prelims

EC2A0 Introductory Course	Detailed information will be circulated in July 2025 and students are expected to be available for teaching from the start of August 2025.
Campus Enrolment* (EC2A0 pre-sessional)	EC2A0: Tuesday 26 August 2025
Teaching Week 1	Monday 1 September - Friday 5 September 2025
Teaching Week 2	Monday 8 September - Friday 12 September 2025
EC2A0 Test and Matrix Algebra Workshops	EC2A0: w/c Monday 15 September 2025

*If you are a continuing Two Year Programme student (a 'finalist'), you are not required to complete campus enrolment again. You only need to complete online re-registration when invited to do so in mid-August.

Two Year MSc Economics Finalists are expected to attend EC400 teaching, please refer to the above table for the dates of this pre sessional course.

Autumn Term	Monday 29 September - Friday 12 December 2025
January Exams	Week 0, Winter Term: Wednesday 7 January - Friday 16 January 2026
Winter Term	Monday 19 January - Thursday 2 April 2026
Spring Term	Tuesday 5 May - Friday 19 June 2026

Some pre-sessional classes will take place on Saturdays.

Lectures and classes can take place any time between 9am - 7pm, Monday to Friday.  There will be no Saturday classes during term time.

Students timetables will be available from Welcome Week onwards.

You can see sample timetables for your pre-sessional courses below. Please note that these sample timetables have been provided as a point of reference only.

EC2A0 Sample Timetable (An updated timetable will be available soon)
EC400 Sample Timetable
EC451 Sample Timetable

Visit LSE Term Dates for term dates, public holidays and School closure dates.

Every MSc programme at LSE has a set of programme regulations, which outline the courses that you are permitted to take. Unless your regulations specifically state that you are able to take a course from outside the regulations with permission, then you are expected to only choose courses listed in your programme regulations. The Programme Regulations below are for the 2024/25 academic year. The Programme Regulations for the 2025/26 academic year are subject to changes:
-          MSc Economics

-          MSc Economics (Two Year Programme)

-          MSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics
If you wish to take an optional course outside the Economics Department, you should check the relevant course guide for any instructions on enrolment deadlines and/or contact the department concerned if the procedure for signing up is not clear. The Department of Economics will not be able to help with queries about courses in other departments.
You will register for your courses online via a platform called LSE for You. You can find information on how to make your LSE Taught Postgraduate course choices here.
You must be signed up for 4 units of courses from within your programme regulations and must be registered on all Autumn and Winter term courses when Graduate Course Choice closes in October. Compulsory courses will have already been selected for you.
It may be possible for you to audit courses of interest. Auditing is when you attend only the lectures of a course, with the permission of the lecturer. Many courses will also allow you to access the online class materials and reading materials of a course in Moodle.

However, do note that you are not formally enrolled on the course. This means that you are not permitted to attend seminars or to take the assessment of a course, and it will not appear on your final transcript. You do not need to request to audit a course via the course choice system. Instead, you should approach the course convenor directly to ask for permission to audit their course.

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If you have any queries about your offer (e.g. submission of transcripts, meeting offer conditions or deferred entry), please see the LSE Offer Holder page or contact our Admissions Team.