LSE is now offering Anthropic’s ‘Claude for Education’ AI technology, to all students free of charge. Claude is an educationally focused AI tool that can help with tasks such as summarising complex information, creating personalised study plans, and assisting with data analysis and visualisation.
Claude should be used in accordance with School-wide guidance on generative AI, its use in research, education, any specific guidance set out by your programme, course or department.
Getting started with Claude:
All LSE students have now been emailed an invitation to access Claude. You can also request access by completing this form.
If you already have a personal Anthropic account associated with your LSE email address, please complete the access form to switch to Claude for Education. LSE’s plan will give you access to more features and functionality than the free personal plan.
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By partnering with Anthropic, LSE is the only Higher Education institution in the UK to offer their students free access to Claude. This initiative ensures equity by equipping students with essential tools and skills for success in an AI-transformed world, while advancing responsible AI deployment across higher education and society globally.
A key factor in LSE's decision to partner with Anthropic is their commitment to responsible use and AI safety. The company guarantees that no student or staff-submitted data will be used to train their models. The Claude for Education plan also includes a ‘learning mode’, which helps students develop critical thinking skills by providing answers that guide reasoning processes, rather than simply providing answers.
Please note the following guidance on using Claude safely and responsibly:
- Do not share any personal, operational, or sensitive data via Claude
- It is not currently possible to ‘lock down’ the instructions or knowledge content for projects, so please be aware when sharing that the project is editable by recipients. Anthropic are working to develop this functionality.
Claude for Education provides academic institutions with secure, reliable AI access for their entire community through an intuitive chat interface with enterprise-grade security and privacy controls.
By making Claude available to you, LSE is not endorsing the unrestricted use of generative AI tools by students. You should always check your specific course and/or department policy on the use of generative AI tools. In addition to your department’s policy (which can be found in your Moodle course, under General Information), please refer to the following information:
Our initial partnership with Anthropic lasts for twelve months until May 2026.
- Licences for final year Undergraduates and 9 –10-month Postgraduate Taught students will be valid until the end of June 2025
- Licences for 12-month Postgraduate Taught students will be valid until mid-September 2025
- Incoming students will receive their licences from mid-September.