Campus Enrolment

You will receive an email notification when it is time to pre-enrol online for your programme.

As part of the online pre-enrolment process, you will activate your LSE network and email accounts. Once you have completed online pre-enrolment and activated your accounts, you will have access to online resources and teaching after approximately one hour's time once our systems have updated. The online pre-enrolment process will help to ensure that we have all the necessary and up to date information about you, including your current plans for arrival on campus.

As part of the online pre-enrolment process you will need to complete the following steps.

• Check and update, if necessary, your addresses, emergency contact details and the monitoring information that you provided when you applied.
• Tell us when you will join us in London. Students are expected to arrive in London for the start of their programme.
• Provide some additional information for the Careers Team – this is to help us better understand how we can best support you.
• Provide some additional information about caring responsibilities - this is to help us better understand caring responsibilities of the LSE student community in order to appropriately align our services.
• Provide identity documents - if you are not expecting to attend in-person teaching from the beginning of your main programme, you will be asked to upload a clear image/scan of the photograph page of your current passport and, where relevant - and if available at this time - evidence of your immigration permission for the UK.
• Confirm your acceptance of the relevant Conditions of Registration and Enrolment.
• Download your Pre-enrolment Pass that you can use on campus for temporary access when you first arrive.

Finally, please remember that online enrolment is only the first part of the overall enrolment process. When you arrive on campus, you will be required to attend an on campus enrolment session. (Details on this are provided below, under "When is campus enrolment?") You will only become a fully enrolled student with access to the LSE’s on campus, physical resources and in-person teaching after you have completed on campus enrolment.  

It is very important that you attend campus enrolment.

Campus enrolment takes place in-person and is where we will check your official documents, including passport and visa. Please ensure that all admissions conditions have been completed before you come to the PhD Academy to enrol in person, as you will not be able to complete the campus enrolment process until all conditions have been met.

Once you have completed campus enrolment, you will be issued with an LSE Student ID Card, which will allow you to access campus, including on-campus teaching and services.

 For your on-campus enrolment session please ensure that you meet the following expectations.

• Please attend only the session for which you have been allocated.
• Please ensure that you have checked the Graduate Admissions Application Tracker and fulfilled any outstanding requirements associated with your admissions offer before you come to the PhD Academy for on campus enrolment. We will not be able to complete your enrolment if there are outstanding requirements associated with your admissions offer.

 Winter and Spring Terms 2024/5

If you are due to enrol on a progamme either in Winter Term, or Spring Term, then you will receive an email from our office on when your campus enolment will take place. If you have not received this email two weeks prior to the start date of your enrolment please email us on phdacademy@lse.ac.uk

If you are an MRes student upgrading to the PhD phase of your programme: If your enrolment session is not yet listed, this means that the PhD Academy has yet to receive upgrade instructions from your department. Your enrolment session will be advertised and communicated to your department after these instructions have been reported to the PhD Academy. For information on upgrade reporting timescales for your programme, please contact your programme manager/administrator.

Campus enrolment for MPhil/PhD students, MRes students upgrading to the PhD phase of their programme and visting research students will take place in the PhD Academy, LRB4.03 (Lionel Robbins Building, 4th Floor). 

To find out where the PhD Academy is located please visit Maps and Directions.

Access is via the Portugal Street entrance. Please do not go via the 4th floor of the Library as you will not be able to access the Academy through the library until after you have completed on campus enrolment.

When you campus enrol we are legally required to check your eligibility to study in the UK. We do this by checking various documents. The documents you'll need vary depending on your nationality and visa (if applicable). If you do not bring the appropriate identification documents, we will not be able to campus enrol you.

For details of what you need to bring with you please visit the "what to bring to campus enrolement" page.

In order to avoid delaying your campus enrolment, please ensure that you have submitted all required documents to Graduate Admissions in good time. 

 In accordance with UK Home Office requirements, the School is required to take a scan of ALL students' passports at campus enrolment. 

Instructions on how to activate your email can be found here.

It is important for you to download Zoom and Microsoft Teams. The School has licences for both these applications and you should access both using the School's licence:

• Information on how to download and set up your LSE Zoom account can be found here.
• Information on how to download and set up your LSE MS Teams account be be found here.

You can generate your own student status letters by using this link. 

You can book an appointment to speak with us, here. Once you’ve booked, you’ll receive a confirmation email, which will provide details on how to re-schedule and cancel your appointment.

NB: This system will assume that you want to book an online appointment. If you’d like to speak to us in person in the PhD Academy, please contact us directly using our enquiry form. Please include your name and ID number, availability and brief outline of your query so an appropriate member of the team will be available for your appointment.

If you travel frequently, you might consider purchasing a TfL 18+ Student Oyster photocard to receive a discount on Travelcard and Bus and Tram Pass season tickets. There is a non-refundable registration fee and part-time students are not generally eligible. As transport in London has been impacted by changes due to COVID-19 and guidelines can change, please refer to the information on tfl.gov.uk. You should submit your TfL 18+ Student Oyster Photocard application via the TfL website once you have: 

1.  Enrolled online 
2. Completed in person enrolment 
3. Updated your term-time address in LSE for You to your address in London 
4. Read the terms and conditions for TFL

You can contact the Student Advice and Engagement Team
using their online webform. 

Contact details for the Financial Support Office can be found here.