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.

 Autumn Term 2026/27

Please note that new MRes students should refer to the Student Services Centre webpages for information on enrolment dates and arrangements, as enrolment for these programmes is managed directly by the Student Services Centre.

If you are unable to attend the enrolment session allocated to your programme, you may attend the alternative session scheduled on the same day.

If you are unable to attend either session, you may complete your enrolment during the late enrolment period, which will run from Thursday 24 September 2026 to Friday 25 September 2026.

Wednesday 26 August 2026 - 10:00am -12:00pm

• MPhil/PhD in Environmental Economics
• MPhil/PhD in Economic Geography student taking EC400 pre-sessional

Wednesday 16 September 2026 - 10:00am -12:00pm

• MPhil/PhD in Accounting
• Research Exchange in Accounting
• Visiting Research Student in Accounting
• Visiting Research Student in Anthropology
• Research Exchange in Dept of Anthropology 

Wednesday 16 September 2026 - 2:00-4:00pm

• MPhil/ PhD in Economic History
• Visiting Research Student in Economic History
• MPhil/PhD in European Studies
• Visiting Research Student in European Studies
• Research Exchange in European Studies
• Visiting Research Student in Finance

Thursday 17 September 2026 - 10:00am -12:00pm

• MPhil/PhD in Gender
• MPhil/PhD in Gender (Social Research Methods)
• Visiting Research Student in Gender Studies
• Research Exchange in Dept of Gender
• MPhil/PhD in Environmental Policy and Development

Thursday 17 September 2026 - 2:00- 4:00pm

• MPhil/PhD in Human Geography and Urban Studies
• MPhil/PhD in Regional and Urban Planning Studies
• Visiting Research Student in Economic Geography
• Visiting Research Student in Environmental Policy and Development
• Visiting Research Student in Human Geography and Urban Studies
• Visiting Research Student in Regional Planning
• Research Exchange Student in the Department of Geography

Friday 18 September 2026 - 10:00am -12:00pm

• Visiting Research Student in Government
• MPhil/PhD in Health Policy and Health Economics
• Visiting Research Student in Health Policy
• MPhil/PhD in Health Policy and Health Economics
• Research Exchange in Health Policy 

Friday 18 September 2026 - 2:00- 4:00pm

• Visiting Research Student in International Development
• MPhil/PhD in International History
• Visiting Research Student in International History
• MPhil/PhD in International Relations
• Visiting Research Student in International Relations
• Research Exchange in International History
• Research Exchange in International Relations
• Research Exchange Student in the Department of Development Studies

Monday 21 September 2026 - 10:00am -12:00pm

• MPhil/PhD in Law
• MPhil/PhD in Management (Information Systems and Innovation)
• Visiting Research Student in Management
• Research Exchange Student in the Department of Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour

Monday 21 September 2026 - 2:00- 4:00pm

• Visiting Research Student in Law
• Research Exchange in Law School
• Research Exchange in Law School (Marie Curie)
• MPhil/PhD in Mathematics
• Visiting Research Student in Mathematics 

Tuesday 22 September 2026 - 10:00am -12:00pm

• MPhil/PhD in Data, Networks and Society
• MPhil/PhD in Media and Communications
• Visiting Research in Media and Communications
• Research Exchange in Dept of Media
• MPhil/PhD in Demography (Social/Formal)
• MPhil/PhD in Demography/Population Studies
• MPhil/PhD in Social Research Methods
• MPhil/ PhD in Computational Social Science

Tuesday 22 September 2026 - 2:00- 4:00pm

• Visiting Research in Methodology
• Research Exchange in Methodology
• MPhil/PhD in Philosophy
• Visiting Research in Philosophy
• Research Exchange in Philosophy
• MPhil/PhD in Psychological and Behavioural Sciences
• Visiting Research Student in Psychological and Behavioural Sciences
• Research Exchange in Social Psychology
• MPhil/ PhD in Social Psychology
• Visiting Research Student in Social Research Methods

Wednesday 23 September 2026 - 10:00am -12:00pm

• MPhil/PhD in Social Policy
• Visiting Research Student in Social Policy
• Research Exchange in Social Policy
• MPhil/PhD in Sociology
• Visiting Research Student in Sociology
• Research Exchange in Sociology (BIOS)
• Research Exchange in Sociology (Cities)
• Research Exchange in Sociology 

Wednesday 23 September 2026 - 2:00- 4:00pm

• MPhil/PhD in Statistics
• Visiting Research in Statistics
• Research Exchange in Statistics
• Visiting Research in Economics
• Research Exchange in Economics
• Research Exchange in Economic History
• Visiting Research Exchange in Environmental Economics
• MPhil/PhD Cities Programme

Thursday 24 September 2026 to Friday 25 September 2026 10:00-12:00 and 2:00-4:00pm

Late enrolment - If you are unable to attend either session on the date of your enrolment session allocated to your programme, you may complete your enrolment during the late enrolment period

If you have any questions about the on-campus enrolment process, please email: phdacademy@lse.ac.uk

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 enrolment 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.