November 2023 Results

In November we release results for students on taught postgraduate programmes that end in September (in most cases, 12 month MSc programmes).

Provisional marks were sent, by email, on Monday 4 September (see 'Provisional Marks' below). 

Final results and outcomes will be sent by email on Friday 17 November.

Final results are being released slightly later than originally planned because of the UCU Marking and Assessment Boycott. We've taken the decision to delay results publication by three days so that we can ensure that everybody recieves a full set of results. 

September 2023 Results

In September we released results for students that have submitted assessments during the in-year resit and deferral period (IRDAP). 

September 2023 results were heavily impacted by the UCU marking and assessment boycott. Results were sent by email. 

On 19 September we emailed all students who took assessments during IRDAP. The email showed all the marks we had available at that point. If you had a full set of marks we also confirmed your final award, outcome or progression status. Continuing students with missing marks also received their final progression status on 19 September.

For finalists that still have missing marks we sent an update on 29 September; this included information about whether we were able to make an award with a provisional classification.  During IRDAP we prioritised continuing students so that we could confirm their status before the start of the 2023/24 academic year.

Following 29 September we have updated students if their circumstances changed. For example, if we received marks that allowed us to make a final award.

July 2023 Results

In July we release results for undergraduate students; General Course students; GO LSE students; and students following taught postgraduate programmes that end in July.

July 2023 results were heavily impacted by the UCU marking and assessment boycott. We published all results by email.

The first round of results were sent on 14 July and showed all the marks we had available at that point. For students who had a full set of marks we also confirmed your final award, outcome or progression status. For students who had missing marks we explained what would happen next.

Following 14 July we have updated students if their situation has changed. For example, if we received marks that allow us to make a final award or confirm a progression decision. 

Finalists that still had missing marks were sent an update on 28 July; this included information about whether we were able to make an award with a provisional classification.  Continuing students that still had missing marks were sent an update on 14 August; this included information about your progression status. 

Following 14 August we have updated students if their circumstances changed. For example, if we received marks that allowed us to make a final award. 

What time of day should I expect my results email?

It takes some time to send results to students on a particular date. We have to undertake a number of quality assurance processes, generate all the emails and then send them. We sometimes do this outside of normal working hours to ensure we do not overload our systems. This means that your email may not arrive until late into the evening, possibly up to 23:59. We do everything we can to get messages out as quickly as we can, but it's never instantaneous. Please do not worry if somebody else on your programme has received an email but you have not, yours is most likely on the way! 

Students following BA, BSc, LLB, General Course and GO LSE programmes were sent provisional marks, by email, on 7 July 2023.

Taught Postgraduate students expecting results in November were sent provisional marks, by email, on 4 September 2023. 

We share provisional marks with these groups of students to allow you to prepare for your next steps, either at LSE or elsewhere. However, sharing marks early means they have not yet been ratified by the relevant exam boards so they can change. This means that provisional marks emails cannot be used an official record, they are for your reference only.

Provisional marks emails include all marks that are stored in the Student Record System on the date the email is sent. This means that some marks may be missing, the email will explain this in more detail. 

In response to the Marking and Assessment Boycott we have introduced provisional classifications. 

Provisional classifications allow us to award students a degree, even if we're not able to calculate your final classification because you have missing marks due to the boycott. You will receive an award with a provisional classification if you have missing marks, but still meet a given threshold. 

To find out more about how provisional classifications are calculated please read Marking and Assessment Boycott Summer 2023 - Exceptional Degree Classification Schemes for Provisional Classifications.

Students who are issued provisional classifications will be sent a Digital Award Document, an interim transcript and an explanatory letter. We will send these by email at the same time that we confirm the provisional classification. 

Provisional classifications are only avialable to students who are impacted by the Marking and Assessment Boycott. This means that they cannot be provided for students due to receive results in November. 

• Final results are marks which have been ratified by both your department and either the School Board of Examiners or Graduate School Board of Examiners. These will not change.
• Final classifications are degree awards which have been made using a full profile of marks. These will have been recommended by your department and ratified by either the School Board of Examiners or the Graduate School Board of Examiners.These will not change.

If you do not receive a results email at all

• On results publication days - please remember that it takes some time to send results emails. Please do not worry if somebody else on your programme has received an email but you have not, yours is most likely on the way! For more details check What time should I expect my results? in "How and when you will receive your results" above.
• If you have a debt - In line with LSE policy, you will not be sent any results (either provisional or final) if you owe fees to the School. We will confirm if this is the case on the relevant publication date. If you have a debt please contact the Fees, Income and Credit Control for further information.
• If you have an ongoing query or investigation - we will not release your results if there is an ongoing investigation around your results. This could include Academic Misconduct, or another issue we've identified. You will recieve notification of this in advance of your results being published.

If a mark is missing from one of your emails

There are a number of reasons why this might happen:

• Provisional marks emails sent in September will likely not include dissertation, capstone and similar courses, this is completely normal because marking is ongoing. These marks would never normally be available at this time of year and are only published when final results are released in November.
• The mark may be delayed by the Marking and Assessment Boycott. As soon as the mark is made available, ratified and taken through the quality assurance processes we will release it to you. 
• It's also possible that the mark is being held due to an ongoing academic misconduct investigation. If this is the case we will have sent you an email.

If you are a finalist and we do not have enough marks be able to calculate either a final classification or a provisional classification we will tell you during Round 2. 

We will also provide you with a letter explaining the situation and a transcript detailing the marks that we do have. 

We will continue to check your mark profile every two weeks to see if we can provide you with either a provisional of final classification. We will email you if anything changes. 

Please check challenging results for information about appeals and mark checks. 

Official documentation for General Course and GO LSE students (including those on incoming exchanges such as Erasmus) does not include numerical marks. You will only receive an assessment grade and class grade. 

Your home university will determine the subsequent accreditation of the academic work completed at LSE. 

However, to give you an indication of performance, the provisional results released on 7 July will include a numerical mark for your assessments. Remember that these may change, they are simply for your information. 

You will also receive an email, from the General Course team,  shortly after results have been published showing your final numerical marks. Again, this is for your information only and does not constitute a transcript. 

For more information take a look at The General Course - Teaching and assessment.

MRes students in the taught phase of their programme/who have yet to upgrade 

Pre-upgrade MRes students are governed by the regulations for taught postgraduate programmes and managed by the Student Services Centre. As such, your results will be processed in line with those for other taught masters students – for details on timing, provisional results etc. check the sections above.

Provisional taught course results for MPhil/PhD students and post-upgrade MRes/PhD students

For confirmation of provisional results, which would normally have been published in LSE for You, please contact the research degrees programme manager/ administrator in your home department. Please be aware that due to the marking and assessment boycott, some results from the 2022-23 academic have yet to be submitted and may not be available. 

Final taught course results for MPhil/PhD students and post-upgrade MRes/PhD students

For confirmation of final results, please contact the research degrees programme manager/administrator in your home department, after 17 November 2023. If your re-enrolment was conditional upon completion of an annual progress or upgrade assessment decision that was delayed due to the marking and assessment boycott, your final taught course results will be confirmed by your department as part of the progress review/upgrade decision-making process. 

Delayed progress review and upgrade assessment decisions 

If you have questions about the impact of missing taught course results on these processes, please contact the research degrees programme manager/administrator in your home department. Departments have been operating under guidance issued by the Research Degrees Sub-Committee and communicated to staff and students by the PhD Academy in June 2023. This is designed to ensure that students’ enrolment status is not affected by the marking and assessment boycott. Departments have been asked to complete outstanding progress review and upgrade assessment decisions by the end of Autumn term 2023. 

Further guidance 

If you have any further questions about the impact of the marking and assessment boycott on your enrolment or progression, please contact your home department in the first instance. If further guidance is necessary, your department will contact the PhD Academy on your behalf.

Incoming intercollegiate students

Incoming intercollegiate students are those from other University of London colleges who are taking courses at LSE. Results for these students are not published by LSE.  Please contact your home university for your LSE course result. 

If your mark is held up by the Marking and Assessment boycott we will inform your home institution. 

Outgoing intercollegiate students

Outgoing intercollegiate students are LSE students who are taking courses at another University of London institution as part of their LSE degree. Results for these students are published by LSE and where, available, will be included in your normal results emails. 

The marking and assessment boycott is likely to impact these results in different ways. We will however process marks in line with the timeline laid out in "When you will receive your results".

For continuing students with all their marks

Intermediate transcripts are available from the Student Services Centre immediately after the release of results. For more information visit Intermediate Transcripts.

For continuing students with missing marks

We will send a digital copy of your interim transcript by email when we confirm your progression status. 

For finalists with all their marks

Final transcripts are issued using a system called Digitary. This allows you to share your transcript electronically and also order hard copies if required. Your final transcript also contains comparative data which needs to be calculated after results are published. Final transcripts are uploaded to Digitary shortly after the publication of results. For more information visit Transcripts.

For finalists with missing marks

We will send a digital copy of your interim transcript by email when we confirm the status of your provisional classification.

If you have an award with a final classification

You will be issued an award with a final classification if you have a full set of results. A hard copy degree certificate will be available for collection during the Graduation Ceremonies. If you do not collect it during at your ceremony you can request to collect it from the Student Services, or have it sent to you by secure courier.  For more information visit Degree Certificates.

If you have an award with a provisional classification

You will be issued an award with a provisional classification if you have missing marks but meet the relevant threshold for a provisional classification.

If you have a provisional classification your be issued with a digital award document. This is very similar to a degree certificate but is only valid until you receive your final classification and will only be available as a PDF document. You will receive this digital document by email when we confirm the status of your provisional classification. As these are provisional classifications we are not able to produce hard copy documents. 

If we cannot make a provisional classification

If we cannot make a final award as a result of the marking and assessment boycott, and you do not meet the threshold for a provisional classification we will provide you with a letter explaining your circumstances. This letter will be sent when we confirm the status of your provisional classification.

You should be able to use this letter, alongside your partial transcript, in place of a degree certificate.