Graduate course and programme information for prospective students

The following information provides prospective graduate students with a summary of new and updated course and programme information for the 2026/27 session.

This page will continue to be updated throughout the academic year as changes are confirmed by departments.

Graduate Programmes: 

New programmes for 2026/27

new prog
Department of Accounting
MSc in Accounting and Data Analytics (PDF)
Department of Management
MSc in Management (1 Year Programme) (Work Placement Pathway) (PDF)
Department of Media and Communications
MSc in Media and Communications (Communication, Culture and Global Cities) (LSE and NYU) (PDF)
Department of Methodology
MPhil/PhD in Computational Social Science

Programme title changes for 2026/27

title
Old title  New title
Department of Social Policy
MSc in Criminal Justice Policy MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy
Department of Statistics 
MSc in Statistics (Financial Statistics) MSc in Financial Statistics
MSc in Statistics (Financial Statistics) (Research) MSc in Financial Statistics (Research)

Substantive changes to programme regulations for 2026/27

The following programmes will change their structure, course options and/or other elements of the programme regulations from the 2026/27 session.

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Department of Finance
MSc in Finance and Risk Removal of AC444 (0.5), MG455 (0.5) and SO4C9 (0.5) from papers 3&4.  Addition of new core course FM484 (0.5) to papers 3&4
MSc in Law and Finance Paper 1: FM473A (0.5) replaced with FM483 (0.5)
Department of Gender Studies 
MSc in Gender, Policy and Inequalities Suspension of core course GI417 (0.5) 
Department of International Development
MSc in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies Paper 3 addition of DV470 (0.5) and Paper 5 removal of DV445 (0.0)
LSE Law School
LLM (full-time) Addition of compulsory pre-sessional course LL4LA (0.0)
LLM (part-time)
University of Pennsylvania Law School LLM Visiting Students
Department of Management  
Global MSc in Management New specialsm 'Innovation and Sustainable Business' added to electives list
MRes/PhD in Management (Marketing) Paper 2 core course(s) change
MSc in Human Resources and Organisations (International Employment Relations/CIPD) Paper 4 change from MG4C2 (0.5) to MG480 (0.5)
MSc in Management (1 Year Programme) Introduction of compulsory career series course 'Unlock your Potential: Essential Career Skills for Success' (code TBC)
MSc in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Paper 2 change from MG4G1 (0.5) and MG4G2 (0.5) to MG4G6 (1.0)
Department of Social Policy
MSc in Criminal Justice Policy (Title change for 2026/27: MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy) Paper 1 change from SP478 (0.5) to SP401 (0.5)
Department of Sociology
MSc in Culture and Society Paper 1 change to replace SO4D4 (0.5) with SO492 (0.5).  Paper 2 change from SO492 (0.5) to optional courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s)
MSc in Inequalities and Social Science Paper 2 combined with paper 1.  Paper 2 becomes SO courses only. 
Department of Statistics
MSc in Statistics  Paper 1 change from ST425 (1.0) to ST460 (0.5)
MSc in Statistics (Research) Paper 1 change from ST425 (1.0) to ST460 (0.5)

Suspended programmes for 2026/27

suspend
 Department of Health Policy
 Executive MSc in Health Care Decision Making (in collaboration with NICE)

Withdrawn programmes for 2026/27

withdrawn
Department of Management 
MSc in Economics and Management
Department of Media and Communications
MSc in Global Media and Communications (LSE and UCT)
Department of Statistics 
 MSc in Statistics (Social Statistics)
 MSc in Statistics (Social Statistics) (Research)

 

 Graduate Courses:

 New courses for 2026/27

new course
Department of Accounting
AC461 Advanced Financial Statement Analysis (0.5)
AC462 Forensic Accounting Analytics (0.5)
AC481 Quantitative Methods in Accounting and Data Analytics (0.0)
Department of Government
GV4M9 Twentieth Century European Liberalism (0.5)
GV4N9 Political Theology and Postliberalism - A Future for Political Theory (0.5)
Department of International Development
DV470 Famine and Food Security Crises (0.5) 
Department of International History
HY4C4 Crises and Reforms in Modern History (1.0)
HY4C5 Britain's Secret State: Intelligence and Power since 1900 (1.0)
HY4C6 Women of the World Unite: Transnational Feminisms and Decolonisation in the long Twentieth Century (1.0)
HY4C7 Interwar Internationalism Reconsidered (1.0)
LSE Law School
LL4CU Law of Restitution (0.5)
LL4EHE Global Sports Law (0.5)
LL4LA Introductory Course for the Master of Law (0.0)
Department of Management
MG4K2 Marketing Management (MiM) (0.5)
MG4M4 Understanding Consumer Behaviour (0.5)
Department of Social Policy
SP474 Criminological controversies: Global questions of our age (0.5)
SP479 Lived experiences of harm, violence & control: Perspectives from around the world (0.5)
Department of Sociology
SO4D7 Capitalism and its Critics (0.5)

Course code changes for 2026/27

The following courses have changed codes for the 2026/27 session.  Course codes are used to register you for courses in the School. 

code change
 Previous code  New code
  Department of Management
MG4G1 Understanding Social Problems for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (0.5) MG4G6 Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fundamentals (1.0) 
MG4G2 Social Innovation Design (0.5)
Department of Statistics
ST425 Statistical Inference: Principles, Methods and Computation (0.5) ST460 Statistical Inference: Principles, Methods and Computation (0.5)

Course title changes for 2026/27

The following courses have changed titles for the 2026/27 session. 

title
Previous title New title
Department of International Deveopment
DV444 Global Health Challenges: Epidemics, Disease, and Public Health Response (0.5) DV444 Quantitative Analysis in Health and Sustainable Development (0.5)
Department of Geography and Environment
GY458 Real Property Market Practice (0.5) Real Estate Markets: Data and Practice (0.5)
Department of Management
MG439 Organisational Behaviour for Master's in Management (0.5) MG439 Leading People and Organisations (0.5)
MG465 Managerial Economics for Masters in Management Students (0.5) MG465 Managerial Economics and Strategy (0.5)
MG4F8 Managerial Economics and Quantitative Measurement for Social Entrepreneurs (0.5) MG4F8 Impact Measurement and Management for Social Entrepreneurs (0.5)
MG4J4 MiM Capstone Course - International Management in Action (1.0) MG4J4 Capstone: Management in Action (1.0)
Department of Media and Communications
MC420 Identity, Transnationalism and the Media (0.5) MC420 Media, Culture and Global Cities (0.5)
Department of Sociology 
SO424 Approaches to Human Rights (1.0) SO4D8 Legal and Critical Approaches to International Human Rights (0.5)
SO4D9 The Sociology of Human Rights (0.5)

Suspended courses for 2026/27

The following courses are not available for the 2026/27 session.

suspended
Department of Accounting
AC500 Topics in Accounting Research (AOI) (0.0)
AC502 Foundations of Accounting, Organisations and Institutions (0.5)
AC504 Topics in Accounting Research (AOI) (1.0)
Department of Anthropology
AN419 The Anthropology of Christianity (0.5)
AN420 The Anthropology of Southeast Asia (0.5)
AN424 The Anthropology of Melanesia (0.5)
AN458 Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (0.5)
AN463 Borders and Boundaries: Ethnographic Approaches (0.5)
AN480 Public Anthropology (0.5)
AN483 Anthropology, Art, and Poetics (0.5)
AN484 Anthropological Approaches to Race, Racism, and Decolonisation (0.5)
AN492 Anthropological Entanglements in the Middle East (0.5)
AN493 Language, Signs, World, Action! Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology (0.5)
Department of Economic History
EH431 Women in Economic History (0.5)
EH436 Economic History of the Early Modern New World (The Americas) (0.5)
EH444 Population Dynamics and Economic Growth: A Historical Perspective (0.5)
EH448 Craft, Human Capital and Innovation in Europe, 1400-1800 (0.5)
EH452 Latin American Development and Economic History (0.5)
EH468 A Long Road to Capitalism? The Medieval Origins of Modern Economies (0.5)
European Institute
EU430 Europeanisation: Transformation in Europe and its Neighbourhood (0.5)
EU453 The Political Economy of Welfare States and Migration in Europe (0.5)
EU481 The Future: 24-hour Society and its Discontents (0.5)
Department of Finance
FM402 Financial Risk Analysis (0.5)
FM408E Financial Engineering (0.5)
FM409E Risk Management in Financial Markets (0.5)
FM474W Managerial Finance (0.5)
Gender Studies
GI417 Feminist Population Politics (0.5)
GI429 Archival Interventions: Feminist, Queer and Decolonial Approaches (0.5)
Department of Geography and Environment
GY415 Local Capacity and Economic Development Policy (0.5)
GY431 Cities, People and Poverty in the South (0.5)
GY439 Cities, Politics and Citizenship (0.5)
GY441 The Politics of Housing (0.5)
GY470 Urban Africa (0.5)
GY471 Urban environments and more-than-human cities (0.5)
GY477 Race, Capitalism and Resistance (0.5)
GY479 Urban Transformations (0.5)
GY480 Remaking China: Geographical aspects of Development and Disparity (0.5)
Department of Government
GV408 Contemporary Disputes about Justice (0.5)
GV4B7 Freedom and Capitalism (0.5)
GV4C9 Globalization and Democratization in Southeast Asia (0.5)
GV4E3 Conflict and State-Building in Eastern Europe and Eurasia (0.5)
GV4F5 Advanced Study of Key Political Thinkers (0.5)
GV4H1 Chinese Political Thought (0.5)
GV4H6 Behavioural Political Economy (0.5)
GV4J4 Citizen Representation and Democracy in the European Union (0.5)
GV4J8 Middle East Politics in Transnational Perspective (0.5)
GV4J9 Populism (0.5)
GV4K7 Conflict and Cooperation: Key Debates (0.5)
GV4L9 Political Participation and Representation in Latin America (0.5)
GV4N9 Political Theology and Postliberalism - A Future for Political Theory (0.5)
Department of Health Policy
HP435 Global Access to Medicines (0.5)
HP4F1 Impact Assessment of Health Care Policies and Interventions (0.5)
HP4F5E Regulation of Health and Health Care Systems (0.5)
HP4G2E Principles of Health Technology Assessment (0.5)
HP4G3E Cost-effectiveness and Value Assessment in Healthcare (0.5)
Department of International Development
DV434 Human Security (0.5)
DV454 Gender, labour markets and social change in the Global South: theory, evidence, public action (0.5)
DV456 Population, Health and Development: Evidence and Projections (0.5)
Department of International History
HY432 From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers: the End of the Cold War Era, 1979-1999 (1.0)
HY435 Political Islam from Ibn Taymiyya to ISIS (1.0)
HY465 The International History of the Balkans since 1939: State Projects, Wars, and Social Conflict (1.0)
HY4B3 Citizenship in 20th century political thought: intellectual history in case studies (0.5)
HY4B4 Maritime Asia in Transition, 1405-1839 (0.5)
Department of International Relations
IR415 SPECIAL TOPIC: Theory/ Area/History (1.0)
IR429 SPECIAL TOPIC: International Political Economy (1.0)
IR445 Global Politics of China (1.0)
IR465 SPECIAL TOPIC: International Institutions, Law and Ethics (1.0)
IR472 SPECIAL TOPIC: Security and Statecraft (0.5)
IR494 Conflict and Peacebuilding (0.5)
IR495 The Politics of Displacement and Refuge (0.5)
LSE Law School
LL400E European Capital Markets Law (0.5)
LL404E European and UK Human Rights Law (0.5)
LL448E Terrorism and the Rule of Law (0.5)
LL468 European Human Rights Law (0.5)
LL469 UK Human Rights Law (0.5)
LL4AS International Criminal Law: Prosecution and Practice (0.5)
LL4BH Law and Government of the European Union (0.5)
LL4BV Transnational Environmental Law (0.5)
LL4C2 World Poverty and Human Rights (0.5)
LL4CE Security and Criminal Law (0.5)
LL4CP Tax Avoidance (0.5)
LL4EA Race, Class, and Law (0.5)
LL4FG International Financial Law (0.5)
LL4FH European Capital Markets Law (0.5)
LL4H4 International Financial Law (0.5)
Department of Management
MG401 Operations Management for Management Consultancy (0.5)
MG402 Public Management: A Design-Oriented Approach (0.5)
MG409 Auctions and Game Theory (0.5)
MG456 Group & Team Decision-Making Processes (0.5)
MG460 Emergencies Management: Humanitarian Intervention and Digital Innovation (0.5)
MG479 Information Systems for the Public Sector: Digital Government and Service Innovation (0.5)
MG483 eHealth: Policy, Strategy and Systems (0.5)
MG4F5 Business in the Global Environment (0.5)
MG4G4 Topics in Management Research (0.5)
Department of Mathematics
MA408 Topics in Discrete Mathematics (0.5)
MA434 Algorithmic Game Theory (0.5)
Department of Media and Communications
MC407 International Media and The Global South (0.5)
MC428 Media Culture and Neoliberalism in the Global South (0.5)
Department of Methodology
MY428 Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis (0.5)
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
PH436 Set Theory (0.5)
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
PB424 Organisational Life (0.5)
PB425 Organisations, Groups and Identity (0.5)
PB437 Conversation Analysis and the Science of Social Interaction (0.5)
PB452 Behavioural Science for Health and Crises Responses (0.5)
School of Public Policy
PP411A Political Entrepreneurship (0.5)
PP412 Cold War II? Public Policy Implications of US-China Relations in the 2020s (0.5)
PP417A The Practice of Effective Climate Policy (0.5)
PP423 Anticipatory Policymaking (0.5)
PP431 Reimagining Capitalism (0.5)
PP449 Comparative Political Economy and Development (0.5)
PP450 Public Organisations: Theory and Practice (0.5)
PP452 Applying Behavioural Economics for Social Impact: Design, Delivery, Evaluation and Policy (0.5)
PP454 Development Economics (1.0)
PP4G3 Designing and Managing Change in the Public Sector (0.5)
PP4X6 Welfare Analysis and Measurement (1.0)
Department of Social Policy
SP442 The Future of Work and Social Policy (0.5)
Department of Sociology
SO427 Modern Social Thought (0.5)
SO454 Families and Inequalities (0.5)
SO457 Political Reconciliation (0.5)
SO470 The Sociology of Markets (0.5)
SO475 Material Culture and Design (0.5)
SO479 Human Rights and Postcolonial Theory (0.5)
SO489 Family and International Migration (0.5)
SO4C3 Social Mobility, Politics and Meritocracy (0.5)
Department of Statistics
ST416 Multilevel Modelling (0.5)

Withdrawn courses from 2026/27

The following courses have been withdrawn from the 2026/27 session.

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School of Public Policy
PP414W Policy-Making: Process, Challenges and Outcomes (0.5)
PP4E4 Analytic frameworks for policy evaluation (0.5)
PP4J4 Designing and Implementing Evidence-Informed Policies and Programmes (0.5)