What we do and how we can help departments

We can assist with the development of your academic portfolio, both your existing programmes and new ones, through the provision of market research and intelligence. Employing a variety of methods, including quantitative and qualitative research such as data analysis, surveys, and focus groups, we can help your department remain attractive to prospective students. Find out more about the support we provide here.

Our monthly Market Intelligence Bulletin summarises research and HE news that may impact student recruitment and mobility. Find past bulletins here.

Our weekly COVID-19 Bulletin summarises COVID-19 news and research related to student recruitment. Find past bulletins here.

Get in touch with us

Get in touch with Bea Collet our Market Research and Intelligence Officer.

• Undergraduate Open Days: We organise two Open Days a year for prospective undergraduate students. Open Days are an opportunity for prospective students to visit LSE, find out more about our degree programmes and discover what it’s like to be a student at the School. Academic departments and student support services are asked to deliver talks for offer holders and/or staff information stands. 
• Undergraduate Offer Holders' Day: The Offer Holders' Day enables undergraduate students who have received an offer to study at the School to find out more about their chosen programme and life at LSE, before finalising their firm and insurance choices. Academic departments and student support services are asked to deliver talks for prospective applicants and/or staff information stands. 
• Student Shadowing: Year 12 and Year 13 students from schools and colleges in the UK spend half a day at LSE shadowing an undergraduate student. 
• Taster courses: An opportunity for Year 12 students to spend a day on campus, learn more about LSE and attend taster sessions in their chosen subject. 
• Campus tours: Guided tours of the campus led by current LSE students, followed by an information session delivered by a member of the Student Recruitment and Study Abroad team.
  
  Visitors are also welcome to take a self-guided tour of the campus, using the LSExplorer. 
• Drop-in service: Prospective students can visit the Student Recruitment and Study Abroad office on a drop-on basis to obtain general information about the application process and our programmes.
• Group visits: The team regularly host school visits to the LSE campus for groups of 10 or more students in Year 11 or above from the UK and overseas. Visits typically involve a tour of the campus and an introductory presentation delivered by the Student Recruitment and Study Abroad team. 
  
  We may also be able to arrange a virtual information session for a school group. This would involve an online presentation introducing study options at LSE, student life and the application process followed by the chance for students to submit their own questions. 

See our Visit LSE webpage for more information. 

If you would like to run your own information sessions for prospective students, we can help with advice and guidance, promotion of the event, management of online bookings and related emails, provision of materials, delivering a Studying at LSE or Applying to LSE talk, recording of the event and feedback survey and analysis.

Get in touch

For more information about on-campus events, please get in touch with Alice Else.

The Student Recruitment and Study Abroad team attend a variety of online and in-person events and activities in order to promote the study opportunities available at LSE and provide guidance to prospective students, offer holders, parents/guardians and teachers around the world. 

Our activity includes school, college and university visits, public information sessions, attendance at recruitment fairs, events, education exhibitions and conferences, and meetings with alumni, the British Council, funding bodies and government departments. 

Virtual events and resources for prospective students and offer holders

• Virtual Undergraduate Open Day: Information and virtual resources for prospective undergraduate students, including sessions delivered by current students, academic departments and student support services. 
• Virtual Undergraduate Offer Holders' Day: Virtual resources and guidance for undergraduate offer holders. Resources include recordings of sessions delivered by current students, academic departments and student support services. 
• Virtual Graduate Open Day: Online sessions delivered by academic departments, LSE support services and current graduate students.
• LSE Discovery Sessions: Online sessions involving a short introductory presentation delivered by a member of the Student Recruitment and Study Abroad team, followed by the opportunity for attendees to submit their own questions.
• Destination LSE events: online pre-departure events for undergraduate, graduate and study abroad students who are joining LSE for the first time. 
• Live Chat: Prospective students, offer holders, parents/guardians and teachers/advisers can submit their questions to a member of the Student Recruitment and Study Abroad team.
• Webinars: A series of webinars providing an overview of the study options available at LSE, student life and making a competitive application. 

Visit our Experience LSE webpage for more information.

Events for teachers and advisers

• Advising the Advisers conference for teachers and higher education advisers
• World Class Study in London Counsellors' Conference: A conference organised in collaboration with Imperial College London, King’s College London, LSE, SOAS and UCL. The conference provides an opportunity for teachers and counsellors to find out more about the participating institutions, our admissions processes and policies, and learn how best to support their students. 
• World Class Study in London regional information sessions for UK teachers and advisers: Information sessions for teachers and advisers, held alongside representatives from Imperial College London, King’s College London, SOAS and UCL. 
• Visit our Information for teachers and schools webpages for more information. 

Get in touch

For more information about student recruitment activities please get in touch with Will Breare-Hall.

View our upcoming events and activities.