<p>I didn't mena to be critical towards the LSE per se, which is a fantastic school, but rather vent at the high cost of living AND the hight cost of graduate school in London. If your Daughter is planning on getting an econ masters from LSE, that probably is a bakable option that will pay dividends in the end. To me, its the same as getting a MBA at a Top Ten school in the states. Your going to be in serious debt afterwards, but the job you will get afterwards will most likely make said debt look like nothing when all is said and done.</p>
<p>What I don't understand is people who pay 40K+ to do a masters in social work at Columbia. Sure the eduation is probably great, but chances are that you won't even be able to work as a social worker after your education is done because you have such massive debt.</p>
<p>That said, one of my political science teachers is an LSE graduate (in economics) and he can't say enough about how much he enjoyed his education and how profitable a degree it has been for him. If that is where you daughter plans to go, and if she can afford it, I would strongly recommend it.</p>
<p>Most graduate programs, at least in the UK, are not degree specific. So you can have a degree in Social Policy and become a banker. What makes you stand out in these cases are probably the university you studied at. Look at many of the top politicians and CEO's many have degrees in history, social sciences, political science, philosophy and etc...</p>
<p>Good luck getting free money from LSE. Their whole financial model is based on attracting foreign students who they can legally charge huge amounts for tuition. (as opposed to British students whose fees are capped by law)</p>
<p>For postgrad the fees are not capped and LSE charges a lot more than other unis even for British students. The cheapest course is about 8.000 pounds and the most expensive (MSc in economics, IR and a few others are about 16.000) The 16.000 price is for all nationalities UK, EU AND others. In my course as I am an EU student I only pay around 8.000 pounds while non EU's pay 12.000.</p>
<p>^^I stand corrected. Still, non-EU/non-UK students are usually charged significantly more than the rest in nearly every program at LSE. And my point still stands that free money from LSE is extremely hard to come by - even for outstanding students.</p>
<p>But for undergraduate your point is correct UK/EU pay 3.000 and non pay a lot more (not sure exacly how much but it's deffo far more). </p>
<p>I got some cash from the LSE and I am not an outstanding student but this may be because I applied really early and there was little competition at that stage :-) Another girl from my course that comes from North America also got a </p>
<p>Ah...I never speculated my D would be getting a fellowship <em>from</em> LSE. There are fellowships available from other sources. Otherwise, please carry on...this is all interesting and useful.</p>
<p>The non-trivial side question is whether LSE would let her take the one-year program instead of the two-year program even though she doesn't have an undergrad Econ degree...however, she'll have several Econ courses and a Math degree. But I suspect that's something that only LSE can answer when her app & transcript come in.</p>
<p>Regarding "free money" from the LSE, my impression is that it really doesn't exist, regardless of how outstanding you are as a student. Same goes for Oxford and Cambridge. Those schools have boatloads of qualified applicants each year, most of whom can foot the outrageous (by my social-democrat standards!) tuition fees anyways, so there really isn't much point in them shelling out cash here and there.</p>
<p>I posted my last comment before the second last one. But they came out the other way around. Is anybody else finding some strange bugs with collegeconfidential today?</p>