LSE ranked top university in London

LSE has once again been ranked as the top London university in the Complete University Guide 2025, retaining this ranking for the thirteenth consecutive year.  

The School also held its status as the third best overall university out of the 130 universities assessed in the UK.  

Universities are evaluated on ten key measures: entry standards, student satisfaction, research quality, research intensity, academic services spend, spending on student facilities, continuation, student-staff ratio, and graduate prospects 

LSE President and Vice Chancellor, Professor Larry Kramer, said of the news,  “LSE continues to attract top talent from around the world—a testament to our dedicated community of faculty, staff, students, and alumni. It is the great work they all do that maintains the School’s reputation and makes it the exciting and intellectually challenging place it is.”   

The Complete University Guide ranking comes soon after LSE was ranked the top university in London and sixth in the world for Social Science and Management subjects in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024.