LSE - Student Life

Housing: 8 halls of residence, self-catering apartments, houses and intercollegiate halls. Private accommodation is expensive (always 12-month contracts), and so is the travel involved.

Eats: Quad Cafe (range of budget eats, including tasty paninis), Brunch Bowl (cheap hot meals and other foods).

Drink: Inexpensive SU bars, the Tuns, the Quad and the Underground. Also halls bars.

Nightlife: LSESU's infamous Crush every Friday. Chuckle Club for great comics every Saturday.

Sports: Fully equipped gym, weights, squash and badminton courts on site. Sports grounds in Surrey. ULU's swimming pool and facilities near by.

Travel: STA branch on campus. Safe transport to all halls on Friday nights.

Student support: SU advice and counselling centre.

Financial help: Where something unexpected comes up, LSE good at providing funds. Extensive scholarships, access funds etc; SU administered specialist funds.

Jobs: Some casual work in school and SU; whole of London casual market is within easy reach.

Annual living costs: The minimum amount students say you need to live on each year (covering all living expenses but excluding tuition fees) is £8500 (in school accommodation), £10,000 (in private accommodation).

More info: Get SU handbook and alternative prospectus from the SU. Tel 020 7955 7158, Fax 020 7955 6789, email su.gensec(at)lse.ac.uk, or check website at www.lse.ac.uk/union

Past students: LSE alumni and former staff include 13 Nobel Prize winners, around 28 past or present heads of state, 30 current UK MPs and 34 current peers of the House of Lords. John F. Kennedy, George Soros, Mick Jagger, Lord Young, John Moore, Maurice Saatchi, Lloyd Grossman. Roland Dumas, Carlos (the Jackal), Virginia Bottomley, F Hayek, Cherie Booth, Romano Prodi etc.