Jacob King

As a research student and teacher at the LSE, I can say emphatically: don't come here. The student population has literally doubled in the past few years, whereas all the resources have barely increased. The survey and results that take this recent data are still coming in, and within a few years the reputation will not be nearly as high. It also makes the experience here quite frustrating--it is nearly impossible to get a hold of professors or administrators, and there isn't room for the second-year econ research students to have a desk on campus. For holding office hours, they actually suggested the overcrowded on-campus coffeeshop. You are buying a piece of paper if you come here, and it won't take long for the rest of the world to figure out that is all the LSE is selling now.