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The university gave offers of admission to roughly 12.2% of its undergraduate applicants in 2023, one of the lowest offer rates across the UK. Bsc Economics is the most competitive undergraduate course at the LSE with over 4000 applications for just over 200 places. LLB in Laws comes second with 2600 applications for just over 170 places. [140 ...
In the UK, ESE is an accredited educational institution; a member of the Listed Bodies [6] with UCAS Accreditation, [7] ASIC Premier Institution Status, [8] as well OIA, [9] and Erasmus + membership. [10] The European School of Economics is also in a partnership with the British Council and IELTS to offer training courses for the IELTS exams.
In the 2021 Complete University Guide, the programme is ranked fourth nationally, reentering the top five where it had been consistently from 2008 to 2020. [8] The Tilburg University Economics Ranking is a worldwide ranking of Economics schools based on research contribution placing UCL third in Europe, and 15th globally. [9]
Taught master's degrees may be awarded by an institution with taught degree awarding powers; master's degrees by research (e g MPhil, MRes), where over half of the student's effort is in original research, require research degree awarding powers. [18] Postgraduate degrees are not normally honours degrees and thus do not add "(Hons)".
Philosophy, politics and economics was established as a degree course at the University of Oxford in the 1920s, [20] as a modern alternative to classics (known as "literae humaniores" or "greats" at Oxford) because it was thought as a more modern alternative for those entering the civil service. It was thus initially known as "modern greats".
A bachelor's degree can be an honours degree (bachelor's with honours) or an ordinary degree (bachelor's without honours). Honours degrees are classified, usually based on a weighted average (with higher weight given to marks in the later years of the course, and often zero weight to those in the first year) of the marks gained in exams and other assessments.
All UK bachelor's degrees are first cycle (end of cycle) qualifications in the Bologna Process. Some awards titled bachelor's for historical reasons are actually master's-level degrees, e.g. Oxford's Bachelor of Philosophy (BPhil). Conversely, the Scottish MA is actually a bachelor's degree which has retained its historical title.
This is a list of university colleges in the UK.Institutions included on this list are university colleges that are recognised bodies with their own degree awarding powers; [1] it does not include institutions with "university college" in their title that are listed bodies as parts of a university (see colleges within universities in the United Kingdom), or other institutions with "university ...