London School of Economics

IELTS Standard band 7.0 overall (no skill below 6.5) for most programmes, Higher band 8.0/7.5 for a smaller number of language-intensive programmes; TOEFL iBT 100 (23+ per component) as an alternative. No official lse.ac.uk admissions page directly surfaced in this pass — re-verify against lse.ac.uk directly.

IELTS 7.0 (6.5/component) / TOEFL 100 is LSE's "Standard" tier for taught master's (Law/LLM programmes require higher: IELTS 7.5/TOEFL 109); an upper-second-class (2:1) UK-equivalent degree, commonly expressed as CGPA ~3.3/4.0, is the general academic bar — highly competitive programmes (MSc Economics/Finance) prefer first-class equivalents. An official lse.ac.uk page with this exact figure was not directly captured in this pass — re-verify before treating as final.

Official lse.ac.uk-affiliated sources: IELTS Academic overall 7.0 (no sub-score below 6.5) is the published PhD floor, though competitive funded places often see 7.5-8.5 in practice; TOEFL/PTE also accepted but no single TOEFL figure confirmed centrally. Academic bar is high (e.g. Master's with distinction / CGPA 3.3-3.5+ equivalent); GRE/GMAT required for some programmes. Institution-wide PhD acceptance ~8-10%, below 3% in Economics specifically.