To secure your offer, you will need to pay a non-refundable deposit of £4,800. Please read the following information carefully to ensure you are aware of the terms of this agreement. The size of the deposit is a proportionate reflection of the amount of resources the Law School and the Department of Finance ("we/us") uses during the admissions process and to prepare for your arrival at LSE.

For offers issued before May, the deposit will be due within 28 days of receiving your offer email from Graduate Admissions. For offers issued from May onwards, the deadlines will be as follows:

• May: within 21 days
• June: within 14 days
• July and August: within 7 days

Your personal deadline date will be specified in an email from the Programme Administrator, Neha Patel. Your place is not secured until you have paid this non-refundable deposit, which is specific to your MSc programme. You should not confuse the terms of it with any other deposit or payment arrangement required by the School.

Payment methods

You need to make this payment in your Student Payment Portal.

• Log in here: Student Payment Portal
• Locate "Deposit/Pre-Enrolment fee"
  • Select "Pay whole amount?" and proceed with payment
• Jasper Heeks will email you to confirm your place after your payment has been processed
  • Depending on the method, payments can take 2-7 working days to be processed
• Guidance on using the portal can be found here

The deposit is non-refundable and non-transferable. This arrangement means that subject to the circumstances set out below, the School will not refund our deposit if after you have accepted your place on the MSc Law and Finance programme you decided to withdraw from it. Moreover, you will not be able to transfer the money to pay part or all of a deposit or tuition fees for another programme of study at the School.

We will consider the refunding of part or all of a deposit only under the following exceptional circumstances:

• If a student is unsuccessful in their visa application. In this instance, the student must provide us with a copy of an immigration refusal notice, along with evidence that they had started the visa application process in a timeframe, and made a reasonable effort to complete the process, to join the programme.
• If a student does not meet the academic offer condition/s set by us, and the we do not waive the condition/s. The student must provide evidence to us to show that they have made a reasonable attempt to meet the condition/s. English language conditions are not considered academic conditions.

Contact:

Unlike your programme fees, the deposit fee is administrated by the School of Law and the Department of Finance, so please contact Programme Administrator, Neha Patel, if you have any questions about the deposit fee.

Email: law.finance@lse.ac.uk

You need to complete the Offer Reply Form to formally accept your offer. This is available in your Graduate Applicant Portal.

You can find further details here.

Please complete the Financial Undertaking Form to indicate how you expect to pay your fees, and the details of any organisation providing financial assistance. You should aim to submit this by 31 July at the latest.

This is available in your Graduate Applicant Portal.

We have a dedicated MSc Law and Finance Offer Holders LinkedIn group which you can join before arrival. Please note that this group is not monitored by the Department or current students. To join, just click the link below (you will need a LinkedIn account first). Approvals may take a couple of days.

Join the LinkedIn group

To become a fully registered student, you will be required to undertake a two-stage registration process: Online pre-enrolment and Campus Enrolment.

You will receive further information about the registration process in summer 2025.

Campus Enrolment is scheduled for Monday 8 September 2025. This takes place in person on the LSE campus and is where LSE will check your official documents.

You can find further details on what you will need to bring here.

The full-time pre-sessional programme will begin shortly after Campus Enrolment. You will receive more information about this by email in August.

It is important to ensure you begin the visa application process as soon as possible from June onwards. All students who require a visa should review the material on the LSE Student Advice and Engagement Team visa advice webpage.

You can find out how to contact the Student Advice and Engagement Team here.

LSE accommodation

You can find out more about the different accommodation options on the LSE website. Both LSE-only halls and intercollegiate halls (shared with students from other universities) are available. You can also learn more about LSE residences by checking out this Halls at a Glance guide. It gives an overview of the halls of residence, including details about types of rooms, location, catering options and prices. More general guidance is also available from the LSE Accommodation Office. We encourage you to reserve your accommodation as early as possible.

The application system for LSE halls will open in February 2025.

Private accommodation

London is a wonderful city to live in and you may prefer to live in private housing. There are many great neighbourhoods in London, so finding private accommodation can seem daunting at first. The Accommodation Office can assist you with finding private housing and advise on student-friendly options.

You can find information on tuition fee payment deadlines on the LSE website. MSc Law & Finance is a classified as a “Standard Programme”.

You will also find instructions on how to make a payment via the website.

• LSE Careers, the Law School Careers Advisor and Department of Finance Careers Advisors are together invaluable sources of advice and insight, dedicated to advising students on how to develop their careers with deep knowledge of the evolving hiring practices of top law and finance firms.
• Together with the Associate Programme Director and in combination with the great programme of support offered centrally by LSE Careers, we prepare you to enter this highly competitive job market ready not only with the academic skills but also with knowledge of the market to take your next career step.
• The existing and well-established master’s programmes within the Law School and the Department of Finance means you have the best of both.  We have a large and wide-ranging alumni network in these sectors.
• With alumni in top jobs and senior positions in London and overseas, this great international network has brought employment opportunities directly to our current students as former graduates and their employers look to hire the very best.

In addition to your MSc programme you will have opportunity to gain from what is called the 'LSE experience'. Read more about LSE's vibrant campus life and diverse student body here.

To find out more about life at LSE you may wish to visit the LSE Students' Union. The SU is host to a wide range of societies, from sporting, to cultural, to academic - including a number of Law and Finance-oriented societies such as:

• Alternative Investments
• Asset Wealth Management
• Green Finance
• Law Society
• Law Society Pro Bono Division
• Venture Capital
• Women in Law

LSE hosts a public lecture programme featuring over 200 events each year, where some of the most influential figures in the social sciences can be heard, including internationally recognised academics, heads of state and leading professionals. Upcoming events are all featured on the LSE events website.

Previous speakers include Christine Lagarde, Nelson Mandela, Angela Merkel, Robert J. Schiller and Muhammad Yunus.

You'll be taught in a range of whole-group, small-group and plenary sessions relevant to the content being delivered. Some courses will be taught as traditional lectures, some in break-out groups to examine case study material, and some in interactive, discursive seminars, or in real-world simulation exercises.

The majority of the MSc Law & Finance courses are taught in the Marshall Building and the Cheng Kin Ku Building. You can view the LSE campus map here.

Your Autumn Term timetable will be finalised in late September. You will select your optional courses during the first few weeks of Autumn Term and will have the opportunity to change these before optional course teaching begins in Winter Term.

There are two types of course work at LSE, formative and summative.

Formative coursework doesn't count towards your final mark. Formative coursework enables students to develop a sense for how well they're doing in terms of understanding course material.

Summative assessment does count towards your final mark. This can take various forms, such as e-exams/digi-exams, in-class assessments under exam-style conditions., group presentations, individual or group projects, empirical or programming exercises, or class participation.

An indication of the formative coursework and summative assessment for each course can be found in the relevant course guide.

Exams will take place in both the January and Spring Term exam periods. Some courses do not involve a final exam.

For students who are new to studying in the UK it is helpful to note the grading system used at LSE. At postgraduate level the following scale is used:

Students should note that marks above 70 are very good, and anything in the high 70s is exceptional. LSE does not mark on a curve and grades cannot be 'negotiated'.