Welcome to our arriving students

To catch up on our offer-holder webinars on the structure of the academic year, and the mandatory Master's Graduate Course Selection webinar, check out our Offer Holders webpage for the links.

We are located on the 8th, 9th and 10th floors of the Centre Building (CBG), Houghton Street, at the heart of the main LSE campus. The department's professional services staff are located on the 10th floor.

For more information, accessibility and maps, see our Contact us page.

To become a fully enrolled student, all new undergraduate and study abroad students, and the majority of new postgraduate students, will be required to undertake a two-stage enrolment process: Online pre-enrolment and Campus Enrolment. 

You will receive an email when it’s time for you to pre-enrol online. This is done in stages, starting at the beginning of August.

Students are not able to campus enrol until they have completed pre-enrolment. So, it is important that students complete online pre-enrolment before attending their campus enrolment session. 

Please visit Enrolment for New Students to find out when and where your enrolment takes place, and what documents you’ll need. 

You can also check out the Online Enrolment FAQs.

There will be a wide range of School events taking place before, during and after Welcome 2024, some of which are compulsory (such as enrolment, presentations and orientation sessions) and others are optional.

For more information on these events, check out the LSE Welcome microsite.

We will be holding a full week of Welcome events to help you meet your peers and get settled into the IR community. There will be events introducing you to the department, the people on your programme, and support services around the School.

Postgraduate students will also have specific sessions to guide them through the course selection process.

Find out about our Welcome Events here!

You will be able to see your personalised Welcome events calendar from early September in the Student Hub and we’ll also send an email with more details about the IR Department Welcome events to your LSE email address.

You can visit our Current Students web area to get an idea of what is happening in the department, from social events to how teaching works, to exams and assessments.

You can also take a look at the School calendar.

Once you have activated your LSE IT account, you can check out the Course Finder tool that allows you to browse courses by unit value, keyword, department, and assessment type. You can build a shortlist of courses and compare the Lecture Timetables for that shortlist.

Read our 2024/25 Department handbooks.

If you’re joining us as an MSc student, read this department guide on how to make your Graduate Course Selection (GCS):

Graduate Course Selection FAQs

First year undergraduates - find out more at Selecting Courses.

Taught postgraduates - find out more on the Course Selection webpages.
You can also check out our IR Department Graduate Course Selection FAQs.

Before you arrive make sure you follow us on X/Twitter and LinkedIn, and like us on Facebook and Instagram.

You can also join our private department offer holders groups: 

• Postgraduate Offer Holders 2024 LinkedIn Group 
• Undergraduate Offer Holders 2024 Facebook Group 

Also, don't forget to sign up for the Student Hub and follow our Department page! You will be able to see your timetables and also make appointments to see faculty members via Bookings on the Student Hub.

If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch via:

BSc queries: ir.bsc@lse.ac.uk
Undergraduate Co-ordinators: Hermione Burnett and Adnan Khan

MSc queries: ir.msc@lse.ac.uk
Postgraduate Co-ordinators: Matthew Gaisford St Lawrence and Nick Ortiz

Research/PhD queries: ir.research@lse.ac.uk
Research and PhD Manager: Sarah Helias
PhD Programme Co-ordinator: Amy Brook

Or visit our People page to contact a member of staff directly.