The LSE is located on Houghton Street in London, off the Aldwych. The school is regarded as a major centre of political debate and includes among its alumni 80 members of the lower and upper houses of the UK government and 30 past or present heads of states. A quarter of all the Nobel prizes awarded in economics have been closely connected with LSE, and the School is also regarded as a pace-maker in the study of international relations, social philosophy,anthropology, sociology, and social policy.

Noted alumni

• Oscar Arias (President of Costa Rica and Nobel prize winner)
• George Bernard Shaw (Nobel prize winner)
• Ralph Bunche (Nobel prize winner)
• Bertrand Russell (Nobel prize winner)
• Philip Noel-Baker (Nobel prize winner)
• Sir John Hicks (Nobel prize winner)
• Friedrich von Hayek (Nobel prize winner)
• James Meade (Nobel prize winner)
• Arthur Lewis (Nobel prize winner)
• Merton Miller (Nobel prize winner)
• Ronald Coase (Nobel prize winner)
• Amartya Sen (Nobel prize winner)
• Robert Mundell (Nobel prize winner)
• George Akerlof (Nobel prize winner)
• John F. Kennedy (US President)
• Romano Prodi (Italian prime minister)
• Cherie Booth QC (wife of Tony Blair)
• Edwina Currie (politician, author, radio presenter)
• Mick Jagger (Musician)
• Carlos the Jackal (criminal)
• Sir David Attenborough (TV Presenter)
• Robert Kilroy (TV Presenter)
• George Soros (Billionaire)
• Mervyn Allister King (Governor of the Bank of England)
• Pierre Elliott Trudeau (Canadian Prime Minister)
• Ed Broadbent (Canadian socialist opposition leader)
• Haakon Magnus (Crown Prince of Norway)