LSE launches American-style PhD
This is an American-style PhD with entry immediately after an undergraduate degree. (Recall that MAs in economics are not available in top US schools.) The program is wholly taught the first year, involves writing a research article in the second year, and normal PhD work in the third and fourth years. Splendid idea, and a move that should make LSE much more competitive with US institutions: “The new admissions rules also recognize that we are increasingly competing for students in a global market. Like most departments in the United States, we will therefore make admissions offers to incoming PhD students by April 1.”