London, United Kingdom
The London School of Economics and Political Science was founded in 1895 by Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Graham Wallas, and George Bernard Shaw, with the aim of advancing the systematic study of society to help address poverty and inequality. Now a specialist social science institution within the University of London, LSE is consistently ranked among the world's leading universities for economics, political science, law, and international relations, and has educated numerous heads of state and Nobel laureates among its roughly 11,000 students, about half of whom come from outside the United Kingdom.