The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is the world’s leading social science institution for teaching and research. The School’s reputation as a global leader has been built up over the 100 years since it was founded. LSE graduates are found in senior positions in politics, the civil service, business and industry, and international organizations around the world. LSE alumni and former staff include 13 Nobel Prize winners in Economics, Peace or Literature; around 29 past or present Heads of States, 30 current UK MPs and 29 current peers of the House of Lords.

Taught exclusively by LSE faculty, the programme is based on the LSE regular degree programme. The courses are full-time, intensive and challenging, designed to make a valuable contribution to your chosen field, whether studying at University or in your professional career.
Since it was established in 1989, the LSE Summer School has developed significantly to become internationally renowned at the forefront of short course teaching. Over the past 14 years, over 22,000 participants have graduated from the programme.
Participants from a diverse range of backgrounds are attracted to the unique learning experience offered by the programme. Courses are taught by lecturers who are experts in their fields, and combine the very best traditional rigour with contemporary relevance. Many of the faculty are actively involved as onsultants and advisers to companies and Government bodies.
We are therefore delighted to be offering a selection of flagship courses from London programme at Peking University. As with the London programme, whichever the course you select will assist with your research, refresh your knowledge, or further your professional development. We are sure that the LSE programme at Peking University will transform your learning experience.

'There is only one Beida' is a phrase often heard in China, referring to the term the Chinese use for Peking Univer-sity. The University is China's oldest and most prestigious, and is internationally recognized as the leading institute of higher education in the country. Established in 1898, the university has a total enrolment of over 46,000 students, with just under 2,000 international students.
Its outstanding international reputation is based on a wide range of achievements, many in the natural sciences. In 1965 it synthesized Bovine Insulin artificially for the first time in the world. In the early 1970s it developed the first MFLOPS IC computer in China, and in the 1990s, atomic weight of Indium measured by a Peking University academic was adopted by the International Atomic Energy Agency as the international standard.

The collaboration between Peking University and LSE is being organised by CCER.
Founded in 1994, this economic 'think tank' has the largest concentration of Western trained PhDs in Economics in the whole of China. CCER's mission is to mobilize domestic and international resources in order to bring together a group of well trained economists to foster economic reform and development in China and to contribute to the develop-ment of modern economic theory.
In the short time since its founding, CCER has already distinguished itself through its achievements in economics educ-ation, theoretical research and policy implementation. Currently several CCER members advise at the most senior leve-ls, both in the private and public sector on economic policy and the environment.
CCER is located in a restored prince's villa at Peking University, whose extensive and beautiful campus is a model classical Chinese garden. Situated on a small island on the north edge of the campus, this villa now houses CCER with its offices, high-class executive level classrooms and library.

University	THES Ranking	University	THES Ranking
Harvard	1	London School of Economics	11
Uni. California, Berkeley	2	Tokyo	12
MIT	3	Chicago	13
Cal Tech	4	Imperial College London	14
Oxford	5	exas, Austin	15
Cambridge	6	Australian National University	16
Stanford	7	Beijing University	17
Yale	8	National University of Singapore	18
Princeton	9	Columbia University	19
ETH Zurich	10	Uni. of California, S.F.	20