LSE only Halls: Bankside (39 weeks), Carr-Saunders (31 weeks), Passfield (31 weeks) and Rosebery (31 weeks). All are 'Catered Halls'.
Advice about Intercollegiate Halls from last year's offer thread:
Personally, I would avoid intercollegiate halls including Garden Halls.
Because of LSE's tiny number of undergraduates compared to other UoL institutions, there will be very few LSE students in these halls. They're 90% UCL and Kings students.
In my opinion, you're a lot better off being surrounded by LSE students because:
- In the first few weeks, when everybody is going to freshers events (both social events/nights out & uni/course-related things), the UCL and Kings students will be attending events put on by their respective universities, and making friends with each other there. You will not be able to go to these events, and you might not have anyone from your halls to go to the LSE events with. Plus, just walking to campus with people in the first few weeks is a great way to make friends - but you'll be going in the opposite direction to the UCL and Kings students.
- If you're struggling with a problem set or essay question, then at an intercollegiate hall the chances of there being another LSE student on the same course as you are vanishingly small. Whereas at my hall, there were at least 50 people other people doing most of my modules, so there was always someone to help me if I needed it.
Overall, you're unlikely to make many (if any) LSE friends while living in an intercollegiate halls. And, in my experience, halls are where the majority of LSE students make most of their friends in first year, so you could end up with very few LSE friends at all, meaning you wouldn't really have anyone to hang out with on campus.
Garden Hall's rooms are undoubtedly nicer, but I don't think it's worth it given how few LSE students will be there. It's great for UCL/Kings people, not so great for LSE people.