London School of Economics and Political Science Courses

Career Certificate

Negotiation Programme

Build a negotiation toolkit: apply principled negotiation and strategy while working with subconscious bias, body language, emotions, culture, power, and influence to manage conflict.

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• 6 weeks, 8 hours/week
• 14th Oct, 2026
• Paid Course

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Data Analysis for Management

Analyse data to guide management decisions: model uncertainty, quantify risk with probability, run statistical inference, forecast time series, and report findings in Tableau.

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• 8 weeks, 8 hours/week
• 11th Nov, 2026
• Paid Course

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Real Estate Economics and Finance

Evaluate investment properties: analyze city economies, real estate supply and demand, market cycles, property pricing and valuation, mortgages, and sustainable real estate.

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• 8 weeks, 8 hours/week
• 30th Sep, 2026
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Public Policy Analysis

Analyze public policy with institutional and strategic frameworks, apply quantitative skills, run evidence-based policy evaluations, and communicate persuasive recommendations to policy stakeholders.

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• 10 weeks, 8 hours/week
• 4th Nov, 2026
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Machine Learning: Practical Applications

Implement regression, variable selection and shrinkage, classification, tree-based ensemble methods, neural networks and unsupervised learning in R to guide business decisions with data.

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• 8 weeks, 9 hours/week
• 30th Sep, 2026
• Paid Course

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Data Protection, Law and Governance

Analyse the legal landscape shaping data: digitisation and regulation, data governance debates, data locality and markets, profiling under GDPR, and AI and algorithmic regulation.

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• 6 weeks, 9 hours/week
• 7th Oct, 2026
• Paid Course

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Regulation Strategy

Assess regulatory strategies from markets to nudges, weigh enforcement and self-regulation, judge regulatory quality, and manage compliance risks facing your organisation and industry.

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• 8 weeks, 8 hours/week
• 23rd Sep, 2026
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Risk and Crisis Management

Build a risk and crisis management plan: apply risk processes and tools, learn from disasters, handle transboundary crises, and weigh accountability, transparency, and blame.

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• 8 weeks, 7 hours/week
• 11th Nov, 2026
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Strategic Communications in Society

Build a strategic communications strategy to drive organisational change, navigating VUCA uncertainty, ethical dilemmas, stakeholder and audience relationships, and narratives that shape meaning.

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• 6 weeks, 5 hours/week
• 21st Oct, 2026
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Digital Transformation in HR

Implement digital human resource management: run evidence-based inquiry, collect and analyse HR data, apply AI tools, and lead adoption, change and risk across an organisation.

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• 8 weeks, 9 hours/week
• 7th Oct, 2026
• Paid Course

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Social Entrepreneurship

Build a business plan for a social venture: identify social problems, compare business models and funding routes, choose an organisational form, and measure social impact.

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• 8 weeks, 8 hours/week
• 3rd Mar, 2027
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Managing People and Teams

Learn to inspire and motivate employees, set goals and rewards, manage talent and performance, lead teams across boundaries, and support virtual work and workplace well-being.

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• 8 weeks, 7 hours/week
• 7th Oct, 2026
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Modelling Cost-Effectiveness in Healthcare

Build and adapt decision-analytic cost-effectiveness models in Excel, source and appraise data, run DICE and discrete event simulations, and interpret results under uncertainty.

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• 8 weeks, 8 hours/week
• 30th Sep, 2026
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Financial Analysis and Management Accounting

Analyse income statements, balance sheets and market information, then apply management accounting to delegate authority, measure profitability, and design incentive, monitoring and feedback systems.

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• 8 weeks, 8 hours/week
• 19th May, 2027
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Health Economics and Policy

Apply economic principles to healthcare: analyse supply and demand, health financing systems, provider payment, the healthcare labour market, pharmaceutical markets, and health inequalities.

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• 6 weeks, 7 hours/week
• 3rd Feb, 2027
• Paid Course