The London School of Economics is combining what it believes is the best of the traditional masters degree with the best of an MBA by launching a 21-month masters in management programme for those with little or no work experience.

The LSE – the London School of Economics and Political Science, to give it its full title – already runs a successful one-year programme for students with an undergraduate degree in business or related subjects. The extended degree will be a conversion degree for those who studied arts or sciences at undergraduate level and would like to develop business and management knowledge before entering the workplace.