Queen Mary, University of London

Queen Mary, University of London is one of London and the UK’s leading research-focused higher education institutions, ranked in the top ten per cent of universities in the latest Research Assessment Exercise (2008). One of the three largest colleges of the University of London, Queen Mary’s 3,000 staff deliver high-quality, innovative degree programmes and research across a wide range of subjects in the fields of Humanities, Social Sciences and Laws; Medicine and Dentistry; and Science and Engineering.

The College has a thriving postgraduate community of over 2,000 students who are continually developing their skills, adding to existing qualifications and building relationships with academics at the forefront of their field. With over 200 postgraduate degree programmes and a staff and student body representing over 130 nationalities, the College campus is a lively community encompassing each of our three Graduate schools.

In fact, the diverse mix of International staff and students at Queen Mary has been highlighted in the recent Times Higher Education World University rankings. Along with being ranked 120th in the world overall, the College was also placed 16th in the world and 3rd in the UK for the proportion of international students and staff in its learning community. This ranking reflects the cosmopolitan nature of the College campus which in turn mirrors the demographics of London, the world’s most culturally diverse city. 

Across the Graduate schools Queen Mary students are benefitting from studying with some of the best minds in their field; people who are actively contributing to the body of knowledge through public lectures and appearances at conferences, contributions to peer-reviewed journals, and other key publications. We also encourage our graduate students to take part in skills development courses run by the Learning Institute at Queen Mary.

Why Queen Mary?
Excellence in Teaching and Research
• In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), Queen Mary was ranked 13th in the country out of the 132 institutions which submitted for the exercise, according to the Times Higher Education. The Guardian placed Queen Mary even higher, 11th in the UK.
• Queen Mary was ranked 3rd amongst University of London multi-faculty colleges and ahead of several Russell Group institutions, including King’s College London, Bristol, Sheffield, Leeds, Nottingham, Birmingham, Southampton, Liverpool and Newcastle.
• Notable results from the RAE include our School of Medicine and Dentistry being ranked 1st in London and 4th in the UK.
• Other departments with outstanding achievements in the RAE were Linguistics, Geography, Drama, English Language and Literature, Law, History, Computer Science and Economics.
• £5.6 million has been allocated for the upgrade of teaching facilities in 2009/10.

Learning and Research facilities
• Queen Mary has invested over £250 million in College buildings and facilities over the last five years.
• The Lock-keepers Cottage Graduate Centre, a purpose-built research centre housed in a refurbished Victorian lock-keepers cottage on Regent’s Canal.
• The stunning Alsop and AMEC-designed Blizard Building at the Whitechapel campus houses the largest open plan laboratories in Europe.
• Many of the world’s greatest science and engineering challenges are interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary in nature, and Queen Mary has established four interdisciplinary consortia to foster novel interactions and build critical mass around emerging research areas.

Location
Queen Mary’s locations span London’s diverse districts. Two of our four campuses are in East London, in the Borough of Tower Hamlets between The City and Canary Wharf, a multicultural and socially diverse area that is one of the most rapidly developing parts of London. We have the advantage of being the research focused university closest to the site of the 2012 Olympic Games, only two miles from Mile End, where our main residential campus is situated. Whitechapel is home to part of Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Our other campuses are in central London: the School of Medicine and Dentistry at Charterhouse Square is located on the edge of the City of London. Our world-famous Centre for Commercial Law Studies is based at Lincoln’s Inn Fields, in London’s legal district.

Scholarships, bursaries and funding 
• Queen Mary scholarships, studentships, bursaries and prizes amounted to £17.5 million in 2009.
• The College invests over £2 million in graduate studentships and bursaries each year.
• Queen Mary has an extensive International student bursary scheme particularly for those students interested in Science & Engineering taught masters programmes.

Campus Accommodation
Having made in excess of a £250 million investment in facilities, Queen Mary is unique amongst London’s universities in being able to offer an integrated residential campus, with a 2,000-bed award-winning Student Village on its Mile End campus.

From the universities that took part in the International Student Barometer (Summer 2010), Queen Mary achieved:
• The highest rating for international student satisfaction with the accommodation quality in the 1994 group and in London.
• Queen Mary were ranked as number one for international student satisfaction with the accommodation cost in the 1994 group and in London.

University of London
Although the size and the range of subjects covered by Queen Mary give it all the characteristics and facilities of a university in its own right, it is also part of the federal University of London, a wide-ranging body comprising over 30 institutes. Together, these make it the largest and diverse university in the country. It also means that, although Queen Mary is a self-governing institution, our graduate students are able to take advantage of the wide and varied academic research facilities of the University of London. These include the Senate House library, which contains more than 1.4 million volumes, and the University of London Union (ULU), which is amongst the most active and lively in the country.

Contact us
Queen Mary
University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
International Office
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 3066
Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 5556
E-mail: enquiries@london.ac.uk
Website: www.qmul.ac.uk