St George’s, University of London
Why St George’s?
St George’s, University of London takes great pride in its distinctiveness as a health sciences university. As it is co-located with St George’s Hospital in South West London, students can walk the corridors from clinical teaching room to laboratory to hospital ward or clinic. The Hospital is one of the UK’s busiest, and serves a community of over one million people in the capital; a community that is nationally representative and relevant to the learning of medicine and biological sciences in their broadest sense.
Why St George’s for you?
St George’s offers a combination of research-focused and vocationally-oriented postgraduate courses. If you are aiming for a research career, our MRes programmes provide opportunities to work alongside established research teams and internationally recognized experts in areas such as infectious diseases, cardiovascular science, neuroscience and genetics. If you are already established in a health services career, we offer postgraduate certificate, diploma and MSc courses designed to support your clinical work and develop your research skills. There is a diverse community of around 400 postgraduate students on the St George’s site, including international students, whom we warmly welcome.
What now?
We invite you to visit us to experience ‘George’s’ life for yourself. Choosing a university and a postgraduate degree programme requires considerable thought. Come along to one of our open evenings to find out more about the teaching and facilities on offer at St George’s.
A living heritage
With a history stretching back over 250 years St George’s truly embodies a living heritage. Among our alumni we can lay claim to both the ‘father of modern surgery’ and the ‘father of modern immunology’. John Hunter (1728-1793) pioneered an experimental basis for surgical practice and during his career not only was he surgeon at St George’s, but also Surgeon General to the British Army and personal surgeon to King George III. Edward Jenner (1749-1823) was the pioneer of immunology whose work on developing the smallpox vaccine, the first successful vaccine developed anywhere in the world, has been credited as having saved more lives than the work of any other person. Henry Gray (1827-1861) was Anatomy Lecturer at St George’s when he started writing an inexpensive and accessible textbook for medical students. Along with his St George’s colleague (Henry Vandyke Carter (1831-1897)) he completed the Anatomy Descriptive and Surgical, more commonly known as Gray’s Anatomy, a textbook that is today in its 40th edition.
Throughout our long and illustrious history we have been at the forefront of medical advances. It is with that spirit of enquiry that, in 2010, we celebrated the 30th anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, and in 2011 the 40th anniversary of the world’s first computerised tomographic (CT) head scan, carried out on a patient within our partner hospital with which we share a site and clinical resources. In 1958 St George’s was the first hospital in the UK to carry out the insertion of a heart pacemaker, performing the UK’s 500,000th pacemaker operation just over 50 years later.
Results
In the last Research Assessment Exercise (RAE2008), over 85 percent of our researchers were judged to be internationally excellent or recognized internationally in terms of originality, significance and rigour (2* and 3*).
Research
St George’s offers a wide range of opportunities for translational research, including laboratory-based investigations, clinical studies and health service evaluations. These are supported by the close integration of academic and clinical staff on the St George’s site, and by a wide network of collaborating trusts and academic partners in South West London. Currently 150 MPhil/PhD students and 70 MD (Res) students attend our full-time and part-time programmes.
Partnerships
As well as our partnership with St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust we are also very committed to our collaborations with other higher-education institutions, especially our long-term partner Kingston University, and, more recently, Royal Holloway, University of London, the combined strengths of whom help us to deliver the highest standards of healthcare in the UK.
Subjects offered
Whatever point you have reached on your chosen career path, our taught courses and research degrees are designed to help you move forward, providing excellent opportunities for integrated work with clinical and laboratory researchers.
• Advanced Practice MSc
• Biomedical Science MRes
• Clinical Practice MRes
• Health Sciences MSc
• Maternal and Child Health MSc
• Physician Assistant Studies PgDip
• Rehabilitation MSc
Resources
Graduate School
Postgraduate study at St George’s takes place within the framework of a Graduate School which provides a focus for organization, administration and support.
The Head of the Graduate School works closely with two deputies who oversee all our taught postgraduate courses and research degrees. The School encompasses the graduate section of the Registry and collaborates with the St George’s Postgraduate Society to enhance the training and pastoral care of every postgraduate student.
IT facilities
Of our three IT suites, two house over 100 workstations. One of these can be used overnight and to accommodate open-access or formal group-teaching sessions. Elsewhere on campus, there are numerous wireless hotspots.
Network software applications on campus include Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SPSS, and Internet and email access are readily available. If you need it, IT support is on tap, and the library runs excellent training courses.
Library facilities
Our library gives you access to extensive print collections and thousands of electronic journals and databases to help you select the best information for your studies.
It also offers silent study space, social learning space, group discussion rooms and computing facilities. Our library staff will teach you how to make the most of our excellent resources, whether you choose to study on-site or off. For full details please click here. Library opening hours are generous, and it makes a great place to study.
Extra-curricular facilities
There’s a dance studio, a music rooms, a games room, and a rich cultural life to take part in. You can join one or more of St George’s many and varied societies. The arts are well represented by musical, drama and revue societies that produce regular shows. Other societies include Islamic, Hindu, Christian, Jewish, Adventure Sports, International, Modern Languages, Film and Photography. We also have many highly active and exciting societies for students who are interested in voluntary work within the local and wider community.
Our sports centre houses a gym, sports hall and squash courts, and is available to students at heavily subsidised rates. From teams that play for fun to those that compete at the highest levels, we have every angle covered, including rugby, netball, football, lacrosse, surfing and wakeboarding.
For more information about our resources and facilities please click here.
Accommodation
Whether you are a prospective, current, undergraduate, or postgraduate student, the accommodation staff are here to help you find suitable accommodation while you are studying at St George’s.
Central location
Tooting is a culturally vibrant place with an exciting, diverse and mixed background of people and cultures. This diversity is reflected in the shops, restaurants and wide range of local facilities you’ll find right on your doorstep.
Hop on the Tube at Tooting Broadway and it’s a mere 20 minutes to the centre of London, so whether it’s shopping in Covent Garden, seeing the latest exhibition at the National Gallery or Tate Modern, or catching a West End musical, the capital is your oyster. For more information on Tooting life click here.
Fees
Information of fees can be found by clicking on the relevant course.
Contact
Student Recruitment team
St George’s, University of London
Cranmer Terrace
London
SW17 0RE
T: +44 (0)20 8725 2333
F:+44 (0)20 8725 0841
Email: enquiries@sgul.ac.uk
Web: www.sgul.ac.uk
