TEACHING
QUALITY
Queen Mary, University of London
37
th
NATIONAL
RANK
RANK
70.3%
FIRSTS
2:1s
2:1s
90.8%
COMPLETION
RATE
RATE
Key Stats
n/a
89th=
STUDENT
EXPERIENCE
EXPERIENCE
25th=
RESEARCH
QUALITY
QUALITY
47th=
GRADUATE
PROSPECTS
PROSPECTS
Contact details
University Profile
Queen Mary (QMUL) enjoyed record applications and enrolments in 2013, as it reaped the benefits of joining the Russell Group of leading research universities. With a big medical school contributing to a high volume of research, it fitted the profile of the group better than some of the other new entrants.
It has since launched a life sciences initiative, bringing together the faculties of science and engineering, humanities and social sciences, and Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry to work together to realise the social and economic promise of personalised healthcare and to address major public health issues both locally and worldwide.
The school’s Institute of Dentistry moved into the first new dental school to be built in the UK for 40 years, when it occupied new facilities costing £78m in the Royal London Hospital this year. The medical school, which has introduced a new BSc in global health, is rated in the top 100 in the world, but the university is still best known for its strength in the humanities, where it boasts a clutch of high-profile academics.
Queen Mary has the highest proportion of undergraduates
More than 85% of students are educated in state schools, again an unusually high proportion and testimony to Queen Mary’s commitment to widening access to higher education.
It is aiming to be among the top 10 universities in the UK by 2015, although it has set its own criteria, which give more weight to research than is the case in our league table, where it remains outside the top 30.
There has been particular success in attracting overseas students, who make full use of a unit specialising in English as a foreign language and now account for more than a third of the 18,000 students.
There is a flourishing exchange programme, which includes universities in the USA and Japan, as well as Europe, while more than 2,000 students are in Beijing taking joint degrees from QMUL and the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
QMUL outperforms most London institutions in the National Student Survey. Most lectures are filmed and made available through the Virtual Learning Environment to allow students to go back over parts that they may not have understood.
The majority of undergraduates take at least one course in departments other than their own. Interdisciplinary study has always been encouraged: for example, medics can choose selected modules in English and drama.
The arts-based Westfield College and scientific Queen Mary came together in 1989. Now the self-contained campus in the newly fashionable East End of London is the most extensive in the capital. Some £250m has been spent over the past 15 years on new facilities and strengthening the academic staff.
The main campus includes a state-of-the-art learning resource centre with 24-hour access and a canal-side award-winning student village with 2,000 en-suite rooms. An arts quarter contains research and teaching facilities, as well as a conference centre. The £20m Arts2 building, featuring a drama studio and lecture theatre opened in 2012.
The historic People’s Palace building, which brought education to the Victorian masses, is still Queen Mary’s most recognisable feature and formal "front door", and has been restored to host cultural events for the institution and the local community.
The Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry is based one mile away in Whitechapel, in the £44m Blizard Building. Next door is the new BioEnterprise Innovation Centre for science companies. The Centre of the Cell is also located on the Whitechapel campus, the first such interactive facility to be based within a working medical school research laboratory to give young people a glimpse of how scientists operate.
Grades improved spectacularly in the last Research Assessment Exercise, when almost two-thirds of the work submitted was rated world-leading or internationally excellent, propelling Queen Mary into the top 25 UK universities for research.
Social life centres on the campus, which features a refurbished students’ union with a new bar and a subsidised health and fitness centre, which has helped improve the sports facilities. Students welcome the relatively low prices in east London, and their proximity to the lively youth culture of Spitalfields, Shoreditch and Brick Lane.
Queen Mary students can use the sports facilities at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park two miles away, including the Copper Box indoor arena and the Aquatic Centre’s swimming pool. Athletes, including Mo Farah, used Queen Mary’s campus facilities during the Olympics two summers ago.
It has since launched a life sciences initiative, bringing together the faculties of science and engineering, humanities and social sciences, and Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry to work together to realise the social and economic promise of personalised healthcare and to address major public health issues both locally and worldwide.
The school’s Institute of Dentistry moved into the first new dental school to be built in the UK for 40 years, when it occupied new facilities costing £78m in the Royal London Hospital this year. The medical school, which has introduced a new BSc in global health, is rated in the top 100 in the world, but the university is still best known for its strength in the humanities, where it boasts a clutch of high-profile academics.
Queen Mary has the highest proportion of undergraduates
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from working-class homes in the Russell Group – more than a third and well above the national average for a university with Queen Mary’s course and student profile. Many come from London’s ethnic minority groups, although the university also attracts students from 150 countries outside the UK.More than 85% of students are educated in state schools, again an unusually high proportion and testimony to Queen Mary’s commitment to widening access to higher education.
It is aiming to be among the top 10 universities in the UK by 2015, although it has set its own criteria, which give more weight to research than is the case in our league table, where it remains outside the top 30.
There has been particular success in attracting overseas students, who make full use of a unit specialising in English as a foreign language and now account for more than a third of the 18,000 students.
There is a flourishing exchange programme, which includes universities in the USA and Japan, as well as Europe, while more than 2,000 students are in Beijing taking joint degrees from QMUL and the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
QMUL outperforms most London institutions in the National Student Survey. Most lectures are filmed and made available through the Virtual Learning Environment to allow students to go back over parts that they may not have understood.
The majority of undergraduates take at least one course in departments other than their own. Interdisciplinary study has always been encouraged: for example, medics can choose selected modules in English and drama.
The arts-based Westfield College and scientific Queen Mary came together in 1989. Now the self-contained campus in the newly fashionable East End of London is the most extensive in the capital. Some £250m has been spent over the past 15 years on new facilities and strengthening the academic staff.
The main campus includes a state-of-the-art learning resource centre with 24-hour access and a canal-side award-winning student village with 2,000 en-suite rooms. An arts quarter contains research and teaching facilities, as well as a conference centre. The £20m Arts2 building, featuring a drama studio and lecture theatre opened in 2012.
The historic People’s Palace building, which brought education to the Victorian masses, is still Queen Mary’s most recognisable feature and formal "front door", and has been restored to host cultural events for the institution and the local community.
The Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry is based one mile away in Whitechapel, in the £44m Blizard Building. Next door is the new BioEnterprise Innovation Centre for science companies. The Centre of the Cell is also located on the Whitechapel campus, the first such interactive facility to be based within a working medical school research laboratory to give young people a glimpse of how scientists operate.
Grades improved spectacularly in the last Research Assessment Exercise, when almost two-thirds of the work submitted was rated world-leading or internationally excellent, propelling Queen Mary into the top 25 UK universities for research.
Social life centres on the campus, which features a refurbished students’ union with a new bar and a subsidised health and fitness centre, which has helped improve the sports facilities. Students welcome the relatively low prices in east London, and their proximity to the lively youth culture of Spitalfields, Shoreditch and Brick Lane.
Queen Mary students can use the sports facilities at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park two miles away, including the Copper Box indoor arena and the Aquatic Centre’s swimming pool. Athletes, including Mo Farah, used Queen Mary’s campus facilities during the Olympics two summers ago.
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Detailed Statistics
PERFORMANCE
PERFORMANCE
CATEGORY
SCORE
RANK
Ranking
-
37 (37)
Student experience
80
89th=
Research quality
23
25th=
Ucas entry points
424
27th=
Graduate prospects
70.3
47th=
Firsts and 2:1s
70.3
49th
Completion rate
90.8
35th
Student-staff ratio
12:1
11th
Services/facilities spend (£)
2,233
15th
World ranking
-
98 (115)
VITAL STATISTICS
Undergraduates
(Full-time)
10,950
Undergraduates
(Part-time)
35
Postgraduates
(Full-time)
3,120
Postgraduates
(Part-time)
935
Applications/places
27,735/3,880
Applications/places ratio
7.1:1
STUDENT CITIES
Mashalle Asim, students’ union officer
The amount of space we have to study and hang out is astonishing.
It is hard to balance writing assignments with keeping up to date with notes from lectures and seminars.
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Cost of living
Nightlife
Transport
Culture
ACCOMMODATION
Places in accommodation
2,337
Accommodation costs
£120-£180
Catered costs
£175
Accommodation contact
FEES
UK/EU fees
£9,000
Fees (placement year)
£1,800
Fees (overseas year)
£1,350
Fees (international)
£13,250-£15,950
Fees (international, medical)
£19,900-£30,400
Finance website
Graduate salaries
£23,328
BURSARIES/SCHOLARSHIPS
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Household income below £25K; a bursary of £1,571 a year; £25K–£42.6K, £1,256 a year.
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Other academic and targeted scholarships available.
SPORT
Sports points/rank
570.5, 56th
Sport website
Student satisfaction
91.0%
88.6%
88.6%
87.9%
86.0%
85.5%
85.2%
84.7%
84.6%
82.4%
81.9%
81.4%
80.3%
80.0%
77.8%
76.0%
75.5%
72.5%
71.4%
67.2%
52.8%