Queen Mary University of London

About us

Location London, United Kingdom Funding Type Public
No of Students 27077 Establishment University
Founded In 1785 Estimated Cost of Living 12006 GBP
Address Mile End Road London E1 4NS

The Queen Mary University of London is one of the UK's leading research-focused higher education institutions. We have over 25,000 students, close to 4,500 members of staff and an annual turnover of £462m.

We teach and research across a wide range of subjects in the humanities, social sciences, law, medicine and dentistry, and science and engineering. We are based in a creative and culturally diverse area of east London and our site in Mile End is one of the largest self-contained residential campuses in the capital.

Our research excellence

Queen Mary has made a strategic commitment to the highest quality of research. We have invested in this principle by systematically recruiting the best academics in their disciplines from around the world. The results of the most recent national assessment of research – the Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) – have confirmed our place in the very top group of research-led universities in the UK. Overall we were ranked 9th in the UK among multi-faculty universities and 5th in the UK for the percentage of our 3* and 4* research outputs.

Russell Group institution

Queen Mary is one of 24 leading UK universities represented by the Russell Group, that are committed to maintaining the very best research, an outstanding teaching and learning experience, excellent graduate employability and unrivalled links with business and the public sector.

High-quality learning experience

Queen Mary offers outstanding students a stimulating, supportive and high-quality learning experience, with teaching inspired by our world-leading research. Queen Mary ranks top in London among Russell Group universities for student satisfaction (National Student Survey 2016), with a number of our subject areas receiving over 90 per cent for ‘overall satisfaction’ including Medicine, Dentistry, Law and English.

We have invested £105m in new facilities over the past five years to offer our students an exceptional learning environment. Recent developments include the £39m Graduate Centre, set to provide 7,700 square metres of learning and teaching space, and the Dentistry Building, the UK’s first new dental school in forty years. Future developments include the planned Life Sciences Building, which will play a key role in the regeneration of the wider Whitechapel area following the arrival of Crossrail.

Why?

A history of social justice Queen Mary has its roots in four historic institutions that were founded to help the less privileged. At a time when women and working-class communities faced extreme barriers to education, the People’s Palace invited people from all backgrounds to study together, and Westfield College was the first residential college in London for women. The London Hospital Medical College and St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College were founded in 1785 and 1843 respectively, to improve the health of impoverished communities in the City and east London. These founders aspired to create places where everyone would have access to the same opportunities in education, recreation, and culture, regardless of background

Innovative research and teaching

Working closely with industry, government, business, communities, and charities, the outcomes of our research are felt around the world, from the communities of East London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

  • Queen Mary was ranked fifth in the UK for the quality of research outputs (4* and 3*) in the Research Excellence Framework (latest REF, 2014).
  • Eight of our alumni and staff have won a Nobel Prize.
  • Queen Mary is in the top ten UK universities for quality of research (Complete University Guide).

With staff and students representing over 160 nationalities, Queen Mary is one of the most diverse higher education institutions in the world. Almost two-thirds of our postgraduates come from outside the UK. 

A global education

Queen Mary is in the top 25 most internationally diverse universities in the world, based on the proportion of international staff and students, citations, and internationally co-authored papers, (Times Higher Education, 2019). We deliver postgraduate programs at our London and international sites and through partnerships with institutions across Europe, Asia, and the US.