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Overview
Queen Mary was created by the amalgamation of St Bart’s Hospital Medical College, the London Hospital Medical College, Westfield College and Queen Mary College. The new institution became part of the University of London in 1915. A public, research university, ranked 125th globally by QS (2023), Queen Mary has over 25,000 students, 40 per cent of whom are international. Its history and origins have significantly shaped its success. Bart’s Hospital had treated patients since the 12th century, and the London Hospital began training doctors in 1785, and as a result medicine is a major focus of research. Queen Mary University is ranked third, globally, for its medical research citations, and its Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry is in the global Top 10.
Queen Mary – academic organisation
Queen Mary has a campus in Malta, on Gozo, where students follow the same curriculum as their peers in London, and gain a MBBS in Medicine.
Queen Mary also runs a series of French Studies degrees in Paris, at the University of London Institute, Paris. If you wish to apply for an undergraduate programme at ULIC, this can be done through UCAS. Applicants who are short-listed will subsequently be invited to take part in a phone or online interview. Postgraduate applicants, in contrast, must apply directly to the Institute.
Queen Mary has a growing campus in China. It is possible to do a joint degree with Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in one of two subjects: Ecommerce engineering and law, and Telecommunications and Management.
Queen Mary’s Academic Excellence: A Hub of Cutting-Edge Institutes and Research
Queen Mary has 21 academic schools and institutes, including the highly-respected Life Sciences Institute, which is an interdisciplinary centre for medical studies. This initiative brings together Queen Mary academics, the NHS, the local community and industry. Thanks to this cooperation, Queen Mary was able to undertake a mammoth project to carry out DNA sequencing of 100,000 NHS patients, as part of its genomic research.
The Queen Mary Bioenterprises Innovation Centre is another centre of excellence and focusses on drug discovery start-ups, while its William Harvey Research Institute is one of Europe’s largest pharmacological centres.
Queen Mary: highest ranked courses:
- Dentistry
- Healthcare
- Drama, dance and cinematics
- Medicine
- Materials technology
- Geography
- Engineering
- Law
- Linguistics
- English Language and literature
Research at Queen Mary
Queen Mary is an outstanding research university, ranked joint 7th in the UK for the quality of its output, and offers 279 Master’s degrees, along with doctoral programmes
As well as producing nine Nobel Prize winners, Queen Mary’s astronomers discovered a new planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, and its researchers have expanded our knowledge of metabolomics and proteomics. Queen Mary’s academics determined the origins and cure for malaria and the process by which insulin breaks down in the body. The free open source Sonic Visualiser software, created at Queen Mary’s Centre for Digital Music, is being used across the world for audio analysis.
Today, Queen Mary’s researchers are investigating a wide range of topics, including:
- Food security in Zimbabwe
- New testing for early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer
- Trauma
- Gene therapy for haemophilia
- Population Health
- Environmental degradation
- Bioengineering of prosthetics and implants
- Sustainable energy etc.
Queen Mary’s research profile is not, of course, limited to medicine but covers a broad range of fields. The following list gives an idea of the number of publications produced by various departments:
- Biology (number of publications 12,593)
- Physics (11,887)
- Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (9,831)
- Engineering (8,704)
- Computer Science (6,899)
- Chemistry (6,420)
- Materials Science (4,314)
- Business (2,552)
- Economics (2,406)
- AI (2,203)
- Political Science (2,056)
- Art and Design (1,920)
- Astrophysics and Astronomy (1654)
- Sociology (1,568)
- Law (1,256)
The Queen Mary campus
One of the attractions of studying at Queen Mary is its location, in London’s East End. This trendy area is home to pop-up restaurants and bars, clubs and the glorious foods of Brick Lane. In addition it is only a stone’s throw away from the City, the Olympic Park and Canary Wharf.
Queen Mary University has six campuses.
The Mile End Campus
Mile End is the main campus and is situated on the Regent’s canal, a few minutes’ walk from the underground station of the same name. The faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as Science and Engineering, are located here. There are 2500 student rooms available on site, as well as shops, a nightclub, cafes, restaurants, bars, gym facilities, a bank and a bookshop. The student health services are found at Mile End campus, as is the Harold Pinter Drama Studio and the Queen’s Building with its eye-catching Octagon library. The People’s Palace at Mile End can accommodate 1700 students at a time, and includes three lecture theatres. This campus is the main hub of Queen Mary and students from every site are free to use its many facilities.
Queen Mary: secondary campuses
The Whitechapel campus is located a mere three miles from the centre of London, a leading global city with its own dynamic vibe and multicultural riches. Ten minutes’ walk away from Mile End, the Whitechapel campus houses dentistry and medicine students, and is home to the Faculty of Dentistry and Medicine. Although students can use all the facilities at Mile End, the Whitechapel campus also contains its own café and bar, as well as many lab facilities. The world-famous Blizard Institute, which focusses on immunobiology, child health and genomics, is found on this campus, as is the Royal London Hospital.
Postgraduate law students have a campus in the heart of legal London, at Lincoln’s Inn Fields, in Holborn. This is one stop on the underground from Tottenham Court Road and the beginning of Oxford Street – shoppers’ paradise. Lincoln’s Inn Fields contains the UK’s leading law chambers and has been the heartland of legal practise for centuries. You will see barristers hurrying to court in their wigs and gowns and solicitors’ clerks dashing across the street, their arms full of bundles of legal documents.
Accommodation at Charterhouse Square is reserved for students of dentistry and medicine. This central London campus houses the Bart’s Cancer Institute ,William Harvey Research Institute and the Wolfson Institute of Population Health.
Queen Mary’s West Smithfield campus is home to St Bartholomew’s Hospital, the Heart Centre and the West Smithfield Library. It provides students of medicine and dentistry with on-site accommodation. The campus houses a number of public health research centres into cancer, cardiovascular disease and epidemiology.
Queen Mary opened the satellite Ilford campus for teaching medicine in May 2023. Students will practise on mocked-up hospital wards and gain practical experience of applying medical principles.
Queen Mary- accommodation options
Queen Mary guarantees that all new undergraduate, postgraduate and foundation students will be offered accommodation, either in its halls of residence or through one of its partner providers.
The Queen Mary Mile End campus has 2,500 rooms, which are either ensuite or shared, and have a communal kitchen for 3-11 students. The kitchens are well-equipped and have fridge-freezers, microwaves, cookers, kettle etc. and an eating area.
NB: Bedrooms at Mile End have either a small double or a single bed, desk and chair, storage space, bookshelves and a wardrobe. Nonetheless, you will have to supply your own bedlinen, crockery and cooking utensils. Wi-Fi is, however, included in the rent, there are laundry facilities nearby or on the premises, and heating and utility bills are normally included.
Queen Mary offers single sex options, security patrols and communal area cleaning. Many halls also have communal gardens.
Queen Mary caters for students with disabilities – with certain halls introducing strobe fire alarms and aids for the hearing impaired. The facilities depend on the hall. If you are a wheelchair user, you need to check the availability of lifts and ground floor rooms.
Queen Mary’s Housing Services team will help and guide you to find the right accommodation for your needs. Once you have settled in, the Residential Services team is there to provide support, a Welcome Programme and activities. In addition, the team deals with maintenance issues , welfare and health. It can also refer you to the right academic or physical and mental health services.
Queen Mary’s campuses at Charterhouse Square and Whitechapel are specifically designed to allow students of dentistry and medicine to live close to the university clinical facilities. As a result, students are able to share with others working towards the same degrees.
All applications for accommodation have to be made through the Queen Mary housing portal, which opens in March each year. You will have to go online, using the password and username you were given when you first applied to Queen Mary. You must firmly accept your offer of a place before filling in your forms for accommodation. Applications have to be submitted by the deadline – 30 June.
Queen Mary’s housing services will send you confirmation of your place in halls between July and September. You should respond promptly, and accept your room allocation before it lapses.
Queen Mary accommodation: costs
Queen Mary’s halls of residence charge different rates. As a result, it is difficult to provide more than a rough guide, since prices depend on the type of room you choose. The range of accommodation spans the basic room with shared facilities, to the deluxe ensuite, and room sizes also vary.
As a rough rule of thumb, a twin room with a shared kitchen and bathroom costs approximately £124.95 per person per week, while a single studio costs £194-£250 per week. Charges include water, energy, Wi-Fi, cleaning and insurance for personal possessions. Extra-large single rooms cost around £20 more per week than standard singles, in a shared flat with 3-6 students.
Make sure that you check the length of the rental contract when you are choosing where to live, since these vary from 37-51 weeks.
Queen Mary – activities and clubs on campus
Queen Mary offers a vast number of activities and resources, including 60 sports clubs, a modern fitness centre, over 300 societies and a lively, pro-active students’ union.
Queen Mary’s QTemps focusses on advertising temporary jobs while QProjects specialises in leadership posts. QConsult enables students to gain work experience by taking part in consultancy projects with businesses and charities in the UK and abroad. In addition, Queen Mary runs volunteering schemes and summer abroad schemes. The university also runs a Global Opportunities Office which deals with European student exchanges.
NB: All catering on Queen Mary’s campuses will be strictly plant-based by 2028, as part of the university’s emphasis on health, wellbeing and sustainable diets.
Queen Mary, University of London – in summary
Queen Mary, University of London , is a leading member of the Russell Group of prestigious UK universities and produces world-class research studies which tackle the issues facing our planet. Located in the heart of London, with excellent transport links, vibrant campuses and a lively student community, it attracts students from all over the world, not least beacuse it offers outstanding teaching and resources.
Applications to Queen Mary, University of London, are processed through UCAS. If you would like help with maximising your chances of getting a place at this brilliant university, contact Elab. Our UK specialist consultants will be happy to guide you and provide you with comprehensive information.
