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, England. It is a member institution of the federal

. Teaching in Mile End began as a philanthropic endeavor under the auspices of the East London College in the 1880s. Renamed Queen Mary College, after

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, the College was admitted to the University of London in 1915. In 1989 the College merged with

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, a teacher training college, to form Queen Mary and Westfield College. In 1995 Queen Mary and Westfield College merged with

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Medical College and The London Hospital Medical College to form the School of Medicine and Dentistry (informally known as Barts). Medical students had been informally educated at St Bartholomew's since its foundation as a priory and hospital in 1123, while The London Hospital Medical College had as England's first medical school, formally trained doctors since its inception in 1785. Taken together, these two historic institutions form the present university's earliest foundations. In 2000, Queen Mary and Westfield College rebranded as Queen Mary University of London, and in 2008 the Privy Council granted Queen Mary the authority to award university degrees in its own name; previously degrees had been awarded through the University of London. In 2012 Queen Mary joined the

of leading British research universities. The following year, the university legally changed its name from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London to Queen Mary University of London. Today, Queen Mary has five campuses across East and Central London in

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and

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, as well as an international presence in China, France, Greece and

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. The Mile End campus is the largest self-contained campus of any London-based university. In 2018/19 the university had around 26,000 students. Queen Mary is organised into three faculties – the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Science and Engineering, and

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. Queen Mary is a member of the Russell Group of British research universities, the

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and

. Queen Mary is a major centre for medical teaching and research and is part of UCLPartners, the world's largest

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. Queen Mary runs programmes at the University of London Institute in Paris, taking over the functions provided by

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. Queen Mary also collaborates with

to offer its Global MBA program. For 2020–21, Queen Mary had a turnover of £512.5 million, including £114.7 million from research grants and contracts. Queen Mary has produced many notable alumni in various fields of work and study around the world with several alumni having become notable leaders in their respective fields including

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, law,

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, business,

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, and

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. There are nine

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amongst Queen Mary's alumni, current and former staff. Notable alumni include

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, who discovered the origin and cure for

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, Davidson Nicol, who discovered the breakdown of insulin in the human body, British politician

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, and Professor Andrew Pollard, the chief investigator of the

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History

St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College and The London Hospital Medical College

The Medical College of The Royal London Hospital (now part of the School of Medicine and Dentistry) was England's first medical school when it opened in 1785. In 1850,

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became the first fully qualified female doctor in the UK, after training at St Bartholomew's Hospital.

People's Palace

The predecessor to Queen Mary College was founded in the mid-

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as a ''People's Palace'' when growing awareness of conditions in London's

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led to drives to provide facilities for local inhabitants, popularised in the 1882 novel ''All Sorts of Conditions of Men – An Impossible Story'' by

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, which told of how a rich and clever couple from

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went to the East End to build a ”Palace of Delight, with concert halls, reading rooms, picture galleries, art and designing schools." Although not directly responsible for the conception of the People's Palace, the novel did much to popularise it. The trustees of the Beaumont Trust, administering funds left by Barber Beaumont, purchased the site of the former

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from the

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. On 20 May 1885 the Drapers' Court of Assistants resolved to grant £20,000 "for the provision of the technical schools of the People's Palace." The foundation stone was laid on 28 June 1886 and on 14 May 1887

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opened the palace's Queen's Hall as well as laying the foundation stone for the technical schools in the palace's east wing. The technical schools were opened on 5 October 1888, with the entire palace completed by 1892. However others saw the technical schools as one day becoming a technical university for the East End. In 1892 the Drapers' Company provided £7,000 a year for ten years to guarantee the educational side income.

East London College

In 1895 John Leigh Smeathman Hatton, director of evening classes (1892–1896; later director of studies 1896–1908 and principal 1908–1933), proposed introducing a course of study leading to the Bachelor of Science degree of the

. By the start of the 20th century, the first degrees were awarded and Hatton, along with several other professors, were recognised as teachers of the University of London. In 1906 an application for Parliamentary funds "for the aid of Educational Institutions engaged in work of a University nature", led to the college being admitted on an initial three-year trial basis as a school of the University of London on 15 May 1907 as East London College. Teaching of aeronautical engineering began in 1907, which led to the first UK aeronautical engineering department being established in 1909, boasting a ground-breaking

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and creating what became (following the demise of the

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) the oldest aeronautical programme in the world. In 1910 the college's status in the University of London was extended for a further five years, with unlimited membership achieved in May 1915. During this period the organisation of the governors of the People's Palace was rearranged, creating the separate People's Palace Committee and East London College Committee, both under the Palace Governors, as a sign of the growing separation of the two concepts within a single complex. During the First World War, the college admitted students from The

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who were preparing for the preliminary medical examination, the first step in a long process that would eventually bring the two institutions together. After the war, the college grew, albeit constrained by the rest of the People's Palace to the west and a burial ground immediately to the east. In 1920 it obtained both the Palace's Rotunda (now the Octagon) and rooms under the winter gardens at the west of the palace, which became chemical laboratories. The college's status was also unique, being the only School of the University of London that was subject to both the Charity Commissioners and the Board of Education. In April 1929 the College Council decided it would take the steps towards applying to the Privy Council for a

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, but on the advice of the Drapers' Company first devised a scheme for development and expansion, which recommended amongst other things to re-amalgamate the People's Palace and the college, with guaranteed provision of the Queen's Hall for recreational purposes, offering at least freedom of governance if not in space.

Queen Mary College

In the early hours of 25 February 1931 a fire destroyed the Queen's Hall, though both the college and the winter gardens escaped. In the coming days discussions on reconstruction led to the proposal that the entire site be transferred to the college which would then apply for a charter alone. The Drapers' Company obtained St Helen's Terrace, a row of six houses neighbouring the site, and in July 1931 it was agreed to give these over to the People's Palace for a new site adjacent to the old, which would now become entirely the domain of the college. Separation was now achieved. The Charter was now pursued, but the Academic Board asked for a name change, feeling that "East London" carried unfortunate associations that would hinder the college and its graduates. With the initial proposed name, "Queen's College", having already been taken by

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and "Victoria College" felt to be unoriginal, "Queen Mary College" was settled on. The Charter of Incorporation was presented on 12 December 1934 by Queen Mary herself.

Under the charter

During the Second World War, the college was evacuated to

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, where it shared with

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. After the war the college returned to London, facing many of the same problems but with prospects for westward expansion. The East End had suffered considerable bomb damage (although the college itself had incurred little) and consequently several areas of land near to the college site now became vacant. New buildings for physics, engineering, biology and chemistry were built on the new sites, whilst the arts took over the space vacated in the original building, now renamed the Queens' Building. Limited accommodation resulted in the acquisition of further land in

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(now directly connected to Mile End tube station by means of the Central line's eastward extension), upon which tower blocks were established. The college also obtained the Co-operative Wholesale Society's clothing factory on the Mile End Road which was converted into a building for the Faculty of Laws (and some other teaching), as well as the former headquarters of Spratt's Patent Ltd (operators of the "largest dog biscuit factory in the world" – see Spratt's Complex) at 41–47 Bow Road, which was converted into a building for the Faculty of Economics founded by Maurice Peston, Baron Peston. Both faculties were physically separated from what was now a campus to the west. From the mid-1960s until the mid-1980s the college proposed to link with the

and St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College with a joint facility in Mile End. A further link with both The London and St. Bartholomew's was made in 1974 when an anonymous donor provided for the establishment of a further hall of residence in Woodford, to be divided equally between Queen Mary College students and the two medical colleges. At the start of the 1980s changing demographics and finances led to a reorganisation of the University of London. At Queen Mary some subjects, such as Russian and Classics were discontinued, whilst the college became one of five in the university with a concentration of laboratory sciences, including the transfer of science departments from

, Chelsea College,

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and Bedford College.

1989 to 2010

In 1989 Queen Mary College (informally known as QMC) merged with

to form Queen Mary & Westfield College (often abbreviated to QMW). Over subsequent years, activities were concentrated on the Queen Mary site, with the Westfield site eventually sold. In 1990, The London Hospital was renamed The Royal London Hospital, after marking its 250th year, and a re-organisation of medical education within the University of London resulted in most of the free-standing medical schools being merged with existing large colleges to form multi-faculty institutions. In 1995 The

and St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College merged into Queen Mary & Westfield College to form an entity named Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. In 2000 the college changed its name for general public use to Queen Mary, University of London; in 2013, the college legally changed its name to Queen Mary University of London. The VISTA telescope is a 4-metre class wide-field

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at the

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in Chile that was conceived and developed by a consortium of UK universities led by Queen Mary University, costing approximately £36m. The Westfield Student Village opened in 2004 on the Mile End Campus, bringing over 2,000 rooms to students and a huge array of facilities, restaurants, and cafes. The

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, home to the Medical School's Institute of Cell and Molecular Science opened at the

campus in 2005. The award-winning building was designed by Will Alsop, and is named after William Blizard, an English surgeon and founder of The

in 1785. The year 2006 saw the refurbishment of The Octagon, the original library of the People's Palace dating back to 1888. In 2007 parts of the School of Law – postgraduate facilities and the Centre for Commercial Law Studies – moved to premises in

in central London. The Women at Queen Mary Exhibition was staged in the Octagon, marking 125 years of Westfield College and 120 years of Queen Mary College. In September 2009, the world's first science education centre located within a working research laboratory opened at the Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, hoping to inspire children with school tours and interactive games and puzzles.

2010 to present

Queen Mary became one of the few university-level institutions to implement a requirement of the A* grade at A-Level after its introduction in 2010 on some of their most popular courses, such as Engineering, Law, and Medicine. Following on from the 2010 UK student protests, Queen Mary set fees of £9,000 per year for September 2012 entry, while also offering bursaries and scholarships. On 12 March 2012 it was announced that Queen Mary would be joining the

in August 2012. Later in March, Queen Mary and the

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announced the creation of a strategic partnership, including research collaboration, joint teaching of English, history and computer science undergraduates, and the creation of eight joint post-doctoral research fellowships. In January 2013, Queen Mary established the world's first professorial chair in animal replacement science. From 2014, Queen Mary began awarding its own degrees, rather than those of the University of London. Queen Mary became the first Russell Group university to offer Degree Apprenticeships and three years later was the first UK university to launch a social change degree, the BSc in Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship. In 2021, Queen Mary became the first UK university to receive the Platinum-level Engage Watermark from the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement.

Campuses

Queens' clocktower, Mile End, E1 3354304450

The main Mile End campus contains the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Science and Engineering, the Queens' Building, the main college library, the student union, Draper's bar and club, several restaurants, a number of halls of residences and a gym. The educational and research sites of the Arts Research Centre, Computer Science, the large Engineering building, G.E. Fogg Building, Francis Bancroft Building, G. O. Jones Building, Joseph Priestley Building, Lock-keeper's Graduate Centre, and the Mathematical Science Building, are all located within the Mile End campus. The

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Queens' Building is home to the Octagon. Built in 1887, the Octagon was originally the Queen Mary University of London library. It was designed by architect ER Robson and inspired by the

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. In 2006, "brightly coloured leather bound books" were restored and reinstated to the bookshelves, along with " busts of famous

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looking down from the beautiful high domed ceiling." While the People's Palace is home to the Grade II listed Great Hall. The

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style Great Hall has a seating capacity of over 700 and standing of 1,000. It is complemented by 3 lecture theatres and a foyer. The

campus encompasses

, the Whitechapel Medical Library, the award-winning Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, and The

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. The West Smithfield campus of the School of Medicine and Dentistry, the West Smithfield Medical Library, the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, the John Vane Science Centre, the Heart Centre and

are based in Smithfield. The Centre for Commercial Law Studies and LLM teaching and postgraduate law research activities are based in

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. The Malta campus, situated on the island of

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, is part of Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. Students taught at the Malta campus are offered the same curriculum as taught in London, for the MBBS Medicine and Medicine Foundation programmes.

Harold Pinter Drama Studio

The Harold Pinter Drama Studio is the main teaching and performance space of the students and staff of the Department of Drama. On 26 April 2005,

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, who was to win the

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later that year, gave a public reading and was interviewed by his official authorised biographer, Michael Billington, in the studio named for Pinter and located as part of the Faculty of Arts (Department of Drama, School of English and Drama) in the Mile End campus, to celebrate its refurbishment.

Organisation and administration

Queen Mary and Westfield College was established by Act of Parliament and the granting of a

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in 1989, following the merger of Queen Mary College (incorporated by charter in 1934) and Westfield College (incorporated in 1933). The Charter has subsequently been revised three times: in 1995 (as a result of the merger of the college with the Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry); in 2008 (as a result of the Privy Council awarding the College Degree Awarding Powers; and in July 2010 (following a governance review).

Schools, faculties and departments

There are three faculties and an interdisciplinary life sciences institute. These are split further into independent schools, institutes, and departments: ;Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences * School of Business and Management * School of Economics and Finance * School of English and Drama * School of Languages, Linguistics and Film * School of Geography * Global Shakespeare (in partnership with the University of Warwick) * School of History * School of Law **Centre for Commercial Law Studies ** Department of Law * School of Politics and International Relations ;

Barts Cancer Institute , mottoeng = Temper the bitter things in life with a smile , parent = Queen Mary University of London , president = Lord Mayor of London , head_label = Warden , head = Mark Caulfield , students = 3,410 , undergrad = 2,23 ...

* The Blizard Institute * Institute of Dentistry * Institute of Health Sciences Education * William Harvey Research Institute * Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine * The Centre of the Cell ;Faculty of Science and Engineering * Institute of Bioengineering * School of Biological and Chemical Sciences * School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science * School of Engineering and Materials Science * School of Mathematical Sciences * School of Physics and Astronomy * Materials Research Institute (MRI) ;Life Sciences Institute *Centre for Computational Biology *Centre for Genomic Health *Centre for Mind in Society *Institute of Bioengineering

Central administration

Queen Mary is an ' exempt charity' under the Charities Act 1993. The

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has been Queen Mary's principal regulator since June 2010.

Finances

In the financial year ended 31 July 2011, Queen Mary had a total income (including share of joint ventures) of £297.1 million (2009/10 – £289.82 million) and total expenditure of £295.35 million (2009/10 – £291.56 million). Key sources of income included £100.02 million from funding body grants (2009/10 – £103.97 million), £82.8 million from tuition fees and education contracts (2009/10 – £76.22 million), £73.66 million from research grants and contracts (2009/10 – £68.47 million) and £1.17 million from endowment and investment income (2008/09 – £1.48 million). During the 2010/11 financial year Queen Mary had a capital expenditure of £42.53 million (2009/10 – £45.61 million). At year end Queen Mary had endowments of £33.59 million (2009/10 – £29.95 million) and total net assets of £300.79 million (2009/10 – £291.38 million). Queen Mary offers several packages of bursaries and scholarships, many of which are aimed at supporting undergraduate students from low income households. In 2017/18, 5,215 students were awarded a Queen Mary Bursary worth £7,724,401, 53 students received Science and Engineering Excellence Scholarships worth £157,500 and 21 students received Economics and Finance Excellence Scholarships worth £63,000.

Academic profile

Around 32,000 students study at the 21 academic schools and institutes, with over 40 percent coming from overseas, representing over 170 different nationalities. Queen Mary awarded over £2 million in studentships to prospective postgraduate students for the 2011/12 academic year.

Research

QMUL was ranked joint ninth in the UK amongst multi-faculty institutions for the quality (GPA) of its research. In the 2014

Research Excellence Framework The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is a research impact evaluation of British higher education institutions. It is the successor to the Research Assessment Exercise and it was first used in 2014 to assess the period 2008–2013. REF is under ...

it was 20th for its Research Power, fifth in the UK for the quality of research outputs and the Linguistics department was ranked first in the UK. In the UK

Research Assessment Exercise The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) was an exercise undertaken approximately every five years on behalf of the four UK higher education funding councils ( HEFCE, SHEFC, HEFCW, DELNI) to evaluate the quality of research undertaken by British h ...

results published in December 2008, Queen Mary was placed 11th according to an analysis by ''The Guardian'' newspaper and 13th according to '' The Times Higher Education Supplement'', out of the 132 institutions submitted for the exercise. ''The Times Higher'' commented "the biggest star among the research-intensive institutions was Queen Mary, University of London, which went from 48th in 2001 to 13th in the 2008 Times Higher Education table, up 35 places." Since 2007 Queen Mary University of London's '' Centre for Digital Music'' develops the free and

open source software Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. Op ...

''Sonic Visualizer'' for

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, in particular for analyzing audio spectrograms. With over 100,000 downloads, it is the most famous software for its category. The QS World University Rankings 2019 ranked Queen Mary third in the world for research citations for the subject of medicine. The growth and strength of research at the college was rewarded with an invitation to join the

of research-intensive universities in the UK in 2012. The university is also a member of the

Screen Studies Group, London The University of London Screen Studies Group (SSG) is a research consortium in film studies, founded in 2001. Member institutions include Goldsmiths, Birkbeck, University College London, King's College London, Royal Holloway, SOAS, Queen ...

. Other research highlights include an international team of scientists, led by astronomers at Queen Mary, discovering a planet orbiting

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, the closest star to the

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. In 2018, a project involving Queen Mary researchers reached its goal of sequencing 100,000 whole genomes from

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patients.

Libraries

Queen Mary's main library is located on the Mile End campus where most subjects are represented. It also has two medical libraries in Whitechapel and West Smithfield. Usual opening hours are 8am to midnight. Since September 2017, the Mile End Library has been open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week during term time (including bank holidays). As members of a college of the

, students at Queen Mary have access to

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, shared by other colleges such as King's College London and

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, in addition to library access throughout most of the individual University of London colleges, subject to approval at the given University.

Partnerships

Queen Mary offers a joint degree programme with

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications The Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) () is a key national university distinguished by the teaching and research in the field of cable communications, wireless communications, computer, and electronic engineering. BUP ...

. This was the first of its kind to be approved by the PRC Ministry of Education, it is taught 50% by each institution in English. In Beijing staff from Queen Mary teach part of the programme and the students receive two degrees, one from each university. The programmes are in Telecommunications and Management and Ecommerce Engineering and Law. Almost 2,000 students are studying on these programmes in 2009 and the first cohort graduated in the Summer of 2008. The joint programmes have been praised by the UK Quality Assurance Agency; the PRC Ministry of Education; and the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology. Queen Mary collaborated with

to help run programmes at the University of London Institute in Paris (ULIP) which is a central academic body of the University of London located in Paris, France, enabling undergraduate and graduate students to study University of London ratified French Studies degrees in France. From September 2016, Queen Mary took over the functions provided by Royal Holloway and all students are now considered registered students of Queen Mary. Queen Mary provides academic guidance for the Global

Master of Business Administration A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accou ...

degree offered by the

's distance learning. Queen Mary is a founding partner in UCLPartners, an

located in London. Queen Mary joined UCLPartners in 2011.

Admissions

In terms of average

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points of entrants, Queen Mary ranked 32nd in Britain in 2014. The university gives offers of admission to 75.0% of its applicants, the 12th lowest amongst the

. According to the 2017 ''Times'' and ''Sunday Times'' Good University Guide, approximately 12% of Queen Mary's undergraduates come from independent schools. In the 2016–17 academic year, the university had a domicile breakdown of 68:10:22 of UK:EU:non-EU students respectively with a female to male ratio of 54:46.

Rankings and reputation

World In the 2022 ''

QS World University Rankings ''QS World University Rankings'' is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The QS system comprises three parts: the global overall ranking, the subject rankings (which name the world's top universities for th ...

'' Queen Mary ranked 117th worldwide. ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'' 2021 ranked Queen Mary 110th in the world. ''Academic Ranking of World Universities'' 2020 ranks Queen Mary between 201 and 300 in the world. The university was ranked 51st in the world in the ''CWTS Leiden Ranking'' 2018. 2021 ''U.S. News & World Report'' ranks Queen Mary as 114th in the world. Europe Queen Mary was ranked 11th in Europe in the ''CWTS Leiden Ranking'' 2016. The university was ranked 47th in the 2017 ''U.S. News & World Report'' Best Global Universities in Europe. 2017 ''Times Higher Education'' ranked Queen Mary equal 46th among European universities. Subject In 2019, ''QS World Universities'' ranked both the schools of Law and English Literature and Language 32nd in the world, with the schools of Geography, History, Linguistics and Medicine all making top 100. In 2020, Law at Queen Mary University of London was ranked 30th in the world and seventh in the UK. The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry has been ranked as the 15th best medical school in the UK by ''The Guardian'' and, globally, is ranked ninth by the QS World University Rankings. According to ''Times Good University Guide 2020'' strong subject areas for Queen Mary University are Dentistry (5), Medicine (8), Materials Technology (11) and Drama, Dance and Cinematics (17). ''The Guardian'' in 2018 ranked the School of Law as third best in the UK. Several other departments within the university are also internationally respected. Among them are the School of Economics and Finance, the School of Politics and International Relations and the School of Engineering and Material Sciences. National Queen Mary ranks eighth in the UK in the ''CWTS Leiden Ranking'' 2016. Queen Mary ranks 13th in the ''U.S. News & World Report'' Best Global Universities in the United Kingdom, and fifth in London. In ''Times Higher Education'' Best universities in the UK 2017, it has been ranked 15th. ''The Guardian'' ranks Queen Mary in the ''University league tables 2017'' first for Media & Film Studies, second for Medicine in the UK, third in the UK for Dentistry, ninth for History in the UK, fifth for Law in the UK. ''The Complete University Guide'' 2019 ranks Queen Mary 38th overall. The 2014 ''Research Excellence Framework'' ranked Queen Mary equal ninth with the

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and

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. Queen Mary students feature in the top 10 in the UK for graduate starting salaries, according to ''The Times and Sunday Times University League Table'' 2016.

Student life

Queen Mary Students' Union

Queen Mary Students' Union (QMSU) unites the various clubs and societies of Queen Mary. The union is based at the recently refurbished Students' Hub. The elected representatives within the union are made up of a president and five vice-presidents. The union mascot is a leopard called Mary. The union has a sub-division to represent students studying at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, called Barts and The London Students' Association. ;SU facilities and publications #Qmotion (Gym/Fitness Centre) #Drapers Bar #Ground #The Learning Cafe #Infusion Shop #''The Print'' (newspaper) #''CUB'' (magazine) #Quest (radio) #Queen Mary Theatre Company #QMTV (television) #Students' Union Hub The Students' Union Hub replaces the previous office called the Blomley Centre. It is named after a former president and VP Education, Laura Blomeley, who completed her term in office with terminal cancer. In remembrance of her commitment to QMSU, two key rooms in the new Students' Union Hub have been named after her.

Sports

The Merger Cup is a series of annual sporting fixtures played between Queen Mary and Barts and The London (BL) sports clubs. The event has taken place since the merger of the two institutions in 1995. The results of a number of matches normally played on the same day are combined to determine the overall winner. Sporting fixtures include badminton, basketball, football, hockey, netball, rugby, squash, swimming, tennis and rowing. In recent times Queen Mary have won the cup in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. 2009 saw the cup return to the medical school with a 9–7 victory over Queen Mary, but a close 10–9 win brought it back to Queen Mary in 2010. In 2011, Barts and The London were Merger Cup winners. In 2012 QM won with a 15–7 defeat of BL, QM were also victorious in 2013. In 2014 Barts dominated 29–24, winning most major sports in the process. In 2016, Barts won against Queen Mary 67–37. The university has an alumni football club, Queen Mary College Old Boys FC, which was founded in 1989 and maintains close links with university. The club has three teams and competes in the Amateur Football Combination The club's 1st XI won four league titles in five seasons, including two league and London Old Boys Cup doubles

Student housing

Many Queen Mary students are accommodated in the college's own

halls of residence A dormitory (originated from the Latin word ''dormitorium'', often abbreviated to dorm) is a building primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people such as boarding school, high school, college or university ...

or other accommodation; students are also eligible to apply for places in the

intercollegiate halls of residence, such as Connaught Hall. Most students in college or university accommodation are first-year

undergraduate Undergraduate education is education conducted after secondary education and before postgraduate education. It typically includes all postsecondary programs up to the level of a bachelor's degree. For example, in the United States, an entry-le ...

s or international students. The majority of second and third-year students and

postgraduate Postgraduate or graduate education refers to academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications pursued by post-secondary students who have earned an undergraduate ( bachelor's) degree. The organization and str ...

s find their own accommodation in the private sector.

Undergraduate

The college's Westfield Student Village, situated in the north-east corner of the Mile End Campus, has en-suite, self-catering housing for 1,195 students, staff and academic visitors in six contemporary buildings. A shop, laundrette, café bar, 200-seat restaurant and central reception (staffed 24 hours a day), and a communal area situated adjacent to the Regents canal, form part of the Village development. Rooms are arranged in flats and maisonettes housing between four and eleven students. Undergraduate student housing at Queen Mary includes: *Albert Stern House – Located next to Ifor Evans at the western end of the main Queen Mary campus. *Beaumont Court – Housing for 167 first year, associate and foundation students in maisonettes and flats. Located opposite Sir France House and adjacent to Creed Court. *Sir Christopher France House – Situated on the bank of the Regents canal, flats in this building have full en-suite facilities. *Creed Court – Housing for 124 postgraduate students in 10 maisonettes and 12 flats. Located opposite Sir France House and adjacent to Beaumont Court. *Ifor Evans – Located at the western end of the campus. *Lindop House – A residential development situated directly opposite the Queens' Building. Housing for 74 first year undergraduate, mostly medics, and foundation students in single rooms in 11 six-person flats and 2 four-person flats. *Maurice Court – containing 12 maisonettes and 18 flats for up to 173 first year students. Located at the rear of Creed and Beaumont Courts and very close to Mile End Hospital. *Maynard & Varey Houses – Two buildings housing 200 first year undergraduate, associate and foundation students. Situated in Westfield Way at the eastern end of the Mile End campus directly opposite the college's Chemistry and IT Resource Centre. *Pooley House – Located at the far end of the campus, providing housing for 378 first year, associate and foundation students in 48 flats. The largest building in the village development. * Richard Feilden House – Housing for 200 first year, associate and foundation students. The Curve, a 200-seat restaurant is situated on the ground floor. Opened in 2007, it is the newest dwelling in the Village and is situated opposite the Joseph Priestley Building.

Postgraduate

Postgraduate student housing at Queen Mary includes: *Chapman, Chesney and Selincourt – Four residences situated in Westfield Way, at the eastern end of the Mile End campus adjacent to the Regents Canal. 94 single en-suite rooms for final year undergraduate and new postgraduate students *Dawson Hall – Located near Barbican tube station in the City of London and set around lawns and trees on the college's Charterhouse campus, close to St Bartholomew's Hospital. Provides single rooms for 207 medical and dental students and medical based postgraduates. *Floyer House – Houses 145 medical and dental students and medical based postgraduates, located close to The London Hospital and Dental Institute at the college's Whitechapel campus. *Hatton House – Situated in Westfield Way at the eastern end of the Mile End campus. Rooms are furnished and have full en-suite facilities.

Notable people

Notable alumni

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, fifth

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and Principal of the

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, former

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, engineer

Notable academics

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Mario Vargas Llosa Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (born 28 March 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa (, ), is a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and former politician, who also holds Spanish citizenship. Vargas Ll ...

, Peruvian writer, politician, and recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature Notable current and former staff of Queen Mary and of the institutions historically merged to from the current university include: * John Abernethy – British surgeon, lecturer of St. Bartholomew's Hospital; founder of the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital * Edgar Andrews – British physicist and engineer (founded the Department of Materials at Queen Mary in 1967) *

Keith Ansell-Pearson Keith Ansell-Pearson is a British philosopher specialising in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at Warwick University. Ansell-Pearson is the author of numerous books inc ...

– British philosopher * W. Ross Ashby – British psychiatrist and pioneer in cybernetics, the study of complex systems *

Rosemary A. Bailey Rosemary A. Bailey (born 1947) is a British statistician who works in the design of experiments and the analysis of variance and in related areas of combinatorial design, especially in association schemes. She has written books on the des ...

– British mathematician * Tim Bale – British political scientist * Ted Bastin – British physicist and mathematician *Sir

Christopher Bayly Sir Christopher Alan Bayly, FBA, FRSL (18 May 1945 – 18 April 2015) was a British historian specialising in British Imperial, Indian and global history. From 1992 to 2013, he was Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at ...

– British historian *Sir Harshad Bhadeshia – Indian-British metallurgist *

William Bonfield William Bonfield CBE, FREng, FRS (born 6 March 1937) is a British material scientist, and Emeritus Professor of Medical Materials in the University of Cambridge. Life He earned a BSc with First Class Honours, and PhD at Imperial College, London ...

– British material scientist, and Emeritus Professor of Medical Materials in the University of Cambridge * Patrick Boyle British Financier, lecturer QMUL School of Economics and Finance; founder of Palomar Capital Management; Author * Donald Bradley – British chemist * Peter Cameron – Australian mathematician * Bernard Carr – British mathematician and astronomer * John Dennis Carthy – British zoologist * Lorna Casselton – British biologist *

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– German biologist, founded the Department of Psychology at Queen Mary in 2007 * Peter Clarricoats – British microwave engineer * Roger Cotterrell – British legal scholar * Philip Cowley – British political scientist *Sir

Ross Cranston Sir Ross Frederick Cranston (born 23 July 1948) is a professor of Law at London School of Economics and a retired High Court judge. He is also a former British Labour Party politician, and served as the Member of Parliament for Dudley North betw ...

– British lawyer, High Court judge, formerly academic lawyer and Labour Party politician * David Currie, Baron Currie of Marylebone – British economist specialising in regulation, and a cross-bench member of the House of Lords * Michael Dewar – British chemist * Alan Deyermond – British historian * Patrick Diamond – British policy advisor * Toby Dodge – British political scientist * Sebastian Doniach – British-American physicist and professor at Stanford University * Graham Dorrington – British aeronautical engineer, subject of '' The White Diamond'' *

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– British

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and

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* Michael Duff – British physicist * Peter Duffy – British barrister *Sir William Ellison-Macartney – Irish/British Governor of the People's Palace and Governor of Tasmania *Sir

Edward Frankland Sir Edward Frankland, (18 January 18259 August 1899) was an English chemist. He was one of the originators of organometallic chemistry and introduced the concept of combining power or valence. An expert in water quality and analysis, he was ...

– British chemist * Felipe Fernández-Armesto – British historian *

Daniel Friedmann Daniel Friedmann ( he, דניאל פרידמן, born 17 April 1936) is a former professor at and dean of the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. He served as the Minister of Justice of Israel from 2007 to 2009, having been appointed by then-Prime ...

– Israeli lawyer, Minister of Justice of Israel, 2007–2009 * Robin Ganellin – British chemist *Sir Archibald Garrod – British physician who pioneered the field of inborn errors of metabolism * Samuel Gee – British physician and paediatrician; published the first complete modern description of the clinical picture of coeliac disease *Dame Hazel Genn – British legal scholar, Dean of the Faculty of Laws and Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at University College London *

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– British medical doctor * Karl W. Gruenberg – British mathematician * Sanjeev Goyal – Indian economist * Michael Green – British physicist *

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– British physician at Barts; discovery of circulation of blood * Eric Heinze – British legal scholar *

Peter Hennessy Peter John Hennessy, Baron Hennessy of Nympsfield, (born 28 March 1947) is an English historian and academic specialising in the history of government. Since 1992, he has been Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary Unive ...

, Baron Hennessy of Nympsfield – British historian, and a cross-bench member of the House of Lords *

Marian Hobson Marian Elizabeth Hobson Jeanneret, (née Hobson; born 10 November 1941) is a British scholar of French philosophy, and culture. From 1992 to 2005, she was Professor of French at Queen Mary, University of London. She had previously taught at the ...

– British academic, Professor of French * George Hockham – British engineer, co-pioneer of

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for long-distance communications systems *

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– British politician and historian * Julian Jackson – British historian *

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– British academic, Professor of Gynaecological Cancer *

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– British academic, Professor of Renaissance Studies *

Jeremy Jennings Jeremy Jennings is an English political theorist and Professor of Political Theory at King's College London. He is predominantly interested in the history of political thought, often with specific reference to France. He has authored a number of bo ...

– British academic, Professor of Political Theory * Mark Jerrum – British computer scientist and computational theorist * Colin Jones – British academic, Professor of History * Gwyn Jones – British physicist and curator, Professor of Physics * Ajay Kakkar, Baron Kakkar – British surgeon, Professor of Surgery at University College London, and a cross-bench member of the House of Lords * Peter Kalmus – British academic, Emeritus Professor of Physics * Annette Kuhn – British academic, Emeritus Professor of Film Studies * Peter Landin – British academic, Professor of Theoretical Computer Science * Vito Latora – British mathematician *

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– British academic, Professor of English *

– Peruvian writer, politician, and recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature *

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– British historian *Sir Alistair MacFarlane – British electrical engineer * Shahn Majid – British mathematician * Ursula Martin – British computer scientist, the first female professor at the

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since its foundation in 1411 * Frederick Maurice – British general and historian * Michael Mingos – British chemist *

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– British politician, cross-bench member of the House of Lords; Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, Queen Mary University of London (1995–2006) *

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– British chemist who contributed to the development of the periodic table *Sir

– British biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist *

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– British academic, Professor of Marketing and Communication * James Parkinson – British medical doctor, activist, discovered

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– British journalist *

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– British academic, Professor of Physics *

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– British academic, Professor of English *Sir Joseph Rotblat – Polish physicist, Professor of Physics, St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College (1950–76); awarded the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize for efforts toward nuclear disarmament * Miri Rubin – British academic, Professor of Early Modern History * Michael Russel geologist * Charles Saumarez Smith – British art historian * Denise Sheer – British academic, Professor of Human Genetics *

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– British mathematician * Trevor Arthur Smith, Baron Smith of Clifton – British politician and academic, and a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords *

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– British medical researcher *Sir Robert Watson – British academic, Professor of Environmental Science *

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– British academic, Professor of Economics *

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– British academic, Professor of Contemporary Performance * Glenn White – British Astronomer, Professor of Physics and Astronomy * Robert Winston, Baron Winston – British academic, pioneer of

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, and a Labour Party member of the House of Lords *Sir Nicholas Wright – British academic, Professor of Histopathology, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London *

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– British academic, Professor of Aeronautical Engineering *

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Nobel laureates

To date, there have been nine

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who were either students or academics at Queen Mary.

Principals

To date, Queen Mary has had a total of 22 principals (11 of Westfield College, eight of Queen Mary College, and three since the merger of Queen Mary, Westfield, Barts, and The London). The current principal is Colin Bailey, a structural engineer, who became Principal in September 2017.

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References

Bibliography

External links

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Queen Mary Students' Union website

Queen Mary University of London student lists

Queen Mary University of London military personnel,1914–1918
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