Mile End Road
London E1 4NS

Tel 020 7882 5511

admissions@qmul.ac.uk

www.qmul.ac.uk

Sunday Times ranking 34= (32)

Teaching excellence 38.5%

Student satisfaction 74.5%

Head teacher ranking 31 (25)

Peer ranking 26 (29)

Research quality 67.4%

A/AS-level points 340

A-levels for entry 77%

Unemployment 5.8%

Firsts and 2:1s 64%

Student/staff ratio 13:1

Dropout rate 11% (12%)

World ranking 99=

Undergraduates 8,325 (243)

Postgraduates 1,825 (1,231)

Teaching staff 706

Applications/places 22,565/3,346; 6.7:1 (+5.5%)

Clearing entry 8%

Bursaries 50%: £819-£1,024

Scholarships Various: £500-£10,000

EU/overseas 5%/9.4%

Mature 16.9%

State school 84%

Lowest social classes 32%

Low-participation areas 11%

Live in 25% £84-£175

With a self-contained campus 15 minutes from central London, Queen Mary offers something different to the other colleges within the University of London federation. With 2,000 study bedrooms on site off Mile End Road, the college claims to have the largest fully-integrated campus in the capital.

The final phase of the Westfield student village has just been completed, adding 200 rooms, plus a restaurant and coffee shop. The new student residences look out over the Regent’s Park canal to Mile End Park beyond and are part of a £160m building programme that has enhanced Queen Mary’s offer to students in the past five years.

A chemistry building with a teaching laboratory for 120 students and an arts quarter, which acts as a focal point for humanities and social science students, are among the recent additions to the main Mile End campus. Just along Mile End Road, in Whitechapel, the college has a second campus at the Royal London hospital, where a Will Alsop-designed medical school opened in 2005. Work is continuing on a biosciences innovation centre at Whitechapel, due to open in 2008.

Queen Mary is multifaculty, unlike many other University of London institutions, partly as a result of being a fusion of four colleges, each with their own fortes – Queen Mary College, Westfield College and two medical colleges, St Bartholomew’s and the London.

Consequently, teaching and research excellence spans the arts and sciences, while Queen Mary is one of three universities nationally to pilot a scheme to increase the numbers of children taking maths at A-level. It will work with schools in east London to raise the profile of the subject.

The bursary support is aimed at students whose family income totals less than £33,769, with awards of between £819 and £1,024. Anyone achieving AAA at A-level will see their bursary topped up to £4,000 a year.

A central London location is never good news for sporty types, although a gym and fitness centre will open on the Mile End campus this month.

Open days September 29.

Student view Claire Rutter, students’ union president:

USP New halls of residence and a health fitness centre help accentuate the campus experience.

Worst feature The negative stereotype of east London.

Location Less than 15 minutes away from central London.

Social scene We have a new student bar due to open in October.

Rated excellent (7) Dentistry; English; geography; modern languages; molecular biosciences; organismal biosciences; politics.

Degree of student satisfaction 74.5%

History and Archeology 85.3; English-based studies 82.2; Law 81.0; Performing Arts 80.3; European Languages and Area studies 79.2; Physical Science 79.2; Physical Geography and Environmental Science 78.5; Biology and related Sciences 78.4; Human and Social Geography 76.1; Electronic and Electric Engineering 76.0; Mathematical Sciences 75.6; Finance and Accounting 71.5; Other subjects allied to Medicine 70.9; Management 70.5; Medicine and Dentistry 69.9; Economics 69.3; Computer Science 68.3; Technology 68.0; Mechanically-based Engineering 66.2; Politics 65.9

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