Queen Mary University of London

Queen Mary University of London

History:

Queen Mary's roots lie in four historic colleges: Queen Mary College, West field College, St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College and the London Hospital Medical College.

The college was first established in 1887 and was admitted to the University of London in 1915.

Queen Mary merged with the medical schools of St Bartholomew's and the Royal London hospitals in 1995.

Queen Mary University of London is a member of the Russell Group of leading UK universities, recognition of its excellence in research and teaching. The Group, which includes other top universities such as Oxford, Cambridge and UCL, attracts some of the brightest students from all over the world and almost two-thirds of research funding in the UK. Graduates from Russell Group universities are especially valued by employers, giving them a head start when they apply for jobs.

Location and Transport:

Queen Mary is inner London’s only campus based university. The main campus at Mile End is also the largest self-contained university campus in London.

The best of both worlds: a quiet campus set along the Regent’s Canal and only 15 minutes by underground from Oxford Street, central London. We are also in the heart of London’s East End, one of the most vibrant and exciting parts of the city, with Spitalfields, Brick Lane and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park all on our doorstep. 

Queen Mary is made up of five campuses across central and east London: Charterhouse Square, Lincoln's Inn Fields, West Smithfield, Whitechapel and Mile End.

All our campuses are well connected to a range of public transport, including the London Underground system, with central London just minutes away.

Entry Standards:

Courses require between 300 and 380 entry points.

Entry to Medicine and Dentistry, Law and English courses are particularly competitive.

For more detailed information on entry standards, visit the website.

We welcome students and staff from more than 150 countries who play a vital part in the life of the university.

A-Level and GCSE Requirements

AS/A level:

Currently only applicants to our School of Medicine and Dentistry are required to achieve a minimum B grade in an AS-level in addition to three A-levels. From 2017 entry we expect to require three A-level passes with a minimum A grade including either Biology or Chemistry and a further Science A-level from Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics. We will not require an additional pass in an AS level.

For admission to all other courses we will require three A-level passes and may specify minimum grades in specific subjects.

GCSE:

From 2017 entry we expect to require a minimum achievement of grade 8 in three GCSEs and grade 7 in a further three GCSEs, including Biology and Chemistry or Double Science, Maths and English from applicants to our School of Medicine and Dentistry. While GCSE performance is routinely considered in a holistic assessment of applications to all other courses, we do not currently specify achievement of a minimum number of passes at specific grades in GCSE qualifications, beyond minimum requirements in English and Mathematics, normally at current grade B or C. We expect to map these grades to the new grading scheme, treating grade C as equivalent to the new grade 4 or 5. We will publish specific GCSE requirements in our undergraduate prospectus for 2017 entry in March 2016.

For more information, please see: http://www.qmul.ac.uk/undergraduate/entry/index.html

Course Flexibility:

A course unit plan is in operation, through which understudies can pick extra units, incorporating modules in dialects. 

Exchange between courses is considered by..

* Huge numbers of our projects offer understudies the chance to concentrate abroad for a semester or a year at one of our accomplice colleges in Australia, Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore or the USA. 

* Some of our scholastic Schools likewise offer the alternative to put in a year in industry to increase important experience of work. 

* We likewise offer establishment programs, coordinated experts degrees, and intercalated degrees for those searching for more adaptable courses to fit their necessities. 

Instructing Standards: 

Ruler Mary considers its instructing important; little workshop bunches give understudies general and close contact with scholastics and educating staff. 

In 2012, Dr Peter Howarth from Queen Mary's School of English and Drama won the prestigious National Teaching Fellowship. QM is one of just two foundations in the nation whose staff have been honored Fellowships consistently since 2006. Dr Howarth's arrangement brings the aggregate number of Queen Mary National Teaching Fellows to nine. 

• Previous champs incorporate scholastics from the Schools of English, Dentistry and Health Sciences. 

Understudy fulfillment with the nature of the showing they get at Queen Mary remains reliably high. In the latest National Student Survey (NSS 2014), our understudies lauded staff for clarifying their subject well (90 for each penny), for their energy (86 for every penny) and for making their course mentally invigorating (87 for every penny). 

Understudy Facilities: 

Around 1,600 understudy workstations are accessible crosswise over grounds. 

Roughly 97% of understudy rooms have web access. 

Our primary library is at Mile End. The medicinal libraries are at Whitechapel, West Smithfield and the Wolfson. 

Ruler Mary understudies can likewise get to the University of London libraries at Senate House. 

All QMUL understudies can get to free WiFi on our grounds and other part colleges through the eduroam system. 

Incapacity Services: 

For more data on the incapacity administrations at Queen Mary, visit: www.welfare.qmul.ac.uk/handicap or get in touch with us on: 

Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 2756 

Fax +44 (0)20 7882 2756 

Email: dds@qmul.ac.uk 

Understudies' Union:

A late multi-million pound redevelopment of the Union implies that our understudies have entry to another bar and club, and another Health and Fitness focus. 

Our Student Union bar, Drapers, was recompensed the Best Students' Union Venue (limit up to 1,000 persons) grant at the national Ents Forum in 2014. 

A hefty portion of the understudy social orders complete humanitarian effort inside of the nearby group, including Raise and Give (RAG), and the Legal Advice Center.

Sport:

The college's wellbeing and wellness focus QMotion offers a scope of activity classes and industry standard rec center gear for use by Queen Mary understudies. A ladies' just exercise center is additionally accessible. 

Offices on grounds incorporate a games corridor for badminton, fencing, b-ball, and indoor football. 

The football and rugby contributes are close-by Chislehurst; netball courts and astroturf contributes are found Mile End Park. 

The Mile End climbing divider and neighborhood swimming pool are additionally close by. 

Our understudies utilize the best in class donning offices at the Copper Box stadium and the Aquatics Center in the adjacent Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. 

All group activities contend in both the British University and Colleges Sport (BUCS) and the University of London alliances. 

Later/Prospective New Builds:

Ruler Mary has embraced a broad improvement program in the course of the most recent five years, contributing over £250 million over each of the five grounds. 

Grant winning advancements incorporate our imaginative medicinal school building and new Dental School at Whitechapel, and ArtsTwo, the new home for the School of History, with best in class offices for the Department of Drama and Film Studies. 

The new Graduate Center is under development, which will be a noteworthy new building for postgraduate understudies, giving cutting edge instructing, study, social and IT space at the Mile End grounds. 

Accessibility of Part-Time Work: 

Because of our various manager enlistment occasions, and nearness to Canary Wharf, the City, and focal London, Queen Mary understudies have a different scope of chances, including: 

Numerous on-grounds employments, for example, helping with gatherings, leading grounds visits, assisting with Open Days and working in our bistros and eateries. 

Several off-grounds employments crosswise over London by means of our JobOnline opportunity website. 

More than 1,200 chances to volunteer with our Students' Union in administration, sports, inventive, group and coaching parts. Our imaginative work experience plan, QProjects, places understudies in neighborhood philanthropies that need assistance with exercises, for example, adding to a site, arranging an occasion, applying for subsidizing or campaigning government. 

Bolster and preparing for business people and a dynamic business visionaries' general public. 

Vocations Guidance: 

The Queen Mary Careers and Enterprise Center gives support on CV and application-composing, meeting system and other boss enlistment strategies, to offer understudies some assistance with applying for temporary positions, low maintenance work or a graduate part. 

Understudies additionally have the chance to meet bosses on grounds with around 200 businesses and preparing associations going to the grounds every year. Ruler Mary graduated class additionally come back to the grounds to impart their encounters of the working environment to current understudies. 

Prominent Alumni: 

Dr Paul Bruce Dickinson, graduated with a History degree from Queen Mary in 1979 and was granted a privileged doctorate of music in 2011 – Iron Maiden artist, writer, film script essayist and TV and radio supporter, champion fencer, business visionary and business aircraft commander. 

JG Ballard (1930–2009), selected on an English Literature degree at Queen Mary in 1951 – author, his most outstanding works incorporate the disputable Crash (1973) and the personal novel, Empire of the Sun (1984), both of which have been adjusted to film. 

Sir Roy Strong, History 1956 – workmanship student of history, guardian, essayist, telecaster and scene architect. He was some time ago Director of the National Portrait Gallery (1967–73). 

Educator Sir Peter Mansfield, Queen Mary – Sir Peter entered Queen Mary College in 1956 to study material science. He is known for his work in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). He was honored a Nobel Prize in 2003, imparted to Paul Lauterbur of the US. 

Graham Chapman, Barts former student, qualified in Medicine in 1962 – he shaped the drama bunch Monty Python's Flying Circus with his counterparts John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam in 1969. The BBC TV arrangement was a moment hit. 

Noble Marcia Falkender CBE, graduated with a degree in History in 1954 – she got to be secretary to the General Secretary of the Labor Party in 1955 and was Harold Wilson's private and political secretary from 1956–83. Noble Falkender turned into an individual from the House of Lords in 1974. 

The Rt. Hon. Diminish Hain MP, Economics and Politics, 1973 – past Secretary of State for Wales and has been Member of Parliament for the Welsh electorate of Neath since 1991. 

Rt. Hon. Caroline Spelman MP, graduated with a degree in European Studies (German) in 1980 – she was Secretary for State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 2010-2012 in the Liberal Democratic–Conservative coalition government. 

Sir James Parkinson, understudy at The London Hospital in 1776 – known for his portrayal of 'loss of motion agitans' in 1817, the shaking paralysis now known as Parkinson's infection. Like his dad and his child, filled in as a pharmacist in adjacent Hoxton. 

Dr Thomas Barnardo – the Victorian donor who effectively tried to save down and out kids from the lanes, got to be included in London's Ragged Schools Movement whilst a restorative understudy at the Royal London Hospital. 

Arthur Wint MBE (1920–92), Barts, 1953 – won Jamaica's first gold decoration at the 1948 London Olympics in the 400m, and a silver award in the 800m. In the 1952 Helsinki Games he again won gold and silver; he triumphed with his group in the 4x400m hand-off and came next in the 800m. Known as the Gentle Giant, Wint's statue remains before the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica. 

Priya Lakhani OBE graduated 2003 with a degree in law with financial aspects – she set up Masala, a scope of Indian sauces and prepared to-cook suppers sold by Ocado and Waitrose, and a going with philanthropy, the Masala Project, which guaranteed to give a hot dinner to a vagrant in India for each pot of her sauces sold. In 2013, she propelled her second business, Century Tech and was granted an OBE in 2014 for administrations to business.