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Queen Mary, www.qmul.ac.uk

Queen Mary, University of London is one of London and the UK's leading research-focused higher education institutions. One of the three largest of the of the University of London, Queen Mary’s 3,000 staff deliver world-class degree programmes and research across a wide range of subjects in , Social Sciences and Laws; in Medicine and Dentistry; and in Science and Engineering.

• With a budget of £270 million per annum and a yearly • Having made in excess of a £200 million investment economic impact on the UK economy of over £600 million, in facilities, Queen Mary is unique amongst London’s Queen Mary offers a strong and diverse environment to its in being able to offer an integrated residential 15,000 students. campus, with a 2,000-bed award-winning Student Village on its campus.

Research Assessment Exercise 2008

• In the 2008 Research Assessment • Queen Mary also excelled in a range Cancer Studies (ranked 5th equal Exercise (RAE), Queen Mary was of subject groups, being in the top ahead of Oxford, Imperial, King’s ranked 13th in the country out five in many, including: and UCL). of the 132 institutions which Linguistics (ranked 1st ahead of UCL, • Queen Mary was also ranked in the submitted for the exercise, Oxford and ) highest quartile in: according to the Times Higher Law Education. The Guardian placed Geography (ranked 1st equal with Iberian Languages Queen Mary even higher, 11th in Bristol, Cambridge, Durham and History the UK. Oxford) Computer Science • The Drama, Dance and Performing and Econometrics commented “the biggest star among Arts (ranked 1st for Drama, but Other hospital-based clinical the research-intensive institutions 2nd equal in the unit of assessment subjects. was Queen Mary, University of with the department ahead of us London.” not being entered for Drama) • In addition, Queen Mary recorded Dentistry (ranked 2nd ahead of King’s substantial RAE achievements • In the RAE 2008, Queen Mary was and UCL) in a number of other extremely ranked 3rd amongst University of competitive subjects, including London multi-faculty colleges and English Language and Literature Russian, French, Materials, ahead of several (ranked 2nd ahead of UCL, Oxford Politics, Pure Maths and Electronic institutions, including King’s and Cambridge) Engineering. Business and London, Bristol, Sheffield, Leeds, Epidemiology and Public Health Management, despite being a new Nottingham, Birmingham, (ranked 3rd ahead of Oxford, UCL department that was not entered Southampton, Liverpool and and Bristol) in the 2001 RAE, has equalled Newcastle. the Cass Business School at City Pre-clinical and Human Biological University in the Times Higher RAE Sciences (ranked 4th ahead of ranking, coming within the top half King’s, Bristol and Nottingham) of business schools. Health Services Research (ranked 4th ahead of Oxford, UCL and King’s).

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Queen Mary, University of London www.qmul.ac.uk

• Queen Mary, as a member of the • Queen Mary's locations span London's 1994 Group of research-focused diverse districts. Two of our four universities, has made a strategic campuses are in East London, in the commitment to the highest quality of Borough of Tower Hamlets between The research, but also to the best possible City and Canary Wharf, a multicultural educational, cultural and social and socially diverse area that is one of experience for its students. Indeed, the most rapidly developing parts of we believe that a vibrant research London. We have the advantage of being environment means that our students the London research-focused university have access to the world’s leading closest to the site of the 2012 Olympic experts in their chosen subjects. We Games, only two miles from the Mile have invested in this principle through End site, our main residential campus. a systematic programme of recruiting to Whitechapel is home to part of Barts and Queen Mary the best academic staff in The London School of Medicine and their disciplines from around the world. Dentistry, focused on the stunning Alsop and AMEC-designed Blizard Building, • Queen Mary benefits from housing the largest open plan membership of the University of laboratories in Europe. London. The University consists of 19 excellent Colleges and the prestigious • Our other campuses are in central institutes of the School of Advanced London: The School of Medicine and Study, with a number of central Dentistry at Charterhouse Square resources, including the Senate which is located on the edge of the City House library. of London, the key financial district. Our of Law and the • Queen Mary’s distinctiveness also world-famous Centre for Commercial arises from its commitment to an Law Studies is based at Lincoln’s Inn engagement with international Fields, in London’s legal district excellence in education and research, and a twin commitment to bring that engagement to bear on its London and Thames Gateway environment through educational outreach and knowledge transfer projects. You can read about our strategic commitments, our mission and the special character of Queen Mary in our 2006-2010 Strategic Plan (www.qmul.ac.uk/about/ collegeinfo/docs/strategicplan0610.pdf).

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• In addition to our London locations, we offer two Joint Degree Programmes to a Queen Mary’s excellence in teaching and research projected population of 2,000 students is focused on its departments and schools: in Beijing, in collaboration with our close partners, Beijing University of Posts and Humanities, Social Science and Engineering Telecommunications (BUPT), the first of such programmes to be approved Sciences and Law • Biological and Chemical Sciences by the Chinese Ministry of Education. • Business and Management • Electronic Engineering and • Economics Computer Science • These programmes are a key • English and Drama • Engineering and Materials Science component of our comprehensive • Languages, Linguistics and Film • Mathematical Sciences International Strategy, which is focused (Film Studies, French, German, • Physics around the concepts of partnership Hispanic Studies, Linguistics, Barts and The London and a sustainable involvement in a Russian) range of countries around the world, • Geography School of Medicine as well as valuing and supporting • History and Dentistry our 2,800 international students in • Laws (including the Centre for London. Commercial Law Studies) • Institute of Cancer • Politics • Institute of Cell and Molecular • Queen Mary also collaborates with Science Royal Holloway, University of London • Institute of Dentistry to support the University of London • Institute of Health Sciences Institute in Paris. Education • William Harvey Research Institute • Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine

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Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry www.smd.qmul.ac.uk

Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry is one of the UK’s leading medical and dental schools. It offers international levels of excellence in research and teaching while serving a population of unrivalled diversity, amongst which cases of diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, TB, oral disease and cancers are prevalent.

• The results of the 2008 Research • Research is focused on: Assessment Exercise confirmed Barts translation of basic research into and The London as one of the UK’s top patients four medical schools and first in cancer London. The dental school was ranked cardiovascular 2nd overall and 1st equal by 4* and 3* dentistry outputs. inflammation endocrinology/metabolism • The School has almost 1,000 members immunology and infectious diseases of staff and its annual turnover is skin disease approximately £86 million, of which genomics over £40 million is competitively neuroscience awarded external research income gastroenterology • Barts and The London offers an additional to that received from epidemiology innovative and distinctive educational HEFCE. This places Barts and The public health and primary care experience to our 2,300 undergraduate London in the top tier of research and 1,000 postgraduate students, active medical and dental schools. • The School is nationally and which we believe to be different from, internationally recognised for research and broader than that offered by other • Through partnership with our linked in these areas. Its fundamental mission, London medical schools. We offer our trusts, notably Barts and The London with its partner NHS Trusts, and other students exposure to research and NHS Trust, and our associated partner organisations, such as Cancer clinical environments with worldwide University Hospital Trusts – Homerton, Research UK, is to ensure that that the reputations; the exceptionally rich Newham, Whipps Cross and Queen’s best possible clinical service is cultural and social diversity of east (Romford), the School’s research underpinned by the very latest London; and a varied and innovative and teaching is informed by an developments in scientific and clinical mixture of educational opportunities to exceptionally wide ranging and teaching, training and research. accommodate different learning styles. stimulating clinical environment.

• At the heart of the School’s mission lies world class research, the result of a focused programme of recruitment of leading research groups from the UK and abroad and a £100 million investment in state-of-the-art facilities.

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