Notes to Editors
Queen Mary, University of London is one of the UK’s leading research-focused higher education institutions with some 16,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Amongst the largest of the institutions of the University of London, Queen Mary’s 3,000 staff deliver world-class degree programmes and research across three faculties: Science and Engineering; Humanities and Social Sciences and Medicine and Dentistry.
One of the rising stars in UK higher education, Queen Mary was ranked 11th nationally in the last Research Assessment Exercise, and was rated as one of the world’s elite universities in the 2011 Times Higher Education’s Top 200 World University Rankings.
The university has a strong international reputation with around 23 per cent of students coming from over 130 countries.
Queen Mary has an annual turnover of £300m, research income worth £70m, and a yearly impact on the UK economy of over £750m.
Queen Mary, as a member of the 1994 Group of research-focused universities, has made a strategic commitment to the highest quality of research, but also to the best possible educational, cultural and social experience for its students.
The university is unique among London’s universities in being able to offer a completely integrated residential campus, with a 2,000-bed award-winning Student Village on its Mile End campus.