Our geography
Our location forms a strong part of our brand identity, and we like to shout about this wherever appropriate. Whether the focus is the history of this unique part of London, the diverse communities with whom we work closely, or the opportunities that a world city has to offer, location is a vital and fascinating part of Queen Mary’s story.
Campuses
Queen Mary has five campuses in London and four overseas ones:
Mile End: our largest campus, home to most academic schools as well as several halls of residence, lecture theatres, and the Mile End Library. Note: while this is our largest campus, we never refer to it as our ‘main campus.’
Whitechapel: down the road from our Mile End campus is our Whitechapel one. This is the main home for our Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry where many of our Institutes and The Royal London Hospital can be found.
Charterhouse Square: home to the Wolfson Institute of Population Health, the John Vane Science Centre, the Joseph Rotblat Building and the William Harvey Heart Centre.
West Smithfield: a number of our cardiovascular, cancer, epidemiology, and public health research facilities are located here, as well as St Bartholomew’s Hospital and the West Smithfield Medical Library.
Lincoln’s Inn Fields: home to our Postgraduate Law Centre, the Centre for Commercial Law Studies.
Malta: We established a medical school on the island of Gozo in 2017 with a campus in Victoria.
China: Queen Mary runs three joint programmes with universities in China: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Nanchang University; and Northwestern Polytechnical University.
Singapore: Queen Mary offers a Dual LLM in Commercial Law in collaboration with Singapore Management University.
Paris: Queen Mary delivers its LLM programme in the heart of Paris, at the University of London Institute Paris with intakes in both September and January.
Notable buildings, places and spaces
- Queens’ Building (home to the Octagon)
- Graduate Centre
- People’s Palace
- Novo Cemetery
- Regent’s canalside
- Whitechapel Medical Library
- St Bartholomew’s Hospital (Barts) - home to West Smithfield Library
- The Blizard Building and Centre of the Cell
Talking about our location
Queen Mary provides a community and the security of a campus university within a dynamic and fast-moving city, and the (east) “London advantage” is a strength we like to play to. If you need to promote our location, then feel free to lift from the following copy, or use it as a guide (taken from our Complete University Guide 2022/2023 profile):
London attracts people from all over the globe. Its world-class museums and events cater for every interest. Queen Mary has five campuses across London. Its largest campus is in east London, just 15 minutes from central London and home to a diverse, creative atmosphere and exciting nightlife.
On our campuses, Drapers Bar & Kitchen and The Griff Inn provide great quality food and drink by day. By night, they host entertainment, live sport and weekly club nights.
Queen Mary is based in the heart of east London, home to quirky museums and art galleries, pop-up restaurants, bars, clubs, vintage shops, markets and independent cinemas.
Local attractions popular with students include Brick Lane, the Whitechapel Gallery, Boxpark Shoreditch, the Mile End Climbing Wall and the Genesis independent cinema.
Queen Mary’s Mile End campus is one stop on the tube from the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and one of Europe’s biggest urban shopping centres, Westfield Stratford City.
The Mile End campus is also a short walk from Victoria Park, one of London’s most popular green spaces, which hosts a food market on Sundays and music festivals in summer.
Queen Mary has campuses in east and central London. Undergraduate students are based in Mile End or Whitechapel, both in Zone 2.
All campuses are easily accessible by public transport. Many students commute from home, and there is dedicated support for them.
London has excellent rail connections to the rest of the UK. Queen Mary’s location offers easy access to all London airports.
Years of study
- Use the 12 hour clock: eg 7am and 1.30pm. Note the use of a full stop and no space between the digits and the am/pm.
- Use a hyphen to separate starting and finishing times: eg 7-9am.
Numbers in headlines
- We use these between two sentences or two parts of a sentence, where the second explains or expands on the first eg Our founding institutions gave us values that are relevant today: a commitment to social justice and equality.
- To introduce a quote that is a stand-alone sentence eg Bailey said: Queen Mary is an outstanding University.
- To introduce bullet points.
Things to note
Our capitalisation section and index offer detailed guidance on words and names that should be capitalised. But, while you’re here, there are two quick rules to note:
- Capitalise ‘University’ when we are talking about Queen Mary but not when we talk about universities in general.
- Lecture theatres, department names and buildings are always capitalised.