Queen Mary University of London(English) Queen Mary University of London, abbreviated as QMUL or QM) is a higher education institution in London (UK), a public research university and one of the founders of the federal University of London. This is one of the largest and most prestigious universities in the UK. It traces its history from the Medical College of the London Hospital, founded in 1785. The university was formed from the merger of four historic colleges. Named after Mary of Teck, Queen of Great Britain.
Queen Mary University of London is the only metropolitan university with a fully self-sufficient campus in the center of London (dormitories, shops, restaurants, banks, etc.). The educational institution consists of 5 campuses, the largest of which is located in Mile End (eastern part of the city). The rest of the campuses are located in the areas of Whitechapel, Charterhouse Square and Smithfield (departments of medicine and dentistry), as well as Holborn (master's departments of the School of Law, Commercial Law Research Center). The main building is adjacent to Brick Lane and Shoreditch tube stations. The City, Canary Wharf and Olympic Park are within close proximity.
The university has about 17,000 full-time students. The university staff consists of 4000 employees. The annual turnover of the university is about 350 million pounds, of which about 100 million pounds the university receives as research grants and contracts. Queen Mary University consists of three faculties - the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, the Barts Institute and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry.
In 2014, Queen Mary University was ranked thirty-fifth among British universities. In 2013, the university was ranked 115th out of 700 universities worldwide and 19th in the UK. In addition, in 2013, the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Academic Ranking of World Universities placed the university in the top 30 in the UK and in the third hundred worldwide. There are five Nobel Prize winners among the University's alumni.
The university is a member of the Russell Group, a group of leading research universities in the UK. The university is in a strategic partnership with the University of Warwick and is partnering with the Royal Holloway of the University of London to launch the University of London Institute program in Paris.
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Academic Profile
The university has about 4,000 employees. The main specializations of education and science of the university are humanitarian, social, legal, medical and technical areas. Slightly more than 30 percent of foreign students representing 130 countries of the world.
Leading areas of training:
acting art - 1st place in the country; geography - 1st place in the country; linguistics - 1st place in the country; medicine - 1st place among universities in London; dentistry - 2nd place in the country; English language and literature - 2nd place in the country; economics, Spanish studies, law, Russian - in the national top 10.
Research activities
In 2009/10, the university received a total of £68.5 million in research grants and contracts, the highest research income of any UK university.
The University was ranked 11th by the Guardian's Research Assessment in December 2008 and ranked 13th by the Times Higher Education Supplement. The Times Higher described the university as "the biggest star among research-intensive institutions was Queen Mary University of London, which rose from 48th in 2001 to 13th in 2008, up 35 places." In 2012, the university was included in the Russell Group (a group of research-intensive universities in the UK) for the quality and quantity of scientific research.
Libraries
The main library is located on the Mile End campus and contains most of the university's books. The university also maintains two medical libraries in Whitechapel and West Smithfield. In addition, Queen Mary University students have access to the Senate Library.
Ratings
In the international ranking, the university ranks 115th in the QS World University Rankings. In addition, Queen Mary University of London is in the top 10 medical schools. The university ranks sixth among universities in the UK in terms of employment The value of the starting salary of university graduates is the second in the UK. According to the People's Student Survey 2011, Queen Mary University was ranked number one in the UK. In the aerospace industry, the university ranks 2nd, in the field of mechanical engineering it ranks fifth, among engineering universities it ranks 1st in London. The level of student satisfaction with the university reaches 88%.
Education documents issued by Queen Mary University of London are recognized in the Russian Federation without the nostrification procedure.
Faculties
Famous graduates
- Edgar Andrews - Professor Emeritus
- Rosemary A. Bailey - professor of statistics
- Axel Weber - German economist
- Peter Cameron - Professor of Mathematics
- Bernard Carr - mathematics and astronomy
- Roger Cotterell - professor of legal theory
- Toby Dodge - international politics
- Graham Dorrington - aeronautical engineer
- David Drury - glaciologist and geophysicist
- Michael Duff - Professor of Theoretical Physics
- William Ellison-Macartney - Governor of the People's Palace and Governor of Tasmania
- Felipe Fernandez-Armesto - Professor of Global Environmental History
- Robin Ganelin - Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
- George Hockham - Visiting Professor
- Michael Green - theoretical physicist
- William Harvey - physician
- Eric Heinze - Professor of Law and Humanities
- Peter Hennessy - Professor of Modern British History
- Tristram Hunt - contemporary British historian
- Julian Jackson - professor of history
- Lisa Jardine - professor
- Jeremy Jennings - Professor of Political Theory
- Colin Jones - professor of history
- Gwyn Jones - professor of physics
- Peter Kalmas - Distinguished Professor of Physics
- Peter Landin - Professor of Theoretical Computer Science
- Sidney Lee - Professor of English
- Frederick Barton Maurice - British general and military historian
- Michael Mingos - chemistry (1971-1976)
- Nicholas O'Shaughnessy - Professor of Marketing and Communications
- James Parkinson - Parkinson's disease
- Maurice Peston, Baron - Professor of Economics
- Leslie Rees - Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemical Endocrinology
- John Rantoul - Contemporary British History
- Harold Roper Robinson - professor of physics
- Jacqueline Rose - professor of English
- Miri Rubin - professor of modern history
- Charles Saumarez Smith - British art historian
- Denise Shir - professor of human genetics
- Quentin Skinner - professor of humanities
- Adrian Smith - statistician and former chief
- Karen Wosden - professor of genetics
- Robert Watson - Professor of Environmental Sciences
- Martin Weale - Professor of Economics
- Robert Winston, Baron Winston - pioneering in vitro fertilization researcher
- Sir Nicholas Wright - Professor of Medicine
- Alec David Young - Professor of Aeronautical Engineering
Notes
- Table 0a – All students by institution, mode of study, level of study, gender and domicile 2010/11(English) (Microsoft Excel spreadsheet). Higher Education Statistics Agency. Retrieved July 19, 2012.
- About Queen Mary, University of London(English) . Queen Mary, University of London. Retrieved 11 January 2011.
- Nobel Prize Winners(English) . Retrieved 24 August 2012.
- Queen Mary Staff Survey 2011 (ARCS report) PDF document(English) . ARCS. Retrieved September 12, 2011.
- (English), Times Higher Education (7 April 2011). Retrieved April 8, 2011.
- The Guardian, RAE 2008: results for UK universities (English) , The Guardian(December 18, 2008). Retrieved April 13, 2010.
- (English) (PDF). Retrieved 2 September 2010.
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Queen Mary University of London is one of the leading research universities in the UK, part of the University of London.
To date, its well-coordinated work is provided by 4,000 employees. More than 21 thousand people from different parts of the world are students, of which about 1,500 study by correspondence.
History of occurrence
The university was formed as a result of the gradual merger of four colleges:
- Queen Mary, in whose building in 1887 a charitable foundation for the development of the cultural, social and public life of East Londoners began its work;
- Westfield - the first institution of higher education for girls;
- College at St. Bartholomew's Hospital;
- London Hospital Medical College - England's first medical school.
Educational activities
QMUL provides undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate, and Foundation preparatory courses for international students.
Consists of 3 faculties:
- humanities and social sciences, which includes the departments of business and management, economics and finance, English language and literature, linguistics and cinema, law, politics;
- Natural Sciences and Engineering, which includes the Institute of Biology and Chemistry, Electronic Technology and Informatics, Physics and Astronomy;
- medicine and dentistry, subdivided into the Institute of Cancer, Preventive Medicine, etc.
Goals
- ensuring high quality education, including through the development and improvement of curricula, as well as through interdisciplinary and international research,
- support for scientists to implement their ideas,
- providing educational and cultural opportunities for people from all walks of life.
Competitions are regularly held for obtaining grants, scholarships, and awards to support young scientists, and contacts are being established with successful foreign companies and holdings.
Achievements
- top 100 best universities in the world according to Times Higher Education magazine,
- ranks 98th in the world, 16th in the United Kingdom in the World University Rankings,
- one of 24 members of the elite Russell Group,
- 19th in the list of the safest educational institutions in England and Wales.
The University is rightly proud of its graduates. Many of them became prominent public figures and made a significant contribution to the development of various scientific areas, art, healthcare, politics: science fiction writer James Graham Ballard, writer Sarah Waters, rock musician Bruce Dickinson, Olympic champion Martin Cross, Professor Carl Murray, developer bar-coding systems George Sims, Nobel laureates Ronald Ross, Henry Hallet Dale and others.
Campus
The campus is the largest in central London. There are 5 campuses on its territory. Schools of the humanities and social sciences are based in the main building of Mile End. Whitechapel is the main training site for medical students. Charterhouse Square, West Smithfield includes a hospital, a specialized library, laboratories for postgraduate medical research. Lincoln's Inn Fields is a graduate law center.
One of the most active student unions in the English capital operates here, which organizes over 300 events a year. The provision of leisure and comfortable living for students is facilitated by:
- 40 sports clubs for aikido, hockey, fencing, rowing, yoga, etc.,
- squash court,
- gym, fitness center,
- a 24-hour library that provides the necessary access to books, rare editions, newspapers, archives, video collections,
- the shops,
- restaurants, cafes, pubs,
- laundry,
- ATMs.
Picturesque parks, museums, galleries, theaters, nightclubs are located in the immediate vicinity of the campus. Students have all the conditions for comfortable learning and recreation.
Many people ask me about my university, they say, where do you study, something we have not heard about such a university, or vice versa, they begin to groan about what a famous university I have. Well, here, in order to bring some clarity and understanding, I tell you literally first-hand. The information was collected by me from the wiki, from the website of the university, from the website of the student union, and I just googled it. As well as all the photos in this post. My photos are NOT here.
STORY. So, if you start with history, we can say that Queen Mary is one of the oldest universities in England, because it originates from St. Bartholomew's hospital, founded in 1182. Remember this name, it will often pop up and be mentioned. On the basis of this hospital, the first medical college in England was founded, which later in 1843 became St. Barthlomew's school of medicine, which quickly dwindled to Bart's school of medicine, and St. Bartholomew's Hospital still stands in its original place and accepts patients. By the way, this is one of the best hospitals in England (well, at least one of the oldest)) and Barts students study on its basis and do internships in it. Well, Barts is now called Barts. In fact, the hospital is also called that))
So, after the 12th century, a lot of water has flowed under the bridge. Barts merged with Westfield College, and then this association of educational institutions was taken under the patronage of Queen Mary, and Queen Mary and Westfield College appeared. It was around 1885 and the main patron of the university was the Draper's company, which had a great influence in London and contributed to the development and recognition of the university. More specifically, they were patrons or trustees of the university. Well, judging by the archives of stories, it was almost a “roof” in general. Now, in memory of those days, we have Draper's bar on campus.
In 1938, Mile End left the university for the first time. The only time in its history. He was evacuated to Cambridge along with Kings due to the threat of war. The university spent the entire war there. And with Kings we are still irreconcilable rivals, almost like Durham-Cambridge-Oxford. Well, except that in London, rowers don’t really have where to accelerate on the canals.
Well, then, the name changed, the college received the status of a university, and in 1985 Queen Mary University appeared. In 1992 he was admitted to the University of London and the name became the same as now: Queen Mary University of London.
STRUCTURE. The university now consists of 3 main departments, which unite 27 faculties. Departments:
Humanities and Social Sciences, which includes the faculties of law, political science, art, design, and so on.
Science and Engineering - physical, chemical, engineering faculties, etc.
And finally, Barts school of medicine and dentistry - where, in addition to general medicine and dentistry, there are also departments for fighting cancer, studying heart disease, and so on. it is the best medical faculty in England and one of the best medical faculties in the world.
FACILITIES. With so many diverse faculties, the university, of course, needs vast territories. The main location of the university is Mile End. here are administrative buildings - the main one, of which the Queen's Building was built just in 1885 and previously had the name People's palace. 2 years after the opening, Queen Mary opened the Hall in the palace, and subsequently the name in honor of the queen passed to the entire building. In addition, there are several faculties, the main library, a bar, dormitories, a gym and more. here is my beloved Octagon - the old library of the university. photo of the library below. all the books there are real and sooooo old.
Holborn is home to the Center for Commercial Legal Studies (CCLS) - a master's and doctoral program in the law school. Yes, we are rogues and we live on our own in the very center of London's legal life. Lincoln's Inn Fields - across the square from us. And the Royal Court of Justice can be reached in a straight line in 7 minutes.
The areas of Whitechapel, Charterhouse Square and West Smithfield (the latter two are in the Barbican area) are home to Barts, all of his medical laboratories, research centers and two hospitals. Students of medical faculties also live there - in hostels very close to the educational buildings. Charterhouse generally looks like a small castle in the middle of a big city. I have lectures on arbitration and commercial in it. moreover, the arbitration takes place in a sooooo old building behind huge wooden desks. and they drown there terribly, it's old)))
By the way, from 1964 to 1986, under the campus on Mile End was the university's own nuclear reactor. I was also shocked when I found out. And God forbid, Chernobyl?! In memory of this terrible thing, we have a monument, as I thought it was garbage, but it turned out to be an atom))
Well, about the cemetery on the territory of Mile End, everyone has already heard from me!)) By the way, it turned out to be one of the oldest cemeteries in England O_o. it is a cemetery of Spanish-Portuguese Jews dated 1726. And nothing, we live with a cemetery in the middle of the university.
and until recently, in the language building, in the basement, there was a morgue, because doctors used to study there. The morgue was only removed a couple of years ago. More precisely, they were transferred from there to the medical corps.
Well, again, I repeat that in London only Queen Mary has such a single complex of educational and residential buildings as Mile End. Especially considering that it is located in the 2nd zone of London, which is considered the central part of the city. and three more are currently being built across the street from the current buildings to provide more space for future students.
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