About QMUL

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Queen Mary University of London is a leading research-intensive university with a difference – one that opens the doors of opportunity to anyone with the potential to succeed. It is a unique place of world-leading research and unparalleled diversity and inclusivity, that lives and breathes its history and heritage and is embedded in the communities it serves.

Key facts

• Our history dates back to 1785, with the founding of The London Hospital Medical College, England’s first official medical school.
• We are a Russell Group university, operating across five campuses in London and at sites across Europe and Asia.
• We are ranked 14^th in the UK and 117^th in the world by the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings.
• Our annual income in 2021/22 was £613.3m (excluding capital grants), of which £121.1m was research income (excluding capital grants).

Our community

• We have over 33,000 students on degree programmes and close to 5,400 members of staff.¹
• Our students are drawn from over 170 nationalities: approximately 41 per cent are from overseas.
• Queen Mary was recognised as the most inclusive Russell Group university in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2021. The authors noted: “Queen Mary continues to prove that social inclusion and academic success are not mutually exclusive.”
• Of our London domestic undergraduate students, more than 92 per cent are from state schools; 75 per cent are BAME, and 49 per cent are first into higher education.
• In 2021, a Sutton Trust report named us as the best university for social mobility in the country.