Queen Mary University of London
| Motto | Latin: Coniunctis Viribus |
|---|---|
Motto in English | With united powers |
| Type | Public research university |
| Established | 1785 – The London Hospital Medical College 1843 – St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College 1882 – Westfield College 1887 – East London College/Queen Mary College |
| Affiliation | Universities UK Russell Group Association of Commonwealth Universities European University Association |
Academic affiliation | Alan Turing Institute Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine London International Development Centre Sepnet Science and Engineering South UCLPartners University of London Institute in Paris |
| Endowment | £48.0 million (2024) |
| Budget | £712.2 million (2023/24) |
| Chancellor | The Princess Royal (as Chancellor of the University of London) |
| Principal | Colin Bailey |
Academic staff | 3,745 (2023/24) |
Administrative staff | 2,920 (2023/24) |
| Students | 26,080 (2023/24) 24,420 FTE (2023/24) |
| Undergraduates | 17,590 (2023/24) |
| Postgraduates | 8,490 (2023/24) |
| Location | London, England, United Kingdom |
| Campus | Urban |
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| Website | qmul |
Queen Mary University of London (QMUL, or informally QM, and formerly Queen Mary and Westfield College) is a public research university in Mile End, East London, England. It is a member institution of the federal University of London.
Today, Queen Mary has six campuses across East and Central London in Mile End, Whitechapel, Charterhouse Square, Ilford, Lincoln's Inn Fields and West Smithfield, as well as an international presence in China, France, Greece and Malta. The Mile End campus is the largest self-contained campus of any London-based university. Queen Mary is organised into three faculties – the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Science and Engineering, and Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. In 2023/24 the university had around 32,000 students. The annual income of the institution for 2023–24 was £712.2 million of which £146.8 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £522.5 million.
Queen Mary is a member of the Russell Group of British research universities, the Association of Commonwealth Universities and Universities UK. Queen Mary is a major centre for medical teaching and research and is part of UCLPartners, the world's largest academic health science centre. Queen Mary runs programmes at the University of London Institute in Paris, taking over the functions provided by Royal Holloway.
There are nine Nobel laureates among Queen Mary's alumni, and current and former staff. Notable alumni include Ronald Ross, who discovered the origin and cure for malaria; Davidson Nicol, who discovered the breakdown of insulin in the human body; British politician Peter Hain; and Andrew Pollard, the chief investigator of the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.