Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

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Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, is committed to providing thoroughly relevant teaching and research. Our research is focused on making a real practical impact on everyday life, and our courses are designed to produce well prepared, well rounded, and flexible graduates. We have widely recognized expertise in health and rehabilitation, sustainable business and creativity, and culture. In this section of our website, you can find out about the university's history, along with information about governance, the Principal and Vice-Chancellor, the senior management team, and our collaborative partners. You will also find practical information, including travel and transport information and policy and strategy documents.
Our mission is to foster intellectual capital with both a theoretical and practical focus, giving students and staff the confidence to make a real difference to the world around them. We are known for excellent, relevant teaching, research, knowledge exchange, and the care and respect we give our students, staff, and partners. As a thriving campus university, we strive to create a community without borders, improving people's lives locally, nationally, and internationally. We are ambitious and enterprising, and, in everything we do, we are committed to social justice.
At Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, our vision is to be a university of ideas and influence.
Outward looking, we are responsive to society's changing needs and make a real difference in the world. We have widely recognized expertise in health & rehabilitation, sustainable business, and creativity & culture.
Our research and knowledge exchange work is focused on making a real practical impact on everyday life.
In this section of our website, you can find out about the university's history, along with information about governance, the Principal and Vice-Chancellor, the senior management team, and our collaborative partners.
We have a proud history of achievement and progress extending for well over a century.
Founded in 1875, we have always been driven by the highest ideals and purposes, focusing on contributing to practical ways of improving people's lives and serving the community.
The institution now named Queen Margaret University was established as the Edinburgh School of Cookery in 1875.
This institution emerged in a substantial period for real economic progress and characterized by social and economic divisions and inequalities, and widespread poverty. The School was established as a voluntary effort to address two fundamental problems facing society at the time.
 

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