Queen Mary, University of London

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The Queen Mary University of London is one of the UK's leading research-focused higher education institutions. With 25,332 students, 4,000 staff, and an annual turnover of £400m, we are among the most prominent University of London colleges. We teach and research across various subjects in the humanities, social sciences, law, medicine and dentistry, and science and engineering. We are based in a creative and culturally diverse area of east London, and our site in Mile End is one of the largest self-contained residential campuses in the capital. Queen Mary has made a strategic commitment to the highest quality of research. We have invested in this principle by systematically recruiting the best academics in their disciplines worldwide. The results of the most recent national assessment of research – the Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) – have confirmed our place in the very top group of research-led universities in the UK. Overall we were ranked 9th in the UK among multi-faculty universities and 5th in the UK for the percentage of our three* and 4* research outputs.
Queen Mary is one of 24 leading UK universities represented by the Russell Group committed to maintaining the very best research, an outstanding teaching and learning experience, excellent graduate employability, and unrivaled links with business and the public sector. Queen Mary offers outstanding students a stimulating, supportive, and high-quality learning experience, with teaching inspired by our world-leading research. Queen Mary ranks top in London among Russell Group universities for student satisfaction (National Student Survey 2016), with a number of our subject areas receiving over 90 percent for 'overall satisfaction' including Medicine, Dentistry, Law, and English.
We have invested £105m in new facilities over the past five years to offer our students an exceptional learning environment. Recent developments include the £39m Graduate Centre, 7,700 square meters of learning and teaching space, and the Dentistry Building, the UK's first new dental school in forty years. Future developments include the planned Life Sciences Building, which will play a vital role in the regeneration of the wider Whitechapel area following Crossrail's arrival. Queen Mary is part of the internationally recognized University of London, which counts some of the leading higher education institutions globally. Queen Mary students can use a host of University of London facilities, including the central University Library at Senate House, where you can access thousands of books and journals. QMUL has a long-standing commitment to sharing knowledge and engaging with local communities, which has been at the heart of its ethos since its inception. QMUL began life in 1887 as the People's Palace – a Victorian philanthropic center created to bring education and culture to the East End of London. Today QMUL's community provides staff and students the opportunity to gain knowledge, develop skills, and make a positive contribution both locally and globally.
The Queen Mary University of London is based in one of the world's global cities, and our international community reflects this. We have students and staff representing 162 nationalities. Our partnerships and activities around the world allow us to deliver teaching and research with an international dimension and impact; the success of research at Queen Mary is due to the high caliber and dedication of our researchers and supporting staff and the excellent working environments within our research teams, centers, and institutes. We are distinguished by outstanding results in national research assessments, high research funding levels, and ambitious plans for the future. Our values and aims about research are simple – our mission depends on the freedom of our staff and students to pursue and share knowledge within the context of promoting an open, enquiring, educated, and tolerant society, recognizing that this fosters the progress of research and benefits society as a whole. We are dedicated to hiring the best and the brightest and giving them the support and resources they need. Finally, we are committed to developing our researchers' careers and to promoting equality and diversity at all levels.

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