Campus Profile - Queen Mary

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  • Contact Details
    Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
    tel +44 (0)20 7882 5555
    www.qmul.ac.uk
  • Date Completed
    2010/2011
  • Term Time Dates
    Autumn Term: 23rd September - 18th December 2010
    Spring Term: 10th January - 1st April 2011
    Summer Term: 26th April - 11th June
  • Times ‘Good University Guide’ Ranking
    28th
  • Number of Students
    16,726

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  • Key Courses – 5 Biggest Departments
    Department
    Engineering & Technology 3203
    Humanities 2383
    Medicine, Dentistry & Veterinary Science 2193
    Science 1444
    Social Sciences 1275
  • Type of University
    Queen Mary, University of London is a constituent college of the University of London with roots dating back to 1785. The modern Queen Mary is formed from four historic colleges and since joining the University of London in 1915 has become one of the University’s largest colleges offering degree programmes and research across 21 academic departments and institutes.
  • Layout
    TThe college has four campuses within London, at Mile End, Whitechapel, Charterhouse Square and Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
  • Key Features
    Queen Mary offers a groundbreaking joint degree programme with Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, one of China’s top engineering universities. This was the first of its kind to be approved by the PRC Ministry of Education and the students receive two degrees, one from each university.
  • Key Buildings
    The Queens’ Building is the main administrative building on campus and is the main entrance to the College. Alongside the main reception, it is home to computing services, the residences office, the alumni office, the careers service, the registry and the finance office as well as the department of economics. At the back of the building is the Octagon.
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  • Notable Alumni
    • Kia Abdullah - Novelist
    • Alia Bano - playwright
    • Frank Chapman - CEO of BG Group
    • Dr Thomas Barnardo - Children’s philanthropist
    • Sir Malcolm Bradbury - Novelist
    • Bernard Butler - Indie guitarist
    • Peter Caruana - Chief Minister of Gibraltar
    • Graham Chapman - Monty Python star
    • Adrian Chiles - BBC presenter
    • Bruce Dickinson - Member of Iron Maiden
    • Michael Duff - string theorist
    • Baroness Falkender - Politician
    • Romola Garai - Actress
    • Roy Goode - Commercial Lawyer and Author.
    • Sean Gilder - Actor
    • Roger Tan Kor Mee - senior Malaysian lawyer
    • Peter Hain - Labour MP, Former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales.
    • Mike Hennessy - Olympic rower
    • Richard Budgett - Gold medal winning Olympic rower
    • Martin Cross - Gold medal winning Olympic rower
    • Martyna Snopek - Paralympic rower
    • Jane Hill - Newsreader, BBC News
    • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - Novelist and Academy Award winning screenwriter
    • Sir Michael Lyons - Chairman of the BBC Trust
    • Alasdair MacIntyre - philosopher
    • Sir Peter Mansfield - Nobel Prize winning physicist
    • Basil Markesinis - International Lawyer
    • Bill O’Reilly - Host of The O’Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel
    • Jeremy Phillips - Intellectual Property lawyer.
    • Geoffrey Robertson - Human Rights lawyer
    • Prannoy Roy - Indian journalist
    • Sir Roy Strong - Historian
    • James Theaker - Radio DJ
    • David Sullivan - Pornographer and owner of the Sport and Sunday Sport newspapers
    • Sir John Meurig Thomas - Chemist
    • Roger Tilling - Broadcaster and voice of University Challenge
    • Kate Williams - Broadcaster and Historian
    • Robert Winston, Baron Winston - Pioneer of in vitro fertilisation
    • Matthew Roberts - Disc Jockey
    • Eleanor Goodwin - Disc Jockey and PR specialist
    • Dr Thomas Dyson - Commercial Lawyer
    • Peter Edward Taylor - Actor
    • Scott Thomas Waldrup - American Ambassador
    • Peter Edwin Harrison - Writer and Director
    • Caroline Spelman - Current Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
    • W.G Grace - Cricketer