The Ranking of Queen Mary, University of London
Queen Mary, University of London (known as Queen Mary and Westfield College until 2000, and still officially named as such in its charter) is a constituent college of the University of London. Queen Mary is one of the largest Colleges of the University of London and it offers degree programmes and research across 21 academic departments and institutes, within three sectors: Science and Engineering; Humanities, Social Sciences and Laws; and Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry.
The College is a leading research-focused university, which was highly ranked in the official 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, placed 11th (The Guardian) and 13th (The Times Higher) nationally, out of 132 higher education institutions submitted. It has a strong international reputation, with 24 per cent of students coming from over 100 countries. Queen Mary incorporates several leading international research units such as the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, the Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Biomedical Materials, as well as many centres for medical and dental teaching and research.In particular the College is very highly reputed for English, Geography, Law, Linguistics and Medicine and Dentistry. Queen Mary has an annual turnover of £220 million, research income worth £43 million, and generates employment and output worth over £600 million to the UK economy each year.
The College is known for student employability: The Sunday Times ranked it second highest in the UK for graduate starting salaries after the London School of Economics. A new learning resource centre with 24-hour access opened in 2003, and a new student village with 2,000 en-suite rooms followed in 2004. More residences and an arts quarter, containing research facilities, a conference centre, drama studio and teaching space, were completed in 2006. In September 2008 a £6-million health and fitness centre was also opened on the College’s Mile End campus. A £15-million Humanities building is due to open in spring 2010 and a biosciences innovation centre is already under construction, next door to the £44-million award-winning Blizard Building — a striking new part of Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry's campus in Whitechapel.
Research
In the UK Research Assessment Exercise results published in December 2008 Queen Mary was ranked 11th, according to an analysis by The Guardian newspaper, and 13th according to The Times Higher Education Supplement, out of the 132 institutions submitted for the exercise. The Times Higher commented "the biggest star among the research-intensive institutions was Queen Mary, University of London, which went from 48th in 2001 to 13th in the 2008 Times Higher Education table, up 35 places."
Queen Mary is ranked third for research amongst University of London multi-faculty colleges.
Queen Mary was ranked 99th in The Times Higher Education Supplement rankings of higher education institutions worldwide in 2004, The Times Higher Education Supplement's peer review-based separate table for the top 100 international Universities in Arts and Humanities subjects included Queen Mary in joint 21st place in the world, alongside University College London. The Shanghai Jiao Tong University's 2007 Academic Ranking of World Universities placed it 57 - 80 in Europe and 151 - 201 globally, putting it level with LSE, Durham and St. Andrews. The 2007 CHE-ExcellenceRanking, examining the academic performance of graduate programs in natural sciences, placed Queen Mary in the European top group for biology and physics. In addition, The Guardian Newspaper's League Tables placed Queen Mary 12th in the UK in 2005; it was placed 42nd by The Times; and 28th in 2006. Queen Mary has also been ranked the sixth best UK university for student employability — with the second highest UK graduate starting salary.
In the 2008 official Research Assessment Exercise, according to the Times Higher Education rankings, Queen Mary was placed in the top five nationally, including:
- Linguistics (ranked 1st)
- Geography (ranked 1st equal with Bristol)
- Drama, dance and performing arts (ranked 1st for Drama, but 2nd equal in the unit of assessment with the department ahead of Queen Mary not being entered for Drama)
- Dentistry (ranked 2nd)
- English Language and Literature (ranked 2nd)
- Epidemiology and public health (ranked 3rd)
- Pre-clinical and human biological sciences (ranked 4th)
- Health Services Research (ranked 4th)
- Cancer studies (ranked 5th equal).
Queen Mary was also placed in the highest quartile in:
- Law
- Iberian Languages
- History
- Computer Science
- Economics and Econometrics
- Other hospital-based clinical subjects
In addition, Queen Mary has recorded substantial achievements in a number of other competitive subjects, including
- Russian
- French
- Materials
- Politics
- Pure Maths, and
- Electronic Engineering
Business and Management, a new department not entered in the 2001 RAE, has equalled the Cass Business School at City University, London in the Times Higher Education RAE rankings, coming within the top half of business schools.
University of London
Although the size and diversity of Queen Mary gives it all the characteristics and facilities of a university in its own right, it is also part of the federal University of London, a wide-ranging body comprising some 40 academic institutions and 120,000 students. Together, these make it the largest and most diverse university in the country. It also means that, although Queen Mary is a self-governing institution, our students are able to take advantage of the wide and varied educational and social facilities of the University of London. These include the Senate House library, which contains more than 1.4 million volumes, and the University of London Union (ULU), which is amongst the most active and lively in the country.
Departments and schools
- Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
- Medicine and Dentistry
- Science and Engineering
- Non-academic Departments
Queen Mary, University of London was ranked 160th in the 2008 THES-QS World University Ranking.
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