This information will be of interest to those who are planning their admission in England.
I always advise my students to go to the Open Day and feel the atmosphere, talk to the teachers, ask questions about accommodation, study features, internship opportunities, relations with UK and foreign universities, if you want to study abroad for 1 year (Study Abroad), etc., etc.
In the autumn I visited several universities, today I will tell you about Queen Mary.
The history of the university dates back to 1785, when the first medical school in England, The London Hospital Medical College, was founded, yes, it is the oldest medical school with an excellent reputation. To get a feel for the competition to get in here, you just need to stand in line for the Medical School’s presentation.
This queue twists in a zigzag pattern and gradually fills all the seats in the huge auditorium.
And translated into simple maths: in 2022, more than 2600 applications for medicine were received for 2023! The university admitted 308 British students and 24 international students!! That’s all! When I take students through the admission process, I always warn them about the level of competition.
Let’s give some more interesting facts.
Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) — it is the leading public research university in the United Kingdom, and it is part of the elite association of Russell Group universities.
Queen Mary has contributed to global research in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence, the treatment of haemophilia, cancer and heart disease. Astronomers at the university led an international team of scientists to discover a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the solar system.
Among the university’s former employees and alumni are nine Nobel laureates, including Ronald Ross, the doctor who developed a cure for malaria, and the first Briton to win a Nobel Prize. The President of Iceland, Guni Th, also worked and studied here. Johannesson; Davidson Nicol, who discovered the degradation of insulin in the human body; John Langdon Down, who first described Down syndrome; Professor Andrew Pollard is the principal researcher into the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
Queen Mary offers more than 240 bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs across three academic faculties: Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and Engineering, and Medicine and Dentistry.
Popular majors include law, medicine, engineering, and business.
