玛丽皇后是伦敦大学联合体中规模最大的学院之一,同时也是伦敦大学联盟中唯一的校园式大学,与伦敦大学的另外三个学院:UCL, Imperial College, King’s 并列为伦敦大学联盟的四大核心学院。皇后学院是由玛丽皇后学院,Westfield学院,St Bartholomew’s医学院以及创立于1785年被誉为英格兰医学院之父的London Hospital Medical College合并成立。大学的主校园坐落于伦敦东区的Mile End, 其他3个校区皆位于伦敦东区中心地带。学校现有学生近10,000多人,包括来自100多个国家,超过1,000多人的留学生。
皇后学院现分设九个学院:文学院、工程学院、信息科学及数学学院、社会科学院、自然科学院、法学院、基础医学院、临床医学与临床牙科学院。该学院较强的专业:天文学、英语、数学、计算机科学、电子与航空工程、俄语、西班牙研究与资料,特别是法律、经济、计算机科学和工程等专业。
Queen Mary, University of London is one of London and the UK's leading research-focused higher education institutions. Amongst the largest of the colleges of the University of London with 16,000 students, Queen Mary's 3,000 staff teach and research across a wide range of subjects in Humanities, Social Sciences and Laws, in Medicine and Dentistry and in Science and Engineering.
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. Times Higher Education
Queen Mary is unique amongst London's universities in being able to offer a completely integrated residential campus, with a 2,000-bed award-winning Student Village on its Mile End site.
Queen Mary was ranked 13th in the UK in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) according to the Times Higher Education. The Guardian places Queen Mary even higher, 11th in the UK. Our staff members have been honoured by election to Fellowships of the Royal Society, the British Academy, the Royal Academy of Medical Science and the Royal Academy of Engineering. Amongst University of London multi-faculty colleges, Queen Mary was ranked fourth, 10 places ahead of King's College London, which was ranked 22nd in the country.