The Queen Mary University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London. With roots dating back to the founding of the London Hospital Medical College in 1785, Queen Mary was formed by the merger of four historic colleges, and since joining the University of London in 1915 has grown to become one of its largest colleges. It is named after Mary of Teck, Queen of the United Kingdom. Queen Mary is a global university, it has 5 campuses in the heart of London and also internationally in China, Malta, and Paris.

University has a remarkably higher number of students such as 17,000 full-time students coupled with 4,000 staff added with its annual turnover of £350 million – from the heads of research grants and contracts. Queen Mary is organized into three faculties – the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Science and Engineering and Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry – within which there are 21 academic departments and institutes. Queen Mary is ranked in the top 10 for subjects including Medicine (surpassing King’s College London), with some of these ranked equal to University College London and Oxford University.