Scholarships in the Department of Physics

    The Department of Physics at Queen Mary, University of London, is offering 6 part-scholarships – 3 at Bachelor’s and 3 at Master’s level, for entry into academic year 2005/6.  Scholarships are worth £3,500-£4,000.  The full published fee is £10,500.  Successful applicants will pay £6,500-£6,950, depending on level of study.

    Those awarded a Distinction or First Class on completion of their degree at Queen Mary, will be offered a full tuition fee waiver for PhD study.

    For further information, please contact:

    Tao-Tao Chang – International Officer (East Asia)
    Email: t.t.chang@qmul.ac.uk
    Tel: +44 20 7882-3672 (Direct Line)

    Physics at Queen Mary

    The Physics Department at Queen Mary has an international reputation for research, achieving an RAE award of 5 (out of 5*) in 2001.  It has been ranked 9th in the UK by The Guardian newspaper.

    Landmarks in the Department’s research include:
    Participation in the Nobel-award observation of the W and Z bosons at CERN in Geneva
    Participation in the IRAS satellite mission that discovered protostars and ultraluminous galaxies
    Building the long-wavelength spectrometer for the Infrared Space Laboratory (ISO)
    The invention of the Martin-Puplett polarising interferometer

    Distinguished alumni and academic staff include:
    Professor Sir Peter Mansfield – Awarded Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology, 2003
    Professor Michael Green – author of the first definitive text on Superstring Theory, published by the Cambridge University Press (1988)
    Professor Peter Clegg – who led the team that built the long-wavelength spectrometer for the ISO

    For more information on Undergraduate (Bachelor’s) courses, please click on:

    For more information on Postgraduate (Master’s) courses, please click on:

    About Queen Mary

    Queen Mary, University of London, is the fourth largest College within the University of London, which includes world-renowned institutions such as LSE, UCL, Imperial College, and King’s College.  Its current student population is just over 10,000, of which approximately 20% are international students from over 100 countries.

    Queen Mary is a research-led institution – in the last Research Assessment Exercise in 2001, over 80% of its departments were judged to be producing work of international or national significance. 

　Key strengths include:
    International Commercial Law; Economics; Politics
    Medicine & Dentistry
    Engineering; Electronic Engineering; Computer Science
    Biological Sciences; Physics
    Rankings
    The latest UK University rankings published in The Guardian on 19th April 2005, placed Queen Mary 12th in the UK
    The above-named subject areas were all listed in the top 20 by The Guardian

    Further information on rankings can be found at:

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