Queen Margaret

Queen Margaret University Drive

http://www.qmu.ac.uk/

Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh is committed to providing thoroughly relevant teaching and research. Our research is focused on making a real practical impact on everyday life, and our courses are designed to produce well prepared, well rounded and flexible graduates. We have widely recognised expertise in the areas of health and rehabilitation; sustainable business and creativity and culture.

The new campus opened in Autumn 2007 and is a vibrant new academic village with high-tech buildings and attractive landscaped spaces, featuring an innovative learning resource centre at the heart of the development.

The new campus includes student residences, a student union building, indoor sports facilities and all weather surfaces, a variety of catering outlets, a shop and landscaped gardens with a range of environmental features. The design takes full account of the needs of today’s students. Current students have been consulted throughout the relocation project, from involvement in the choice of site and input into the design of buildings, to decisions on the types of catering facilities on campus. There is appropriate disabled access to residences and academic buildings.

You will find the new campus conveniently situated for leisure and shopping facilities. Musselburgh, an attractive seaside town on the eastern edge of Edinburgh, is a short walk away, and offers an appealing mix of shops, cafés, bars and leisure facilities, including a theatre and the famous racecourse. The Fort Kinnaird shopping complex is also within walking distance, and includes an extensive range of retail outlets, plus a multi-screen cinema and bowling alley.

Why study at QMU?

There are lots of reasons to study at Queen Margaret University – from our friendly and supportive staff, to our new purpose-built campus with sports facilities and our Learning Resource Centre which hosts a range of excellent facilities to help your learning. And we have a 92% graduate employment rate which shows that our graduates have the skills and knowledge that employers value. Our recent graduates can tell you for themselves why they chose QMU. What’s more, we have recently been ranked 1st in the UK for Overall Living Experience, and 1st in the UK and worldwide for Overall Student Support, by EU and international students participating in the autumn 2010 wave of the Student and International Student Barometer, an independent sector-wide survey.

The QMU learning experience aims to help you become:

• CONFIDENT AND SELF-RELIANT, with the academic, professional and personal skills for successful personal and career development
• CREATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVERS who can bring together skills of enquiry, research evidence, and critical analysis to investigate problems and propose solutions
• POSITIVE CONTRIBUTORS to building a just and sustainable society
• ADEPT AT USING MANY SOURCES OF INFORMATION to sift, create and share knowledge
• PROFESSIONAL AND ETHICAL EMPLOYEES with an understanding of how other fields relate to and work with your own
• LIFELONG LEARNERS who can reflect and build on your experiences to achieve success.