St George's, University of London

St George's, University of London takes great pride in its distinctiveness as a health sciences university. As it is co-located with St George's Hospital in South West London, students can walk the corridors from clinical teaching room to laboratory to hospital ward or clinic. The Hospital is one of the UK's busiest, and serves a community of over one million people in the capital; a community that is nationally representative and relevant to the learning of medicine and biological sciences in their broadest sense. St George's combines self-reliance with valuable partnerships across the university and health sectors, and inspires continuing pride, commitment and loyalty in students past and present.

Why St George's? As well as sharing our campus with St George's Hospital, our close neighbours are the South West London and St George's Mental Health Trusts. Together, these NHS trusts form the hub of an extensive network of acute hospital trusts, primary care trusts and social services that is referred to as the South West London Academic Health Sciences Network. This rich blend of supportive learning environments and local clinical experience sets St George's, University of London still further apart.

Why St George's for you? St George's offers a combination of research-focused and vocationally-oriented postgraduate courses. If you are aiming for a research career, all our MRes programmes provide opportunities to work alongside established research teams and internationally recognized experts in areas such as infectious diseases, cardiovascular science, neuroscience and genetics. If you are already established in a health services career, we offer postgraduate certificate, diploma and MSc courses designed to support your clinical work and develop your research skills.

Professor Peter Kopelman
Principal

Results

In the recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE2008), over 85 percent of our researchers were judged to be internationally excellent or recognized internationally in terms of originality, significance and rigour (2* and 3*).

Research

St George's offers a wide range of opportunities for translational research, including laboratory-based investigations, clinical studies and health service evaluations. These are supported by the close integration of academic and clinical staff on the St George's site, and by a wide network of collaborating trusts and academic partners in South West London.

This research-led institution achieved strong ratings in the latest Research Assessment Exercise (RAE2008). Over 40 per cent of our research is classified as internationally excellent or world-leading (3* and 4*).

We receive research grants from:

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
British Heart Foundation
European Community
Gates Foundation
Industrial sponsors
Medical Research Council
National Institute for Health Research
Pharmaceutical companies
Wellcome Trust.

Currently 150 MPhil/PhD students and 70 MD(Res) students attend our full-time and part-time programmes. Alongside subject-specific training, a wide-ranging research competencies course for research students facilitates the acquisition of generic research skills and provides opportunities for peer-group support.

Partnerships

Students also benefit from our reputation within the NHS for producing excellent healthcare professionals. On our main campus we share a site with St George's Healthcare NHS Trust, one of the UK's busiest hospitals.

We are also very committed to our collaborations with other higher-education institutions, especially our long-term partner Kingston University, and, more recently, Royal Holloway, University of London, the combined strengths of whom help us to deliver the highest standards of healthcare in the UK.

Subjects offered

Whatever point you have reached on your chosen career path, our taught courses and research degrees are designed to help you move forward, providing excellent opportunities for integrated work with clinical and laboratory researchers.

George's welcomes research students wishing to study for MPhil, PhD or MD (Res) degrees

For more details about our Postgraduate courses click here

Resources

At St George's, the expertise and support of some of the finest healthcare teaching professionals and biomedical scientists will be at your disposal from day one. Your progress will owe much to some extraordinary on-site resources.

Graduate School -
Postgraduate study at St George's takes place within the framework of a Graduate School which provides a focus for organization, administration and support.

The Head of the Graduate School works closely with two deputies who oversee all our taught postgraduate courses and research degrees. The School encompasses the graduate section of the Registry and collaborates with the St George's Postgraduate Society to enhance the training and pastoral care of every postgraduate student.

Clinical opportunities -
There is no substitute for working at the sharp end of clinical practice. And as we share our site with one of the UK's busiest hospitals, you won't have far to go.

IT facilities -
Of our three IT suites, two house over 100 workstations. One of these can be used overnight and to accommodate open-access or formal group-teaching sessions. Elsewhere on campus, there are numerous wireless hotspots.

Network software applications on campus include Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SPSS, and Internet and email access are readily available. If you need it, IT support is on tap, and the library runs excellent training courses.

Library facilities -
Our library gives you access to extensive print collections and thousands of electronic journals and databases to help you select the best information for your studies.

It also offers silent study space, social learning space, group discussion rooms and computing facilities. Our library staff will teach you how to make the most of our excellent resources, whether you choose to study on-site or off. For full details please go see our Library page

Library opening hours are generous, and it makes a great place to study.
It is also conveniently located near the IT suites, the teaching rooms and our state-of-the-art lecture theatres.

Additional services -
The Academic Services Department offers a range of supplementary services; printing, photocopying, photography, imaging, graphic design, video and multimedia production and AV support among them.

Extra-curricular facilities
There's a dance studio, a music rooms, a games room, and a rich cultural life to take part in. Our sports centre houses a gym, sports hall and squash courts, and is available to students at heavily subsidised rates.

From teams that play for fun to those that compete at the highest levels, we have every angle covered, including rugby, netball, football, lacrosse, surfing and wakeboarding.

For more information about our resources and facilities please click here

Central location

Few other capital cities anywhere in the world boast such a vibrant, cosmopolitan melting pot of different cultures. Fewer still can compare with London's tremendous diversity of world-renowned historical and cultural attractions, its famous shopping centre's or its wealth of leisure and sporting facilities. It is also, of course, a globally strategic hub of finance, business and politics.

Listed as one of Time Out London's 'hot neighbourhoods' of 2008, Tooting is a culturally vibrant place with an exciting, diverse and mixed background of people and cultures. This diversity is reflected in the shops, restaurants and wide range of local facilities you'll find right on your doorstep.

Hop on the Tube at Tooting Broadway and it's a mere 20 minutes to the centre of London, so whether it's shopping in Covent Garden, seeing the latest exhibition at the National Gallery or Tate Modern, or catching a West End musical, the capital is your oyster.

For more information on Tooting life click here

Fees

Information of fees can be found at www.sgul.ac.uk/postgraduate

Contact

Enquiries Office
+44 (0)20 8725 2333
St George's, University of London
Cranmer Terrace
London
SW17 0RE

Courses at St George's, University of London

More courses from St George's, University of London

Main navigation

St George's, University of London