St George's, University of London

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History

• 1733 St George's Hospital was opened in Lanesborough House at Hyde Park Corner, moving to Tooting between 1973 and 1980. The Medical School was founded in 1834.
• 1995 the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences was established with Kingston University.

Location and transport

• Tooting, South London.
• 5 minutes from Tooting Broadway (Northern Line Zone 3) and well connected for local buses.
• About 20-25 minutes by direct tube to the City and London's major tourist attractions.

Entry standards

• For the five-year medicine degree, the entry requirements are actual/predicted grades of AAA/B at A/AS Level.
• Other course requirements range between ABB at A Level for Biomedical Science and Physiotherapy, to BBB for Midwifery and Healthcare Science, and CCC for nursing
• Entry standards are high and competition for places is tough, especially in medicine.
• This is a well-regarded institution, and students should apply as early as they can.

Student mix

• Female: 58%, Male: 42%.
• Home and EU: 96%, Overseas: 4%.
• 55% of students are of non-white ethnicity.
• In 2009–10, 84.4 per cent of school leavers joining were from state schools.
• Approximately 10 times the number of applications for Medicine courses to places available; other courses slightly less competitive.

Course flexibility

• At the end of the Biomedical Science degree, the best-performing students have the opportunity to transfer onto the third year of the MBBS5 course.
• MBBS5 students have the option to do an intercalated BSc degree in a medicine-related subject either at St George’s or, occasionally, at another UK institution.

Research standards

• Research at SGUL has a UK and international focus and aims to improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease.
• Specialist areas are biomedical sciences; cardiovascular sciences; human genetics; infection and immunity; stroke and dementia; population health (incorporating public health and epidemiology).
• Within these areas, the quality of more than 85% of staff’s research returned in the last Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in 2008 was judged to be of international standing in terms of originality, significance and rigour.
• Through a partnership with Kingston University, St George’s also has research specialisms in health and social care sciences. In the 2008 RAE, 70% of the research in nursing and midwifery was judged to be of international standing in terms of originality, significance and rigour. Of that, 15% was considered world leading.

Academic strengths

• The most recent Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) institutional audit in June 2011 expressed confidence in the management of the academic standards and learning opportunities at St George’s.
• Features of good practice included the embedded relationship between research, teaching scholarship and professional practice.

Disability services

• For information about disability services at St George's, call the disability adviser on 020 8725 0143 or visit the website.

Student facilities, including library and computing

• Over 250 workstations across five computer rooms.
• 42,000 books and multimedia materials in the library.
• The library subscribes to more than 10,000 journals, mostly electronic versions

Students' Union

• The SU has a lively social programme including balls, comedy nights, film nights, discos and a wide range of sporting and other clubs and societies.
• Students are also a member of both the NUS and the University of London Union (ULU).

Sport

• Sports societies range from climbing, gymnastics, cricket and football to cheerleading, scuba, sailing and skiing, but there are many more.
• Onsite sports centre with sports hall, three squash courts, weights and fitness rooms
• Rowing at Chiswick on the Thames, and sailing at Royal Victoria Dock
• Teams play in the British University Association of Sport (BUSA) and ULU leagues and cups and United Hospitals and National Medical Schools competitions.

Recent/prospective new builds

• New halls of residence opened in 2007.
• A £7-million halls extension will open in August 2012, adding a new block of 154 single-bed en-suite rooms, increasing total capacity to 486.
• A new larger school shop opened January 2012.
• In 2010, a new, purpose-built suite of laboratories and office space with room for 60 researchers was opened on the campus. The area includes a large general multi-user laboratory, tissue culture labs, a liquid nitrogen storage room, a cold room and freezer room, and a molecular biology lab.

Availability of part-time work

• London offers plenty of opportunities for part-time/vacation work from bars, cafes, shops to office work to the events industry.
• Some courses, however, have heavy workloads which may limit the feasibility of working alongside your course.
• Students are given the opportunity to make some extra money by working as St George’s student ambassadors. Ambassadors undertake a range of work, from giving clinical skills lessons at summer schools to assisting with university open days and events.

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