Apply

You can apply to our Study Abroad programme in the following ways:

• As direct-enrol/fee-paying/free-mover student 
• As an exchange student, nominated by your home university. You should consult the Study Abroad Advisor at your home institution to see whether you have an existing partner agreement with Queen Mary University of London and to check whether there are any special application arrangements.  Please note that exchange students should not apply until they have been nominated by their home university, and received application instructions from Queen Mary University of London.
• Through a Study Abroad partner provider such as, for example, Arcadia, CEA CAPA, CIEE, IES Abroad, IFSA or Worldstrides. Please check these organisations’ application procedures, and note that we consider applications from these routes equally and on their individual merits.  Please do not apply through multiple programme providers for the same programme!

Please follow our step-by-step instructions in the Application Guidance carefully in order to submit a correct and complete application for assessment.

Please note the below application opening and closing dates:

September entry:
Applications open: 14 February
Deadline to apply: 31 May
Nomination deadline for exchange partners: 1 May

January entry:
Applications open: 7 August
Deadline to apply: 24 October 
Nomination deadline for exchange partners: 1 October

Applications may be considered after these dates if places are still available but it is in your interest to apply as early as possible, as applications are considered on a rolling basis. Late applicants may not be able to obtain housing on campus or register for their preferred modules. Please contact us if you wish to submit a late application on study-abroad@qmul.ac.uk.

Queen Mary London Internship Programme

If applying for the Queen Mary Internship Programme, please note that this programme has earlier application deadlines: 

• 1 May for September entry
• 1 October for January entry

• You must be enrolled at an overseas institution on a Bachelors level degree and have already completed a minimum of one year of university-level study.
• You must have a minimum CGPA of 3.0/4.0 or equivalent.
• If you are graded on a different grading scheme, you are still welcome to apply – we welcome a range of international qualifications.

If you are unsure about your eligibility, please contact us at study-abroad@qmul.ac.uk.

Further details can be found here on our academic information page. 

If your first language is not English or you have not studied in an English-speaking education system, we will need you to prove your English language proficiency.

This still applies to you if:

• your first language is English but you have not studied in an English-speaking education system
•  you hold a UK passport and your first language is English, but you have not studied in an English-speaking education system

All students must meet the English language requirement for Study Abroad Programmes.

We also accept a range of accepted English tests and qualifications to demonstrate your level of English Language proficiency.

Approved English language tests must have been taken within the validity date stated, which are measured against the proposed course start date.

• Our academic requirement is an overall GPA of 3.0 or above from your current academic semester.
  You will need to provide scanned copies of your original official transcript to confirm that the qualification has been awarded and satisfies our entry criteria.
  If your qualification documents are not in English you will also need to provide official certified translations. All documents provided should be colour scans, either on headed paper or with an institutional stamp.
• For fee-paying/direct-enrol applicants: your offer is conditional upon the receipt of at least one satisfactory academic reference. The reference should comment on your suitability for study, to include details of academic performance to date and potential to succeed on your chosen programme.
  Queen Mary reserves the right to make the final decision on determining if the reference is satisfactory.
• All students from countries where the native language is not English, must meet the English language requirement for Study Abroad Programmes.  We accept a range of accepted English tests and qualifications to demonstrate your level of English Language proficiency.  Accepted English language tests must have been taken within the validity date stated, which are measured against the proposed course start date.

An academic reference for study abroad is a letter written by a faculty member, a professional who has worked with you as a student or someone from your International (or equivalent) office. The reference should comment on your suitability for a study abroad programme, include details of academic performance to date and potential to succeed on your chosen programme.

Exchange students do not need to submit an academic reference.

Once you have submitted your application you will be sent your username (which is also your Queen Mary student number) and a password via an email titled 'Receipt of Application'. 

This same login information is used later in the application process for the housing application portal for those eligible.

Yes, please do start an application even if you do not yet have all your documents.

For example, if you have an English test requirement to fulfill but your exam is in a few weeks or you are waiting on a reference.

We can still give you a conditional offer based on your transcript submission fulfillment alone and this can change to an unconditional offer later once you meet all requirements.

Please contact study-abroad@qmul.ac.uk with further details and we can help resolve any errors.

We aim to process applications within 14 days of submission, however this may take longer during busy periods. 

We ask that you only reach out if you have had no progression on your application and 14 days have passed since it was submitted.

You can use the 'contact us' tile within the applicant portal to send any updates to your application. Once you send documents through this method we will be notified you have attached a new document for review.

A conditional offer means you have been accepted but still have outstanding requirements, this may be an official copy of your transcript or your English test results.

A conditional offer will be updated to unconditional once we receive and review any missing documents.

This is dependent on your circumstances. If you are studying abroad with us in semester one (September - December) and looking to extend to the full academic year, please email or visit us in the office by the end of October at the very latest to discuss further. If you are studying abroad with us in semester two (January - May/June) and looking to study another semester with us (semester one of the next academic year), this is not possible, unless you are studying with us from Australasia where the academic calendar is different. Please contact us to discuss further, as there are multiple factors to consider.

Learning Agreements should be sent to study-abroad@qmul.ac.uk for signing, please note that we only sign Learning Agreements once students have been registered on their modules. 

If you are in your final or penultimate year of a J.D. (Juris Doctor), or have the option to incorporate postgraduate legal academic study at Queen Mary University of London into your home institution’s academic programme, then you can (subject to meeting entry requirements) apply to join us for a semester in London to study postgraduate law modules from our prestigious LLM programmes. You can learn more about this programme on the ‘CCLS Associate Semester in London Programmes’ webpage.

Postgraduate Law Modules are taught in the heart of London, at our Lincoln's Inn Fields site. Module information can be found on our online module directory, filtered as ‘Level 7’ modules, under the School of Law, codes beginning with ‘SOLM’. Module information can also be found here. 
 
If you feel this programme is suitable for you, please email pglaw-global@qmul.ac.uk to discuss your eligibility before submitting an application. Note you must be a studying for a J.D. (Juris Doctor) or postgraduate law qualification to be eligible.  

If you are a student or partner university with questions about your eligibility to apply for CCLS postgraduate modules, please email: pglaw-global@qmul.ac.uk