International University Partnerships

Queen Mary's vision is to be an institution that engages in teaching and research which is internationally recognised and valued, building partnerships overseas.
Part of Queen Mary, University of London’s Mission, read the full Mission

The nature of today’s business environment makes building strong international partnerships especially relevant to the School of Business and Management. Whether the focus is on ethics, globalisation, equality or communications, business today raises questions that range across and beyond economics, politics, culture and science, and across borders and continents. These questions require new, post-disciplinary responses that go beyond the traditional confines of the Business School. Consequently the school's research centres, which epitomize this post-disciplinary approach, lead the efforts to forge international partnerships.

In all our international partnerships we maintain principles of ethical engagement and mutual cooperation. The School is among one hundred signatories worldwide to the United Nations Global Compact Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME), a UN-backed initiative that promotes corporate responsibility and sustainability in business education. For more information, see www.unprme.org/

Research-based partnerships

The School has formed strong research-based partnerships with prestigious universities around the world. These involve joint interdisciplinary research, conference, and publication activity around issues raised by the relationship of business to society, including environmental sustainability, corporate accountability, transparency, and compliance, fair trade, new intellectual property rights, and migrant and labour rights.

The School has also developed partnerships in co-operative teaching, curriculum development, scholar and student exchanges, hosting visiting fellows, and joint PhD supervisions.

Current International University partners include:
Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia), Georgetown University (USA) Universiti Sains Malaysia (Malaysia), Russian State University for the Humanities (Russia), Xiamen University (China) and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (India).

The School is currently developing new International University partnerships with:
Duke University (USA), University of Massachusetts at Boston (USA), University of Economics at Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Istanbul Bilgi University (Turkey) and Anna University (India).

Erasmus Lifelong Learning Programme

Erasmus is the European Union's flagship educational exchange programme for Higher Education students, teachers and institutions. It was introduced with the aim of increasing student mobility within Europe. Erasmus forms part of the EU Lifelong Learning Programme (2007-2013).

For students

The School encourages undergraduate students to participate in Erasmus. To find out the opportunities for student mobility at the undergraduate level, please see http://www.busman.qmul.ac.uk/undergraduate/erasmusoutgoing/index.html.

For teaching staff

The School also provides opportunities for academic staff members to participate in Erasmus. For further information, please see http://www.busman.qmul.ac.uk/globalpartnerships/staffmobility/ .