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Queen Mary, with over 8,000 undergraduate and
postgraduate students, is
one of the five major Colleges of the University of London
awarding
University
of London Degrees. The Department of Physics
has a national and
international reputation for
research and was ranked Grade 5 by the Higher Education Funding Council
in
the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise.
Teaching and research in physics has been going
on at
the
College for over a century, in an informal and friendly
atmosphere, with undergraduate students usually working on their
coursework
or projects in the same laboratories as academic staff and
postgraduates.
Final year projects are usually closely connected with our research. It
is this,
and the easy access to staff engaged in the frontiers of research,
which makes
our educational environment special, together with our thirty years'
experience
with modular degrees where students are encouraged to design individual
programmes of study.
The Department of Physics
comprises four research
groups: the Particle Physics Research
Centre, the Molecular and Matherial
Group, the Centre for Research in
String Theory and the Astronomy Unit.
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