Why choose UEL
We offer a wide range of benefits that will enhance your learning experience at UEL and will provide you with the knowledge and skills you need for a successful career.
State-of-the-art facilities
Our students enjoy access to a wide range of facilities, including UEL’s fully networked multimedia libraries, which offer 24/7 access during semesters, specialist facilities and dedicated learning spaces, modern campuses and on-site facilities including:
- on campus accommodation at our Docklands campus
- 24/7 libraries and learning centre with PC access and helpdesks
- Cafes and restaurants
- Excellent transport links to central London and beyond
- Scholarships and bursaries
New Developments
University Square Stratford (USS)
University Square, to be located in the heart of Stratford, is a unique collaboration between Birkbeck College, University of London and the University of East London. Our joint vision is to create a major new university hub which will meet the growing aspirations of local people in the heart of east London. Students will be able to study in order to reskill and upskill, and enhance their employment possibilities. USS will also be a new home for the School of Law and Social Science from 2013. Law and Criminology programmes that are currently taught at Duncan House will re-locate to USS from September 2013.
New Stratford Library
We will be opening a new library for our Stratford campus early 2013. The library will create an inspiring new building that will transform our students library and learning experiences. It will have a whole range of new services and learning spaces designed around the needs of the modern learner. At every stage of the design process, we have involved students and staff so that the new library at Stratford will become the place where every student and academic will find just what they are looking for.
Innovative research
Our staff and students engage in research and scholarship of local, national and international significance. Staff have undertaken research in the UK and abroad that has been recognised internationally in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), with 5% rated as world class. UEL is ranked 1st for research in Sociology of all modern (post 1992 universities).
Teaching and learning
Teaching and learning at UEL takes place through a wide variety of methods and styles. Programmes are lively, highly participative and interactive, encouraging you to challenge ideas, views and beliefs. This approach provides the most effective form of teaching and learning, as it caters for the many different learning styles students bring with them to university.
