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Queen Margaret University

Musselburgh · Higher Education Institution

Track record

www.qmu.ac.uk

The sponsor holds Student Sponsor status with a track record of compliance — the standard standing for an established provider.

55.931, -3.073

University in Musselburgh, Scotland, UK

Principal:
Sir Paul Grice
Founded:
1875
www.qmu.ac.uk

Background from Wikidata and Wikipedia, not part of the register record. Sources and corrections →

The Home Office does not publish this sponsor’s visa refusal rate, enrolment rate or course completion rate. Those go to the sponsor in a letter; only the resulting standing reaches the register, and nothing on this page is derived from them. What a sponsor has to hit →

Published evidence

At a glance

A reading aid, not a ranking. Each measure keeps its own source and population.

Student profile
18.6%
of students are international
1,225 of 6,590 students · HESA 2024/25
Recruitment mix
47%
from the top three countries
51 countries of origin represented
Student voice
78.6%
Course quality
-5.0 points vs benchmark

These figures are not all from the same year, and no source publishes them together. students 2024/25, survey 2026. A card that looks worse than another may simply be older. Detailed cohorts, definitions, benchmarks and caveats appear in the sections below.

Home Office register record

Snapshot 7 Sept 2026
Sponsor name
Queen Margaret University
Status
Student Sponsor - Track Record
Routes
Student
Immigration compliance
No entry recorded
Town / city
Musselburgh
Additional locations
Sponsor type
Higher Education Institution (HEI)

Read directly from the Register of Licensed Student Sponsors, snapshot of 7 Sept 2026. The Home Office does not publish per-sponsor visa refusal, enrolment or completion figures.

Office for Students record

No Office for Students record. The OfS regulates English providers only — universities in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are regulated separately, as are overseas institutions holding a UK sponsor licence.

Standing over time

34 snapshots
26 Jan 2024 — 7 Sept 2026 · 34 snapshots

This provider’s standing at every register snapshot we hold, oldest to newest. Gaps mean the provider was not listed on that date.

Recorded register changes

1 recorded
17 Jun 2024TownTown changed: Edinburgh → Musselburgh(observed between 26 Jan 2024 and 17 Jun 2024)

Changes are derived by comparing register snapshots. Dates are observation dates — the change occurred at some point in the interval shown, not necessarily on the later date. Check this entry against the live Register of licensed sponsors: students, or against an archived copy in the UK Government Web Archive.