Mile End

Birkbeck University of London is located in Bloomsbury and was originally established back in 1823. It’s a well-respected university that tends to rank well and is known for its Birkbeck Institute for the humanities, science, research, history, psychology, computer science and physics.

City, University of London is located in the heart of the capital and was originally founded in 1894 as the Northampton Institute. The modern university is known for the City Law School, the School of Community & Health Sciences and related fields.

Imperial College London was created by Prince Albert and merged the Royal College of Science, Royal School of Mines and City and Guilds College into one. The current college has a narrow focus on science, technology, medicine and business and is highly regarded across the world for those subjects.

King's College London is a long-established university with links to St Thomas’s Hospital in the centre of the city. It has five campuses: Strand, Guy’s, Waterloo, St Thomas’s and Denmark Hill. It is known for dentistry, oral and craniofacial sciences, life sciences, medicine, psychiatry and related fields.

London Metropolitan University, or London Met as it’s known, is a centrally located university with a great reputation. It includes the Guildhall School of Business and Law, School of Computing and Digital Media, School of Human Sciences, School of Social Professions, School of Social Sciences and the School of Art, Architecture and Design.

The London School of Economics is one of the most popular universities in London where all courses are massively oversubscribed. The university is well known for anthropology, criminology, social psychology, sociology and social policy, international relations and business-related courses.

Queen Mary University (QMUL) is an ancient establishment founded in 1785. It is based in east and central London with campuses across that area. The university is known for research, medicine, languages, English literature, dentistry, drama and materials technology.

The School of Oriental and African Studies is based in Bloomsbury, London, and is a world-leading institution for the study of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The university is known for teaching Asian, African and Middle Eastern languages, Arabic & Islamic Studies, Oriental Studies, law and social sciences.

University College London is the second largest university in the UK after the Open University. It was also Britain’s first secular university. It is known mainly for medicine, geography, education and training, anatomy and physiology, architecture, archaeology, psychology and pharmacology.

The University of the Arts London is made up of several colleges in London and only became a university in 2003. It includes the Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts.

Mile End is an East End area of London. It’s a great place to spend your student years and offers a huge range of influences, cultures, languages and outlooks. It’s a very diverse area and is all the better for it.

Mile End is along the A11 east of the City. It’s a mainly residential area that features Queen Mary University of London, Stepney Green Maths, Computing & Science College, New City College, Attlee A Level Academy, Global Banking School London Campus Olympic Park, Mile End Hospital and BMI The London Independent Hospital.

There are also wide areas of green spaces that make Mile End a nice place to live in. There are more parks and open areas here than most other areas of the capital.

There are also hundreds of shops, bars, restaurants, pubs, cafés and lots to see and do.

Our accommodation in Mile End for students is in the heart of it all!

Mile End is a largely residential area that has plenty of buses and tube stations. It’s well connected by road too and as it’s on the outskirts of the city, getting around by car isn’t too bad.

Mile End is just a 15-minute tube ride from Oxford Street and city highlights. Local stations include Mile End Station, Bow Road, Stepney Green and Bethnal Green.

 Stratford Rail station is a short tube or bus ride east while Liverpool Street Station is a short ride west.

Buses are everywhere, with some services running 24 hours a day while others run at peak times.

Our student housing in Mile End is less than a minute’s walk from Mile End tube station.

Mile End is an affordable part of London to live in but doesn’t require compromise to stay here.


It’s a largely working area with lots of small industries and a variety of businesses providing a genuine glimpse of the East End.

There are lots of independent shops, chain stores, pubs, bars, restaurants, cafés and places to spend time in and socialise.

There’s also the Mile End Floating Market, which is a big draw as well as a great place to spend some money.

While Queen Mary University of London is the closest university to Mile End, you’ll meet students from all over, thanks to great tube and bus links.

Mile End has a lot going on and has great transport links to the rest of the city. While there are definite local amenities, many more are available within London.

Highlights of Mile End include Mile End Park Leisure Centre and Stadium, Mile End Park, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, Meath Gardens, Victoria Park, West Ham United Stadium, Four Corners Gallery, Mile End Floating Market, the Nunnery Gallery, Shoreditch, Brick Lane, Hoxton, Spitalfields, Westfield Stratford City, the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History, Chisenhale Gallery and Museum of London Docklands.

The rest of the city opens up as soon as you get a bus or tube and head south or west.

As our accommodation in Mile End for students is less than a minute’s walk from the tube station, that means you’re never far from the action!

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