How to Get in Touch With QMU or Visit Before Applying

Queen Margaret University (QMU) runs open days and other "meet us" opportunities several times across the year, and the main way to start a conversation is through the course-finding tool on its website. If you are weighing up an application, the practical route is: find your course first, then use the university's visit and contact options to check the details that matter to you — teaching style, entry requirements, and campus life. The sections below cover what the site offers and how to use it.

Start with the course finder, not the contact form

QMU's homepage centres on a tool headed "Your Journey Starts Here: Find a Course...". It splits into two levels:

• Undergraduate — subject areas include Business (with International Hospitality, Tourism and Events Management), Nursing, Drama and Performing Arts, Education, Film, Communication and Design, Health Sciences, and Psychology and Sociology.
• Postgraduate — subject areas include Advancing Professional Practice Framework, Arts, Culture and the Creative Industries, Business, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dietetics, Education, the Institute for Global Health and Development, Media, Communications and Public Relations, and Occupational Therapy.

Picking a subject area here is the fastest way to reach the course page that carries the detail you actually need. Once you have a course in mind, you have something specific to ask about when you contact the university or attend an event — which makes both far more useful.

Ways to meet QMU before you apply

The site states plainly: "We have several opportunities for you to meet us throughout the year to find out about our courses." That is the umbrella for open days and other visit formats. Two things are worth noting from the site's own listings:

• Open days and other ways to meet us is a standing section, so it is the page to check for current dates rather than relying on a single annual event.
• QMU Community Forum (Online) appears among the university's events — an online format, which suits prospective students who cannot travel to Edinburgh.

The site also flags a January 2027 start for a number of postgraduate courses. If you are targeting that intake, it is worth checking visit dates against it, since the application timeline differs from a September start.

What to look at on the site before you make contact

You will get more out of an open day or an email if you have already read around the course. The site organises this into:

Two of these are easy to overlook but often decisive. Student stories gives you a sense of the teaching culture in students' own words — useful when you are comparing universities that look similar on paper. QMU Online matters if you need flexible, on-demand postgraduate study and cannot relocate; the site describes these as 100% online master's courses available wherever you live.

What QMU says about its teaching approach

The university describes itself as "professionally focused" and "distinctive in our supportive and career-focused approach to education and teaching," adding that "you are much more than a student number." Its motto is to act with "head, heart, and hand," and it frames its work around "professionally focused, accessible education, applied research and innovation."

This is the university's own positioning, so treat it as a claim to test rather than a settled fact. The way to test it is concrete: ask about placement or professional practice components on your specific course, and ask current students in your subject area how much contact time and individual support they actually get. The QMUEmpower package — described as services supporting you during and after study — and the student services list (careers, counselling, the Effective Learning Service, and the Disability Service) are the specific things to ask about if support is a deciding factor for you.

A practical sequence

1. Use Find a Course to narrow to one or two programmes at the right level.
2. Read the course page and the relevant school or division page.
3. Check Open days and other ways to meet us for a date that works, or look for an online option such as the Community Forum.
4. Before attending, write down two or three questions that the website does not answer — typically entry requirements for your background, placement arrangements, and funding.
5. If no event fits, the site's contact and enquiry routes are the fallback; having a specific course in hand makes the reply more useful.

One caveat: the site does not publish contact phone numbers, email addresses, or event dates in the material available here. Check the relevant pages directly for current details rather than assuming a fixed schedule.