City and St George's Universities discuss powerful partnership

City, University of London is exploring the exciting opportunity of joining forces with St George’s, University of London to establish a new, multi-faculty, combined institution. This potential merger would bring together the respective strengths of both universities, creating the biggest educator of Londoners in the capital and a ‘health powerhouse’ for students and researchers.

With St George's reputation as a world-leading specialist health university and City's excellence in a range of disciplines including health, business, law, creativity, and communications, we envision a merger that will propel us to new heights and offer both students and staff exciting opportunities.

The future of human health needs targeted research, enhanced by a cross-disciplinary approach this partnership will facilitate. The combined university would contribute directly to meeting the crucial societal need for highly trained health and medical professionals, addressing the country’s future workforce challenges. This strategic partnership would place both institutions in a stronger and more resilient position, enabling us to succeed in a highly dynamic, and increasingly challenging, environment.

The proposed combination would create an institution that maintains each university’s individual history and legacy whilst establishing a new era of excellence in healthcare education and research. We will create space for innovation and ambition.

The Councils of each university will meet later this Summer to progress the proposal.

A spokesperson for City, University of London said:

“This distinctive combination would create a powerhouse for health and medical education, and for research at the frontier of practice, operating at a scale competitive with the leading research-intensive universities in London and beyond.

The combination would fuse St George’s health and medical expertise with City’s strengths in health, psychology, business, law, policy, technology, creativity and communications. We would create a unique environment to enable our graduates to be leaders in the world of work.

A spokesperson for St George’s, University of London said:

"We are impressed by the benefits that are presented by this potential merger, born of ambition for synergies in our current work, further potential when we are combined and puts both institutions in a stronger and more resilient position to face future challenges.

"Combination would bring a comprehensive health education capability across all the health professions to make a direct contribution to addressing the country’s health workforce challenges, addressing a key societal need for highly trained health and medical professionals. We are incredibly excited at what we can do together."