Our Strategic Plan
Acting with Head, Heart and Hand: QMU’s Strategy for 2026-2031
Our strategy sets out a clear and focused direction for QMU for 2026-2031, and a coherent framework for decision-making. Taking full account of our institutional values, it protects the distinctive, supportive student experience that is central to what we stand for at QMU. Reflecting our long history of combining intellectual rigour with compassion and practical action, it encourages us to act with head, heart and hand.
Our strategy will enable us to be become known as Scotland’s most professionally focused university, recognised for our high quality, accessible education and strong career outcomes, delivered through a modern, digitally enabled, and financially sustainable operating model.
In the strategy, we are explicit about our priorities, realistic about constraints, and disciplined in our choices. Rather than trying to be everything to everyone, it sets out areas of focus in which we will concentrate our effort and investment, the distinctive value that we seek to offer to students, staff, and partners, and the capabilities and systems required to deliver this successfully and sustainably.
Our on-campus and blended provision of in-person and online teaching will remain the anchor of our institutional identity, providing a firm foundation for further growth of the QMU Online and QMU Global provision that is already intrinsic to our work and our commitment to accessible education. Through our expertise, assets, and commitment to partnership, we will generate social and economic capital and build community wealth.
Delivery of our strategy will enable us to fulfil the potential of our students and graduates and to strengthen the social and economic fabric of our local area, Scotland and the communities we serve across the world.
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