When I wrote to you last in March of this year, I was delighted to share with you that our institutional name, following our merger in August 2024, was now City St George’s, University of London, the University of business, practice and the professions. Since then, we are proud to have become one of the largest higher education destinations for London students and a key supplier of the health workforce in the capital.
Spread across three campuses in Clerkenwell, Moorgate and Tooting and led by our combined strengths, we now educate more than 27,000 students from over 170 countries. Excitingly, our current students, prospective students, alumni, partners and stakeholders have seen and experienced our new name and brand across our campuses, our website and social channels and in our advertising campaigns.
Together we’re more
The merger brings significant advantages of scale, reach, capability and resilience, ensuring the future success of our University. It offers greater opportunities that will enable our academics to have a major impact on society, not least in healthcare.
For staff, students, and alumni, City St George’s will be a yet more exciting place to work and to study. Your alumni network has increased to 175,000 alumni offering you a greater opportunity to connect and benefit from your lifelong link with your alma mater and fellow former students across 170 countries. For our external stakeholders, we will offer greater opportunity for collaboration around research, teaching, professional training, innovation, partnerships and events. Watch the new brand video showcasing a few City St George’s highlights as a result of the merger.
In the first part of the year, we were particularly delighted to celebrate City St George’s with alumni, offer holders and regional partners in no fewer than 17 destinations; Beijing, Chennai, Dubai, Hanoi, Houston, Istanbul, London, Milan, Mumbai, Nairobi, New Delhi, New York, Riyadh, Seattle, Shanghai, Toronto and Washington DC. This is testimony to the ever-increasing connectivity and reach of our alumni community and the tireless efforts of our fantastic Alumni Ambassadors, regional alumni leadership boards, volunteers and staff. Without their combined efforts, these invaluable opportunities for our alumni to come together, connect, network, discuss and debate topical issues would not be possible.
I also want to express my gratitude to all our inspirational alumni who have been supporting our current as well as prospective students – sharing your experience and insight at offer holder sessions, during careers and topical talks, as mentors, and by sharing your news and successes. Also, our student callers are once again reaching out to alumni near and far this spring as part of the Annual Fund telephone campaign in support of our current students, especially those facing financial hardship, through hardship funds and other financial aid programmes. To all our alumni who have been making a difference to our students as well as our alumni community worldwide – thank you.
Thank you for your continued dedication and support as we move forward together. We would not have progressed this far without you. I wish you a wonderful summer and should your travels take you to London – or your commute to one of our campuses – please do have a look around to re-acquaint yourself with City St George’s, University of London.
Enjoy reading this edition of Alumni News!
Yours
Anthony
Anthony Finkelstein
President, City St George’s, University of London