History
Founded in 1845 as Queen's College Belfast, one of three
Queen's Universities in Ireland in europe.
Became an separate university in 1908, and is the 9th
earliest university in the UK.
Member of the Russell Team.
In the top 1% of worldwide colleges and universities.
The UK-wide 2014 Analysis Quality Structure work out placed
Queen’s 8th in the UK for Analysis Strength.
Awarded a 6th Queen's Birthday Award in Feb 2016 in
identification of the university's function in defending the on the internet
action of enormous amounts of web customers around the globe through the task
of employees in its Center for Protected Information Technological advancement,
one of Europe’s biggest university online protection research centers. Previous
Queen's Birthday Awards have been granted for world-class accomplishment in
melanoma research through its control over the North Ireland in europe
Extensive Cancer Solutions program, which has seen melanoma success prices in
North Ireland in europe move from the bottom of the UK group table to the top,
and in natural chemical make up, law, environmental research and palaeoecology.
Queen’s was one of the first colleges and universities in
the UK and Ireland in europe to form spin-out organizations, developing QUBIS
Ltd twenty six years ago to build a fortune through the commercialisation of
research and advancement. QUBIS has been involved in the development of 70
organizations. It remains one of the top organizations in the UK and Ireland in
europe championing the impact agenda through the development of tasks and
prosperity. Spin-out organizations designed at Queen’s currently have an yearly
revenues of over £170m and maintain 1,500 high-value tasks.
As one of the UK’s significant Information Exchange
Collaboration (KTP) Universities, Queen’s has helped more than 350
organizations increase their services and products, dealing with organizations
across all areas, ranging from multi-nationals to very small firms. Queen’s and
Bullivant Taranto Ltd were named as the UK’s Best KTP in 2013’s nationwide KTP
Awards.
Queen’s is one of the top organizations in the UK for
dealing with the imbalanced representation of women in technology and
technological advancement, as demonstrated by its success in the Athena SWAN
awards, which acknowledge the commitment of organizations, and technology,
technological advancement and technological advancement (SET) departments, to
dealing with sex inequalities and improving profession development for women
instructors. Queen's hold 10 Athena SWAN retail Awards, such as two Gold, as
well as an institutional Silver Award.
Location
and Transport
A 15-minute walk from the town centre, the university’s green
university gives its name to the attractive Queen’s Quarter, situated between
fashionable of nearby Botanic Opportunity and the beautiful Botanic Gardens and
Ulster Art gallery.
Modern transportation facilities. All significant UK places
within an hour's flying time.
Daily flight tickets to UK and worldwide destinations from
the Henry Best Belfast City International airport and the Belfast International
International airport.
Regular boat services to Scotland and England.
Entry
Requirements
A extensive variety of different credentials is accepted by
the school and more information of access specifications and selection criteria
are offered in the university’s online course finder.
There is no cap or limit on the quantity of UK or worldwide
learners which the school is permitted to admit (except in Medication, Dental
care, Nursing and Midwifery, and Public Work).
In regards to A stages, provide qualities generally variety
from BBB at A stage to AAA at A-level + A in a 4th AS stage topic. Only Dental
care and Medication require a 4th AS stage topic in addition to 3 A stages.
An A* grade is not a requirement for any of our stage
programs. However, it may be specified as aspect of an alternative provide and
we also use differential provides for some extent programs, based on whether or
not candidates are taking a preferred A stage, i.e. one that provides a better
preparation for the stage program.
At present the school does not make unconditional provides
to any of our candidates, who have not yet finished the credentials required
for entrance, but this is kept under review.
The university understands that credentials change across
the UK, which will be introduced on a phased foundation, will outcome in
candidates introducing with different certification information from 2017
access. Furthermore, we appreciate that the possibilities available to
candidates will often be dependent on school/college policy.
Queen’s has extensive information about acknowledging
learners with an extensive variety of credentials, many of which are straight
line in nature. Based upon on this, we would like to give confidence that we
will keep sure all candidates are treated fairly and are not deprived by the
changes and choices made by schools/colleges, as appropriate to their
individual circumstances.
Further information can be found on our web page, which will
be updated regularly as more information become available.
Student
Mix
The 23,855 learners registered in the educational year
2014/15 comprise:
Level of study
Undergraduate 79% Postgraduate
21%
Mode of study
Full Time 74% Part
Time 26%
Domicile
UK 89% EU 4% Other 7%
Student gender
Male 44% Female 56%
Course
Flexibility
Modular system: possibilities for school student choice
within programs centered on need for properly targeted and consistent programs
of research.
Flexibility varies across topics according to specifications
of accrediting bodies and nationwide topic standard statements, where
applicable.
Queen's provides an extensive variety of possibilities for
learners to develop and increase their educational, individual and
employability abilities.
Queen’s holds company and provides a powerful program
attuned to the needs of learners and companies. As a outcome, abilities growth
is included in all Queen’s educational programs to enhance college student
employability.
The strategy taken to back up employability is shaped by the
topic, but key elements consist of practical possibilities to back up abilities
growth, possibilities for perform relevant studying, engagement with companies
and/or graduate students and classes targeted on growth and growth of
profession control techniques.
Teaching
Standards
Queen’s has an excellent record of accomplishment in reviews
of educating high quality, with numerous educating awards. Close to 500
employees are guys of the Higher Education and learning Academia.
Queen’s is significantly investing in trainees encounter, a
fact shown in great prices of school student fulfillment, finalization and
graduate student profession amongst both the undergrad and postgrad
communities.
Support for learners has been enhanced by individual
training and peer guidance techniques. An graduate students guidance scheme is
also offered, with high-achieving graduate students spending one-to-one time
with undergraduates and passing on the benefits of their encounter and data.
Students have possibilities to analyze overseas, enhance
employability and increasing figures participate in perform relevant
possibilities as aspect of their levels.
We cooperate with companies to make sure our program
provides our learners for their new professions. These consist of new company
partnership levels recognized with key organizations across a variety of areas,
developing research, positioning and a graduate student job on finalization.
Research
Standards
Queen’s has recognized itself in the leading number of UK
research-intensive colleges and universities and is a part of the Russell Team.
The UK-wide 2014 Analysis Quality Structure work out placed Queen’s 8th in the
UK for Analysis Strength.
Over 75% of research action at Queen’s was assessed to be
worldwide excellent or world-leading. 26 of the 28 topic matter presented to
REF 2014 were rated in the UK top 20 for research intensity, with 6 of these in
the top 10, and 2 in the top 5.
Queen’s came back over 95% of educational employees, which
was the 5th biggest percentage of employees came back in the REF 2014.
Queen's is the main thing on research worldwide in places as
diverse as Green Chemistry, Protected Information Technological advancement,
Meals Security, Collaborative Analysis in the Humanities, Issue Modification,
Wellness Sciences and Astrophysics.
Research relationships with significant research groups and
multi-national organizations throughout the globe, such as Dubai Healthcare
City, the National Cancer Center, Georgetown University and Vanderbilt
University in the USA; Petronas in Malaysia; InfoSys and Madras Christian
College in Chennai, and the Indian Institution of Technology, Delhi in India;
China Healthcare University and Harbin Institution of Technology.
Spin-out organizations designed at Queen’s currently have an
yearly revenues of over £170m and maintain 1,500 high-value tasks.
Academic
Strengths
Research-oriented environment; educating by people operating
at leading side of professions.
The university also has 14 topic matter rated within the top
20 in the UK and 76% of its research classified in the top two categories of
globe significant and worldwide excellent (REF 2014).
To make sure its worldwide standing is growing and that its
learners are trained by those at the innovative of their field, the school has
been actively hiring the world’s top founders and creators, such as the
appointment of educational control across all aspects.
Queen’s is rated no.1 in the UK for its contribution in
Information Exchange Partnerships with over 40 active tasks across the
University, more than any other UK institution.
Undergraduate
Courses
Type of
Qualification:
All
Undergraduate (228)
First Degree (222)
Foundation Degree (3)
LLB (4)
Other Undergraduate (3)
Mode of
study:
Full-time (161)
Full-time eventually overseas (23)
Part-time (2)
Sandwich (42)
Browse all undergrad courses
Student
Facilities
In the National Student Study 2015, learners indicated
extremely great stages of fulfillment (93%) with Learning Sources at Queen’s
(i.e. Collection and IT).
Queen’s award-winning McClay Collection provides over 2,000
reader places and housing for 1.5m amounts. The library has achieved Client
Solutions Quality, an separate certification of the standard and standard of
its customer support, and provides the finest high quality services to learners.
The McClay Library’s excellent design, features and services
have been recognized with a Society of College, National and University
Collections (SCONUL) Award, presented every several decades to a UK library
that best meets the needs of customers.
Queen's is the main thing on using ICT to back up studying
and educating. The university's virtual studying atmosphere, Queen's Online,
provides each college student with secure on the internet having accessibility
to information and materials relating to their specific course components
enhancing the chance to learn.
As a consequence of the £1.93m wi-fi university project,
learners can easily use our latest-technology wi-fi support throughout the
school and across the largest variety of cellular phones.
Disability
Services
There are currently 1,959 learners with a variety of
neurological, flexibility, studying, mental health insurance coverage other
problems registered with Impairment Solutions.
Students can accessibility a variety of assistance based on
their individual needs.
Disability Solutions also provides a DSA Needs Evaluation
Center and a register of Support Providers for learners who are recommended
non-medical assistance.
Further information regarding disability services at Queen's
is available by telephoning +44 (0) 2890 975251, by mailing
disability.office@qub.ac.uk or by visiting our web page.
Students'
Union
The Students’ Collaboration is an exciting hub for trainees
body system. In the 2015 National Student Study, Queen's Kids' Collaboration was
rated Twelfth amongst colleges and universities in the UK in regards to school
student fulfillment with an 81% fulfillment rate.
The Students’ Collaboration provides an extensive variety of
social features along with a variety of chill-out places and a person kitchen,
meeting rooms for groups and cultures, and several of bars and locations
providing a wide program of entertainment. The Students’ Collaboration is also
house to a variety of retail units which contains the SU Shop, Blackwell’s
Books, Clements Coffee House, SRL Electrics (electrical goods and pc repairs),
a hair stylists, and Santander Bank.
The Students’ Collaboration is the representative body
system of learners and provides a variety of developing possibilities,
essential to students’ employability abilities. For example college student
business through company start-up assistance, as well as organized programs,
yearly contests, having accessibility to 100 % free company incubation area and
the Student Leadership Programme (Inspiring Leaders).The Students’
Collaboration Guidance Center provides 100 % free, separate and private advice
to Queen’s learners on an extensive variety of issues.There are possibilities
to join over 200 Clubs and Societies at Queen’s and an extensive variety of
provide possibilities, such as dealing with over 250 volunteer-involving
organizations. Volunteer SU also runs the successful Preparation Clubs effort
to back up the neighborhood, as well as the Volunteer Excellency Awards.
Availability
of Part-Time Work
Part-time, temporary and holiday perform on-campus, is
available through the Queen’s Oncampus Jobshop (part of Careers, Employability
and Skills).
A extensive variety of expertise, summer months internships
and other holiday possibilities are available to learners through MyFuture and
all learners get every week signals of new possibilities. The new MyFuture
professions system is utilized at www.qub.ac.uk/myfuture
As aspect of its revolutionary way of ensuring its graduate
students have the advantage in the job market, Queen’s also provides a unique
Degree Plus program officially identifying abilities acquired during additional
curricular perform. Students get the award alongside their stage on graduating.
Enterprise SU, within the Students’ Collaboration,
encourages possibilities for additional curricular perform.
Careers
Guidance
Careers assistance is delivered impartially and in complete
confidence by professionally qualified employees through one-to-one discussions
as face-to-face sessions, bookable on the professions system Myfuture or remote
accessibility via e-guidance and pre-arranged skype discussions.
A Careers Zone is available at all graduate student,
positioning and specialist exhibitions and contains professions professionals
and data employees providing one-to-one assistance, sign-posting and
employability growth resources.
Careers education and assistance emerged both: on the stage
program through consultants’ designed delivery of classes, demonstrations,
updates and collaborative action with educational colleagues;centrally through
professions programs (including Workplace Study Tours), classes, company
demonstrations and networking action with graduate students.
Extra curricular employability enhancement is approved
through the Degree Plus Award.
94% of Queen’ graduate students are in profession or further
research six months after graduating.
Recent/Prospective
New Builds
Transformation of the Queen’s property through an important
capital financial commitment program is continuing. Key tasks designed in in
recent decades consist of the award-winning McClay Library; the Center for
Cancer Analysis and Cell Biology; a new house for the Queen's University
Management School and the Bill J. Clinton Leadership Institute; new sports
features and the redevelopment of trainees individual Elms Town.
Major
tasks designed in 2015 include:
The Graduate School – a new perceptive hub in the
University’s ancient Ruby Developing, assisting the colourful postgrad and
postdoctoral culture across the University and the significant increases in
postgrad trained, postgrad research and postdoctoral numbers;
The Wellcome Wolfson Developing – Center for Trial Medication,
an important new section of the developing Institution of Wellness Sciences.
The Institution is hiring the world’s best thinkers, founders, researchers and
physicians to Queen’s - eventually this will see over 1,000 significant
researchers and physicians cooperating on one site;
The last stage of the renovation of the Ashby building
recognizing the university’s vision to make an Engineering complex providing
educating, research and assistance housing to rival that of the most famous
organizations around the globe.
The present program of purchase of the property – a further
£350m over the next decade – contains several of tasks that are due for
finalization in summer months 2016. These include:
A significant redevelopment in the quadrangle which is due
for finalization in summer months 2016 and will give a famous new house for the
School of Law and a Student Hub at the heart of the ancient campus;
A new building for Computer Science which will build a
high-quality clear building, developing both educating and research, and
providing a exciting atmosphere for employees and learners. This is an
institutional priority for the school and is carefully arranged with the main
concerns set out in the present North Ireland in europe Programme for
Government;
The Arithmetic and Science Teaching Center which is stage 2
of the three stage growth program for the School of Arithmetic and Science due
for last finalization in summer months 2017.
Other significant tasks at construction stage include:
A new educating and research building for the School of
Biological Sciences, such as the Institution for Global Meals Security. The
IGFS is a globe leader in nationwide and worldwide efforts to give the world’s
growing population with a maintainable safe supply excellent food.
The university is currently progressing an important
expansion in its college student individual supply which will provide an
additional 1200 learners by 2018.
Notable
Alumni
Queen’s has over 160,000 graduate students, spread across
the globe. Keeping their contact with the school – and with each other – is all
aspect of maintaining an ongoing relationship.
Many of the university’s graduate students are significant
figures operating, industry, universities, state policies, the arts and the
media, not just in North Ireland in europe, but also around the globe.
They
include:
Lord Bob Trimble – Nobel Laureate
Dr Jane McAleese – former President of Ireland
Stephen Rea – Oscar-nominated actor
Annie Mac – BBC Stereo 1 presenter
Bill Neely – Primary Global Reporter for NBC News
Air Commodore Bob Case – RAF
Mike Brown – MD London Underground
Christine Browne – CEO of Popular Aircraft for TUI Travel
Brian Conlon – CEO First Types plc
Manus Cranny – Western markets manager Bloomberg TV
Lord Mark Mawhinney – former Chair of the Traditional Party
Patrick Kielty – TV presenter/comedian
Alan Green – Stereo 5 Live broadcaster
Andrea Begley – winner of The Voice (BBC1)
Karen Hassan – celebrity (The Fall & Hollyoaks)
Dr Eileen McKay – Western Space Agency
Mark Gillan – former Primary Functions Engineer, Williams F1
Lord Mark Kerr – Justice of UK Supreme Court
Professor John Muldoon – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
Further
Details
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University Road Belfast North Ireland in europe BT7 1NN
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