Queen's University of Belfast

Queen's University, Belfast (QUB) - or officially Queen's University of Belfast - is a university in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The university was originally part of the Queen's University of Ireland created to encourage higher education for Catholics as a counterpart to the Protestant Trinity College, Dublin. The university offers academic degrees at various levels and across several faculties including those in dentistry, engineering, humanities, law and medicine.

Famous alumni include Lord Kelvin, whose statue stands at the entrance to the Botanic Gardens next to the university; David Trimble, former First Minister of Northern Ireland and Nobel Prize winner; Mary McAleese, the current President of Ireland; and the Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney.

Colleges

In addition to the main campus in the centre of Belfast, the university has two associated university colleges, these being St Mary's and Stranmillis both also located in Belfast. Although offering a range of degree courses, these colleges primarily provide training for those wishing to enter the teaching profession.

The university also has formal agreements with other colleges in Northern Ireland and operates several outreach schemes to rural areas, the most successful of which is the university's Armagh Campus.

The Lanyon Building designed by the Belfast architect Sir Charles Lanyon

History

The university has its roots in the Belfast Academical Institution, founded in 1810, whilst the university was established as a college in 1945 as the Queen's College, Belfast when it was associated with what was then Queen's College, Cork and Queen's College, Galway as part of Queen's University of Ireland (1850) and later Royal University of Ireland (1880). The Irish Universities Act, 1908 dissolved the Royal University of Ireland and created two separate universities - the current National University of Ireland and Queen's University of Belfast.

See also

• Education in Northern Ireland
• List of universities in Ireland
• List of universities in the United Kingdom
  • List of universities in Northern Ireland

External links

• Queen's University, Belfast (http://www.qub.ac.uk)
• Queen's University, Belfast - A History (http://www.qub.ac.uk/home/TheUniversity/AboutQueens/HistoryofQueens/)
• Armagh Campus, Queen's University, Belfast (http://www.armagh.qub.ac.uk/)