Queen's University Belfast

Queen's University Belfast is a public research university in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It opened in 1845 as Queen's College, Belfast, one of the Queen's Colleges in Ireland, and became an independent university in 1908. It belongs to the Russell Group of British research universities. The main campus is in south Belfast around the Lanyon Building, with medicine linked to the Royal Victoria Hospital and other city sites.

Three faculties group arts, humanities and social sciences; engineering and physical sciences; and medicine, health and life sciences. Strengths include medicine, law, engineering, food security, and electronics and computer science. The Centre for Secure Information Technologies at the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology is a major graduate research site, alongside clinical facilities in Belfast health trusts.

Enrollment is about 25,000. International students are around 20 percent, from more than 80 countries. Academic staff number in the thousands. Alumni include poet Seamus Heaney, a Nobel laureate in literature, former president of Ireland Mary McAleese, and politician David Trimble, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who studied and taught at Queen's.

Taught master's degrees (MA, MSc, LLM) and research degrees (MPhil, PhD) follow the UK mix of coursework and supervised research. The year is two semesters. Doctoral studentships come from UK research councils, the university, and Northern Ireland sources. Graduate life is south Belfast: brick streets around the campus and a short journey into the city centre.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Queen's University Belfast lists 12 graduate programs across 10 subjects: 11 master's programs and 1 doctoral program, with the widest choice in business & management, education and languages & linguistics. Queen's University Belfast holds rank 198 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.