Queen’s Belfast University

Queen’s University Belfast, located in Northern Ireland, with a distinguished heritage and history was founded in 1845 as Queen’s College Belfast, we became an independent university in 1908.

About the University

As a member of the Russell Group of UK research intensive universities, combining excellence in research and education with a student-centred ethos, Queen’s University Belfast is generating internationally leading research coupled with outstanding teaching and learning, focused on the needs of our society, locally and globally. The University is renowned for our strengths in enterprise and innovation, and was ranked 1st in the UK as the most entrepreneurial university in 2019 and 2020 (Octopus Ventures Impact Rankings).

The popular programs of the university are Accounting and Finance, Cancer Research, Chemical Engineering, Software Development and Computing. Queen’s is a city-based campus university at the heart of Belfast, a bustling, cosmopolitan city boasting a vibrant social life and rich cultural heritage. Belfast is more affordable than every other major student city in the UK. It is in the safest region in the UK (UK British Crime Surveys 2019/20) and the happiest (Lloyds Bank Happiness Index, 2020) too. All major UK cities are within an hour’s flying time of Belfast.

Popular Programmes

• BA Film Studies
• MSc Management
• BEng Mechanical Engineering
• BSc Biochemistry
• BEng Aerospace Engineering
• MSc Software Development
• MSc Autism Spectrum Disorders
• MSc Archaeology and Environment
• MSc Applied Psychology
• BA Archaeology
• LLM
• BSc Food Quality, Safety and Nutrition
• BSc Pharmaceutical Sciences
• MA in English

Scholarships

Please visit the website of the university for the scholarship options.