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Queen's University, Belfast (QUB) - or officially The Queen's University of Belfast - is a university in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The university was originally part of 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. 1845 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Victoria of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... This article is about the city of Belfast in Northern Ireland. ... Northern Ireland is an administrative region and one of four parts of the United Kingdom. ... Professor Peter Gregson is the current Vice-Chancellor of the Queens University of Belfast taking over from Sir George Bain in August 2004. ... George John Mitchell, GBE (born August 20, 1933) is Chairman of the Walt Disney Company. ... The European University Association (EUA) is the main voice of the higher education community in Europe. ... This article is about the city of Belfast in Northern Ireland. ... Northern Ireland is an administrative region and one of four parts of the United Kingdom. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin or more commonly Trinity College, Dublin (TCD) was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I, is the only constituent college of the University of Dublin, Irelands oldest university. ... A degree is any of a wide range of awards made by institutions of higher education, such as universities, normally as the result of successfully completing a program of study. ...

History

The university has its roots in the Belfast Academical Institution, founded in 1810, whilst the university was established as a college in 1845 as Queen's College, Belfast when it was associated with what was then Queen's College, Cork and Queen's College, Galway as part of the Queen's University of Ireland (1850) and later the 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. The National University of Ireland (NUI) is a federal university system of constituent universities, previously called constituent colleges, and recognised colleges set up under the Irish Universities Act, 1908, as amended by the Universities Act, 1997. ...

A more detailed history: A History (QUB Website) (http://www.qub.ac.uk/home/TheUniversity/AboutQueens/HistoryofQueens/)

The Lanyon Building designed by the Belfast architect Sir Charles Lanyon

Associations

The Quad at Queen's

Academic

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 term university college is used in a number of countries to denote institutions that provide tertiary education but do not have full or independent university status. ... St Marys University College St Marys University College is a university college of Queens University, Belfast and was established in 1985, but can directly trace its existence to 1900 and the foundation of St Marys Training College. ... Stranmillis University College Stranmillis University College is a university college of Queens University, Belfast and was established in 1922 to provide state-funded teacher training by the then newly created Government of Northern Ireland to ensure that their would be a non-denominational teacher training college within the new... In education, teachers are those who teach students or pupils, often a course of study or a practical skill. ...

The university has formal agreements with other colleges in Northern Ireland and operates several outreach schemes to rural areas, the most successful of which is at Armagh, the Armagh Campus (http://www.armagh.qub.ac.uk). Armagh is a city in Northern Ireland, the capital of County Armagh. ...

Institutes

Located close to the main campus is the Institute of Professional Legal Studies at Queen's which offers training to law graduates to enable them to practice as solicitors or barristers in Northern Ireland, England & Wales and the Republic of Ireland. Admission to the Institute is highly competitive and depends on the graduate's overall academic standing and their performance in an unseen written exam. In the United Kingdom and countries having a similar legal system the legal profession is divided into two kinds of lawyers: the solicitors who contact and advise clients, and barristers who argue cases in court. ... British barristers wearing traditional dress. ...

Reputation

Independent league tables published by The Times newspaper in 2004 placed Queen's in the top-ten of all United Kingdom universities for subjects including dentistry, law, engineering, celtic studies and physics. The Times is a national quality daily newspaper in the United Kingdom. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the G8, the European Union, and NATO. Usually known simply as the United Kingdom, the UK, or (inaccurately) as Great Britain or Britain, the UK has four constituent... X-rays can reveal if a person has cavities Dentistry is the practical application of knowledge of dental science (the science of placement, arrangement, function of teeth) to human beings. ... Law (a loanword from Danish- Norwegian lov), in politics and jurisprudence, is a set of rules or norms of conduct which mandate, proscribe or permit specified relationships among people and organizations, provide methods for ensuring the impartial treatment of such people, and provide punishments for those who do not follow... Engineering is the application of science to the needs of humanity. ... The word Celtic can refer to: the European Celtic people, ancient or modern the Celtic languages, spoken by these people and their modern descendents the Celtic (Lusitania), Celts from the Alentejo. ... Physics (from the Greek, φυσικός (phusikos), natural, and φύσις (phusis), nature) is the science of nature in the broadest sense. ...

See also

• Education in Northern Ireland
• List of universities in Northern Ireland
• List of alumni of Queen's University, Belfast

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External links

• Queen's University, Belfast (http://www.qub.ac.uk)