World-class campus

With our world-class developments for staff and students, Queen’s has some of the best campus facilities in the UK and Ireland. Investing £700m over a 20-year capital development programme, we are continuing to transform Queen’s historic campus into a beacon of learning and innovation.

Queen’s has one of the most modern campuses in the UK, including the award-winning McClay Library, one of the finest libraries in the world and home to 1.2 million volumes and 2,000 reader places. Other highlights include the state-of-the-art Physical Education Centre and the new purpose-built accommodation in Elms Village and the city centre.

The newly opened Student Centre at One Elmwood has transformed the provision of student services and support offered by the University and the Students’ Union, sharing one central, state-of-the-art facility for our 25,000 students. 

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Research and Teaching Excellence

The University has won six Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for Further and Higher Education, for world-class achievement in law, shared education, green chemistry, environmental research, paleoecology, and for Northern Ireland’s Comprehensive Cancer Services (CCS) programme.

The School of Law at Queen’s (QUB Law) has a long tradition of producing world-leading research with local, national and international dimensions.

In the Research Excellence Framework 2021, the School of Law ranked joint 8th in the U.K. for Law and achieved the maximum 4-star rating for each of our four Impact Case Studies which detail how particular research has produced demonstrable real-world social, economic or cultural benefits or change to wider society beyond academia.

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Campus and Location

Queen’s historic campus is set in Belfast – the capital city of the UK region of Northern Ireland. It is less than one hour from London by plane and is easily accessible from other parts of the UK and Europe. Belfast has a modern transport infrastructure with two airports and daily flights to British and major European destinations. Belfast offers something to suit every taste and budget. Historic pubs, stylish bars and cool clubs help to ensure Belfast lives up to its reputation as a ‘top travel destination of must-see regions’ for 2018. (Lonely Planet 2017).

‘One of the world’s most beautiful universities’ (Huffington Post), Queen’s is the 9th oldest university in the UK. It was established in 1845 and now has a staff and student body that is truly international and which informs its approach to research and teaching. You may take virtual tour of the University campus, including student accommodation, here.

Safest region in the UK

Northern Ireland was named the safest region in the UK (British Crime Survey 2015/16).

Queen’s University is located in a quiet residential suburb about 15 minutes’ walk from Belfast city-centre.  Street crime and burglary rates in Belfast are much lower than in comparable European or American cities