Queen's University, Belfast (QUB) - 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. Widely regarded as the most prestigious educational institution in the province, Queen's offers degrees at various levels and across several faculties including those in Law, Medicine, Dentistry, Humanities and Engineering.
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. |
