Queen's University Belfast
Founded in 1845 as a prestigious institution at the vibrant capital city of the Northern Ireland, Queen’s University Belfast has its foundation. It is also one of the UK’s leading research intense universities with a world class academic excellence and its ground breaking researches. From healthcare to sustainability, and artificial intelligence, the university’s groundbreaking research matters to our world, and the university has a role to play in shaping a better world. In the cosmopolitan city of Belfast, home to a rich academic and cultural student experience and an affordable, friendly and safe campus, Queen’s is a source of great pride for us all.
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why choose Queen’s University Belfast
Queen’s University Belfast offers our students a lively and dynamic learning environment, first class facilities and an internationally connected, yet community institution. Here are the top 10 reasons why Queen’s is a preferred choice for students:
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World class facilities: Queen’s is part of the UK’s Russell group, the 24 leading Research UK universities and was recognized as one of the elite institutions in the UK in the last UK Research assessment exercise.
Research with Global Impact: Queen’s University delivers real world solutions to global challenges – 99% of Queen’s University research environment rated as world leading or internationally excellent (REF) 2021.
World Leading Academics: Expert teachers (each of whom also are researchers) and research informs their teaching results, students being taught by people capable of delivering today’s most current, most useful, future ready information (± tomorrow).
Global Opportunities: Students can take advantage of the study or work abroad programs on offer, as an option, to develop their degrees further, and obtain much sought after international experience and graduate employability skills.
Safe and affordable: The International Student Barometer (2020/21) reveals that our student approved housing on offer represents best value for money of any UK university. Over 1,200 new rooms are available in city center locations and 96% of international students say that they feel safe and secure here.
A Vibrant Student Community: We are passionate about making sure people fit (those many, many areas, from a stellar range of over 215 student led clubs and societies to matchless sports facilities – UK universities number 1 for sports – and everywhere else) and, above all, we want you to be happy.
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Campus Facilities at Queen's University Belfast
The past 20 years has seen a Capital Development Programmed of over £700million invested producing, it is hoped, some of the finest campus facilities in the UK and Ireland. The intent is that they be able to provide students and staff with capacity to realize enormous academic and research ambitions.
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- LEGO Lab: Itself, being creative and design space that is dynamic.
- Centre for Dentistry: The hospital was on the Royal Victoria Hospital campus and offered hands on clinical training.
- Marine Laboratory: That were marine biology or environmental.
- Pharmacy Practice Unit: I prepared pharmacy students for actual real world clinical situations.
- Fitur Trading Room: When we visit a place of finance and trading simulation.
- Sonic Laboratory: A Research and a Music Production Space.
- Moot Court: Law students will have hands on courtroom experience with interactive teaching space.
- Digital Studio: Funding for the digital humanities and creative projects.
Accommodation Facilities
- Queen’s offers a range of safe, affordable, and modern accommodation options to suit every lifestyle:
- Elms BT1: Located in the town center of Belfast and within convenient distance of Queen’s main campus and shops and cafes.
- There may be village style setups close to the campus, village style settings around the campus or even urban style centered housing, if that’s what you want.
- Accommodation is support, a full events calendar and naturally affordability via an all-inclusive package.
Student Services provided by Queen's University Belfast
From financial standpoint and on career guidance side (or any kind of other institution that
work with student wellbeing or international student services) Queen’s is prepared to help their new and potential students.
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Financial Support
- Queen’s provides financial assistance to students experiencing economic difficulties:
Student Support Fund: For students who are in a position of short-term financial difficulty. - Queen’s Care Leavers Bursary: It is about a fund to provide financial aid to student carers, who make start to their studies.
- Queen’s Bursary: Moreover, this will further help financial assistance to the students, who’s fortunate are eligible to some weight off their shoulders.
- The Student Wellbeing Team provides a range of free and accessible services, including:
- Drop-In Services: Support for students both on and off campus.
- One-to-One Counselling: Meaning promoting emotional and mental health with a lot of trained professional confidential session.
- Wellbeing Events: Resilience, stress management and wellbeing activities are promoted throughout Myspace for every student.
Accessible Learning Support
- For students with disabilities or long-term conditions, Queen’s ensures equitable access through:
- You can ask for academic accommodations Smart Burst sample tests, and your smartburst.com exam arrangements.
Disabled Student’s Allowance (DSA)
Learning Development Service
- The Learning Development Service helps students improve their academic performance through:
- Workshops: What they are covering is essential skills like essay writing, time management and research.
- One-to-One Appointments: We work at offering students’ personal academic advice and support.
- Online Resources: My tools, and techniques, to study with.
Additional Support Services
- Student Finance: Tuition fees and how to pay, spread of options when it comes to funding, financial advice.
- Student Information Point: There is also advice on making the most of your student time: student life, academics and administrative enquiries. The One Elmwood Student Centre can find you.
- IT Training and Support: University IT systems, equipment, virtual learning platforms.
- Health Services: As long as you can be an Ayrshire resident and be attending Ayrshire College, they can give you free NHS prescriptions and consultation about your medical needs at The University Health Centre.
- Childcare: Full time daycare, Out of School Care and summer programs. (For students with children).
- Faith Provision: A very diverse network of chaplains and representatives of a variety of faiths serve students. Queen’s University Belfast offers scholarships.
- Generous Queen’s University Belfast scholarships is available for domestic and international students to pursue their studying across many kinds. These scholarships eliminate a few financial barriers to completing college and also reward excellence.
Scholarships Offered by Queen's University Belfast
Queen’s offers prestigious tuition fee reductions
- Up to £7,500 Tuition Fee Reduction: For students eligible to start on full time courses in 2025 (excludes Pip or Peart courses).
- Eligibility: British Council ‘Reimagine the Future’ Scholarship is available to those applicants who have received and accepted a place to study full time at an Undergraduate or Postgraduate level at Queen’s University.
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- Vice-chancellor’s International Attainment Scholarship.
- Award: The duration of the fee, for the course is reduced by 50%.
- Eligibility: It awards grants to those international university entrants with the outstanding academic record and great leadership potential.
- Application: After being offered a place to study at Queen’s students apply.
INTO Progressors Scholarship
- Designed for INTO Queen’s students progressing to undergraduate or postgraduate studies:
- Award: A discount is offered for tuition fees to new international students with unconditional offer.
- Eligibility: Must not have completed any INTO academic course nor GCE O Level with a C or better.
Regional Scholarships
Queen’s offers scholarships tailored for specific regions, including:
- Sub Saharan Africa, North America and Latin America, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, and Europe.
- Award: Region dependent; provided with reduced or no tuition fee(s)/closed aid or receive cash aid.
The Entrance Competition
- Award: The value of the scholarships is between £600 and £2,400.
- Eligibility: Minimum of 3 A grades at A level (or equivalent).
The Scholarship for Mature Learners
- Award: Supporting mature students for attendance to study for a Bachelor’s Degree.
- Eligibility: Their main objective to the schools was to design higher education accessible with regards to financial needs.
Placements & Internships Offered by Queen's University Belfast
As Queen’s University Belfast, we want to give our students as much valuable, impactful work experience as we possibly can during their university study, so that they feel ‘work ready’ when they graduate. Queens has a range of financed internships, global opportunities and industry placements to help students enhance their employability and increase job opportunities.
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Summer Internships Match Funded
- Duration: 8 weeks during the summer.
- Funding: Queen’s University pays 50% of members’ funding of salaries.
- Eligibility: Intended for undergraduate a post graduate students.
- Benefits: It [business case] helps students experience different business functions such as research, operations and policy development, hands on.
- This globally has been one of the highlights of the NI Internships.
- Duration: 4 summer weeks (June–August).
- Funding: Queen’s Careers, Employability, and Skills paid £1,000 bursary to the student.
- Details: The projects of international nature are based in Northern Ireland and the students work on them. A mix of virtual, in person or hybrid role, helping clients, teams, or research (even potentially internationally).
- Benefits: Staying in Northern Ireland will give students work experience worldwide, and international market experience.
Placement Year Opportunities
- Almost all universities and companies actually advise you to do an internship or placement.
- Participating in internships and placements at Queen’s University provides:
- A link between academic learning and real-world experience.
- It results in better employability skills and better competitive advantage in working world.
- Opportunity to build your industry network and your field network.
- Worked on the International work culture and projects.
Student Life at Queen's University Belfast
Queen’s University Belfast itself is an absolute love – it has a very memorable and bubbly
student life, more than 150 societies, pretty great facilities, and lives in a city that never sleeps; Aside from affordability Queen’s offers cultural diversity and first-class facilities to do all it can to ensure the intellectual, social, and personal stimulation of each student while at Belfast.
Reduced costs about accommodation, food and entertainment also fall to students’ account
and thus student can afford more to do the city offers.
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Vibrant Campus Life
- Clubs and Societies: Over 215 student led clubs and societies are there to ensure there is something on (something associated) with 15,000+ active members. We have over:
- Sports Clubs: Options include rugby and rowing and fitness programs, among more than 50 other possibilities.
- Cultural Societies: The others are the African Caribbean society, the Chinese Students
Association, the Islamic society and so on. - Creative and Social Clubs: Art, music, groups based in charity, and gaming.
- Events and Festivals: At all times of the year, the Queen’s Quarter – which hosts festivals, live performances and food markets – is worth a visit.
Accommodation Options
- Queen’s offers high-quality, affordable accommodation that prioritizes safety and comfort:
- These may be your spaces for same sex people, no alcohol and quiet living space.
- All accommodations are within easy walking distance of campus, as well as city amenities, and have staff on call 24h a day to provide student wellbeing support.
Life in Belfast
- Belfast is a compact and vibrant city, filled with history, entertainment, and modern amenities:
- Culture and Entertainment: Whether you’re an art (and festival) person, attending museums, music scenes and nightlife, there’s plenty to enjoy for everyone.
- International Food Scene: Restaurants, markets and specialty shops selling halal groceries, Asian supermarkets and international eateries pepper the city with them.
- Outdoor Adventures: Soak up the Giant’s Causeway surroundings or the Botanic Gardens or a coastal run to soak up the fresh sea air.
Global Opportunities
- More than 800 students a year study and complete work placements in more than 40 countries around the world, which Queen’s promotes as broadening of horizons.
- To demonstrate NI Internships doesn’t even have to leave Belfast for example here is provision in a Working Globally program for international internships one for students.
Health and Wellbeing
- Mental and Emotional Wellbeing: The programs are part of a suite of comprehensive services that include wellbeing events and resilience programs.
- University Health Centre: The students will be able to access medical care quickly through the on-campus healthcare services.
- Faith and Religion: Chaplain support is available to 12 religious denominations and quiet spaces for prayer, reflection or relaxation.
Sport and Recreation
- Queen’s Sport Facilities: All sporting facilities (PEC Upper Malone sports and grounds Boathouse) are to very high standard.
- Elite Athlete Program: I want to help create an ideal path for students that understands that balancing their dreams of being a student athlete is not impossible.
- One Elmwood Student Centre: Where we answer student’s questions and student’s wellbeing support.
The Queen’s Quarter
- The area surrounding the university is a multicultural and creative hub filled with:
Restaurateurs, café proprietor, and, especially persons with businesses involving live entertainment. - Just like Botanic Gardens are beautiful parks and historic landmarks.
- Belfast is so safe and walkable that students can learn to explore, connect and make memories in the environment better.
Entry Requirements at Queen's University Belfast
- The requirements for undergraduates, how to apply and enter.
- To gain direct entry to undergraduate programs, Indian students must meet one of the following criteria:
Indian Standard XII: CBSE, ICSE, States Boards (Karnataka Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal) accepted.
Minimum Score:
- Overall, it is 70 per cent (CBSE/ICSE and most of the State boards).
- For programs asking IELTS 6.5 for IELTS, a perched 75% overall score.
- Subject specific requirements depend on the course.
- International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma is also known as.
- An NCEA Level 3 Certificate with no more than two double subject courses; overall points achieved at or above 29, and including at least 6, 5 or 4 (depending on program) or more for each Higher-Level subject.
Examples:
- AAB equivalent: Minimum requirements for admission to Degrees: At Higher Level: A1, A1, B at Higher level, plus AAB at Ordinary Level.
- BBB equivalent: For example, reunite 6, 5, 5 (HL) and a minimum of 32 points.
PhD Entry Requirements
- An applicant must have ended up with Bachelor’s and Master’s degree with great grades from an identified institution.
- Applicants must have a well-developed research proposal in the broadly defined areas of the university’s areas of research.
English Language Requirements
IELTS Academic: Overall, I have lowered 6.5 without any lower than 5.5 (higher in some classes).
Standard XII English
- At least from CBSE, ICSE or major state boards with at least 70%.
- If you need IELTS 6.5 for the courses you need you must get at least 75%.
Alternative Tests
- TOEFL iBT: Minimum of 17 or better for individual sections, or a cumulative of 90 or higher.
- PTE Academic: Below 59, 69 overall, none.
Queen's University Belfast Rankings
- Such a Globally Respected Institution with the absolutely best Student support by a long shot.
- QUB is one of the globe’s leading universities with an outstanding reputation for research and teaching and for its socio-economic impact to the nation and the globe.
REF 2021 Excellence:99% of research environments were judged world leading or internationally excellent (93%) or both.
Ranked: Agriculture, Food and Veterinary Sciences: 1st in the UK.
- 8th in the UK for Law.
- Teachers Reviews Teaching Excellence and Reputation Portfolio News
Queen’s is renowned for its exceptional teaching quality, proven by national and international recognition:
1st in the UK for:
Dentistry
- Agriculture and Forestry (Times and Sunday Times effective 2024).
- Pharmacy and Pharmacology (Guardian University Guide 2024).
Commitment to Sustainability
- Queen’s plays a pivotal role in addressing global sustainability challenges:
- Top 100 Globally: Sustainability ranked: QS World University Rankings 2025.
- Ranked 9th globally for SDG 15 – Life on Land, in THE Impact Rankings 2024.
- International Student Barometer 2022: ‘Life at Queen’s is ecofriendly and 94% of current international students say so.’
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