About
Queen's University Belfast is a UK university founded in 1845, based in Belfast, with around 24,560 students.
Academic staff have published 101,316 works cited 6,248,480 times, with an h-index of 645.
Courses at Queen's University Belfast (413)
Accounting
Queen's University Belfast
Accounting, Finance and Analytics
Queen's University Belfast
Accounting with French
Queen's University Belfast
A-Levels
AAB
NSS Score
87.1%
Avg. grad pay (5y)
£23,500
Accounting with Spanish
Queen's University Belfast
A-Levels
AAB
Avg. grad pay (5y)
£23,500
Actuarial Science
Queen's University Belfast
Actuarial Science and Risk Management
Queen's University Belfast
A-Levels
A*AA
Avg. grad pay (5y)
£27,000
Notable alumni of Queen's University Belfast
See all 249 →249 notable graduates and former students with Wikipedia coverage, ranked by international reach. Source: Wikidata.
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939–2013)
Liam Neeson
actor from Northern Ireland (born 1952)
Mary McAleese
8th President of Ireland
David Trimble
First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002
Ciarán Hinds
Northern Irish actor
John Stewart Bell
Northern Irish physicist (1928–1990)
Stephen Rea
Irish actor
Martin O'Neill
Northern Irish association football player and manager (born 1952)
Joseph Larmor
Irish physicist and mathematician (1857-1942)
Arlene Foster
British politician (born 1970)
Simon Callow
British actor
Hulusi Akar
Turkish military officer and politician (born 1952)
Rankings
- Complete University Guide 2026
- #24
- The Guardian (UK) 2026
- #45
- QS World 2026
- =199
- Times Higher Ed (World) 2026
- =198
- ARWU (Shanghai) 2025
- #301
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Quick Facts
- Location
- Belfast
- Postcode
- BT7 1NN
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Founded
- 1845
- Student Count
- 24,560