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Ulster University
Irish:Ollscoil Uladh[1]
Scots:Ulstèr Universitie
Latin:Universitas Ulidiae
TypePublicresearch university
Established1865;159 years ago(1865)– Magee College
1953;71 years ago(1953)– Magee University
1969;55 years ago(1969)– New University of Ulster
1982;42 years ago(1982)– University of Ulster (remains official name)
2014;10 years ago(2014)– Ulster University
Endowment£15.0million (2023)[2]
Budget£282.5million (2022/23)[2]
ChancellorColin Davidson[3]
Vice-ChancellorPaul Bartholomew[4]
Academic staff
1,665[5]
Students32,085 (2019/20)[6]
Undergraduates19,020 (2019/20)[6]
Postgraduates13,070 (2019/20)[6]
Location
Belfast,Coleraine,Jordanstown,Derry,London,Birmingham,Doha

CampusVaried (urban/ rural)
ColoursLogo:Navy blue & bronze

Seal:Red & gold
Affiliations
Websiteulster.ac.uk
Ulster University re-branded logo, showing the left-hand side, bowl and top-right serif of a capital U in gold and the words 'Ulster University' in navy blue sans-serif

Ulster University(Irish:Ollscoil Uladh;[1]Ulster Scots:Ulstèr Universitie[7]orUlstèr Varsitie), legally theUniversity of Ulster,[8]is a multi-campuspublicresearch universitylocated inNorthern Ireland.It is often referred to informally and unofficially as Ulster, or by the abbreviation UU.[9][10][11]It is the largest university in Northern Ireland and the second-largest university on the island ofIreland,after the federalNational University of Ireland.

Established in 1865 as Magee College, the college took its modern form in 1984 after the merger of theNew University of Ulsterestablished in 1968, andUlster Polytechnic,incorporating its four Northern Irish campuses under theUniversity of Ulsterbanner. The university incorporated its four campuses in 1984; located inBelfast,Coleraine,Derry(Magee College), andJordanstown.The university has branch campuses in bothLondonandBirmingham,and an extensivedistance learningprovision. The university rebranded as Ulster University in October 2014, including a revised visual identity, though its legal name remained unchanged.

The university is a member of theAssociation of Commonwealth Universities,[12]theEuropean University Association,Universities IrelandandUniversities UK.

History

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In 1963, theGovernment of Northern Irelandappointed a committee to review facilities for university and higher technical education in Northern Ireland, modeled onthe committee on higher education in Great Britainchaired byLionel Robbinswhich had reported that year. The Northern Ireland committee was chaired bySir John Lockwood,Master ofBirkbeck College,London. The Robbins Report had recommended a substantial expansion of higher education in Great Britain, partly triggered by theAnderson Report of 1960,which increased demand by instigating astudent grantsscheme.[13]The Lockwood committee was expected to recommend a second university in Northern Ireland, afterQueen's University Belfast.

InDerry,groups led by theUniversity for Derry Committeehoped thatMagee University Collegewould become the new university. Founded as a Presbyterian training college in 1865, Magee was associated with theRoyal University of Irelandwhich existed between 1880 and 1908, and then with theUniversity of Dublinand Queen's Belfast.[14]However, theLockwood Reportcriticised Magee's cramped site, complacent culture, and "eccentric" and "barely workable" administration; it found its claim to be based on historical entitlement rather than planning for future.[15][16]Instead, the report recommended a greenfield university inColeraineand closing Magee.[15]This was controversial, with manynationalistssuggesting theunionistO'Neill ministryfavoured a unionist-majority area rather than nationalist-majority Derry. Disgruntlement fed theNorthern Ireland civil rights movementwhich helped sparkthe Troubles.[17][18]The "New University of Ulster" (NUU) enrolled its first students at Coleraine in 1968.[19]Magee was not closed but incorporated in the NUU, which obtained acharterin 1970.[19]

Following a review of higher education in Northern Ireland under the chairmanship ofSir Henry Chilverin 1982, theNorthern Ireland Office(NIO) decided to merge NUU with another Lockwood Report foundation, the Ulster Polytechnic inJordanstown.[19]The NUU charter was surrendered and the merged University of Ulster (dropping "New" from the name) got its charter on 1 October 1984.[19]Later theBelfast School of Art and Design(founded in 1849) became part of the university.

Campus One, the Virtual Campus of the university, was launched on 8 October 2001 which successfully facilitated the provision of undergraduate and postgraduate level courses via distance learning.[20]The university now simply refers to this as distance learning.

The university formerly had a laboratory named 'The University of Ulster Freshwater Laboratory' atTraad Pointon the shore ofLough NeaghinBallymaguigan.The Freshwater Laboratory, although not a campus, was a site of the university and consisted of on-campus accommodation, classrooms and testing labs. Courses offered were in agriculture, the wildlife of Lough Neagh, water testing and other aquatic courses. The site is now owned byMagherafelt District Council.By 2010, the area had become popular with the locals for camping, fishing and sailing.

In autumn 2011 Vice-Chancellor Barnett announced a programme of financial restructuring with the aim of reducing the number of staff employed by the university from 3,150 to 3,000.[21]Staff at the university expressed concern about the proposed means and impact of the restructuring, citing "the use of the threat of compulsory redundancy to bully and intimidate staff" and the belief that the university was "abdicating its responsibilities to the wider community that funds it".[22]

In April 2012, the Ulster University branch of the University and College Union (UCU) declared a formal dispute with university management over its implementation of the restructuring, stating that the recourse to "premature deadlines and unwarranted threats of compulsory redundancy" was "unreasonable as well as contrary to University policy and corporate goals".[23]

The reasons for cuts are not, however, unique to Ulster University. First of all, there was theGreat Recessionthat began in 2008 and engendered a change in government and a sharp reduction in public spending. Secondly, there were issues pertaining to tuition fees. As a result of political devolution in the United Kingdom (mandated from 1998 onwards),fees differ in the four countriesthat make up the union. For undergraduate tuition, they are currently£9,250in England but only£4,030in Northern Ireland. For a while, the low fees in Northern Ireland were hailed as a triumph for devolution and seemed a tool to facilitate access for less advantaged students. Universities in Northern Ireland fared reasonably well financially. However, as Pritchard and Slowey[24]: 175–190 point out, if the government does not make up the shortfall, low fees left Northern Ireland universities at a disadvantage compared to their English counterparts.

In 2015, the UK Government reduced the funding allocation for Higher Education Institutions by 8.2%. Both Northern Ireland universities had to make cuts. Queen's University announced immediate job cuts of 236 and student number reductions of ca. 290 (1,010 over the next three years).[24]: 184 Ulster also announced its intention of cutting over 200 jobs and 250 student places in 2015–16 (1,200 over the following three years).

On 20 June 2023, theGovernment of Irelandannounced that it was providing approximately€45million in funding to Ulster University.[25][26][27][28][29][30]

Campuses

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An onlinedistance learningprovision offers Ulster University courses globally. The university was among the first Universities to offer degree level programs through its previous "Campus One" program and was a pioneer in the introduction of online degree level courses in Biomedical Sciences.[20][31][32]The university was subsequently selected by the European Commission to deliver the world's first Higher Educational Programme in Hydrogen Safety Engineering.[33]

Belfast

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Ulster University's Belfast campus is in the city's Cathedral Quarter, its artistic and cultural centre. Although traditionally associated with art and home to the university's School of Art, originally inaugurated as theBelfast School of Art and Designin 1849, the campus has a range of subjects including architecture, hospitality, event management, photography and digital animation. The award-winning[citation needed]Law Clinic is based at the Belfast campus, offering free legal advice on social security and employment law.

Ulster University has been expanding and developing the Belfast campus since 2009 as part of one of Northern Ireland's largest-ever urban developments, and nearly 15,000 students and staff will soon be based in the city centre.[citation needed]The first phase of this development opened in 2015 and completion of the project was due in 2019. In September 2021 the first students were welcomed to the new campus. The fully completed campus began accepting students starting in the 2022/23 academic year.[34]

Coleraine

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Main article:Ulster University at Coleraine

Ulster University's Coleraine campusis on the banks of theRiver Bannwith views to the North Coast and County Donegal hills. Subjects taught at Coleraine include biomedical sciences, environmental science and geography, pharmacy, psychology, the humanities, film and journalism, travel and tourism as well as teacher training.

A major development at Coleraine was the introduction of the degree programme in biomedical sciences in 1980.[35]This subject area grew and was ranked first in the UK in three successive Research Assessment Exercises (1996, 2001 and 2008). It also spawned the development of related subject areas including human nutrition, radiography, clinical science, optometry, podiatry, pharmacy, pharmacology and stratified medicine.[36][32]

In 2002,£14.5million was awarded under the Support Programme for University Research (SPUR) to establish the Centre for Molecular Biosciences at Coleraine.[37]

The Coleraine campus now hosts a number of courses which were previously held at the School of Hotel, Leisure and Tourism in Portrush. This Portrush site closed in 2008, with courses relocated to the Coleraine and the newly developed Belfast campuses.

In 2009, the university launched a new Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) course at Coleraine.[citation needed]

In July 2011, in cooperation withZhejiang University of Media and Communications (ZUMC),'The Confucius Institute at Ulster University' (CIUU) was developed. The Confucius Institute is part of a network of 322 institutes in over 50 countries which promote and teach Chinese language and culture and facilitate cultural exchanges aimed at fostering trade links with China.[38]

In spring 2015, a new£5.1million teaching block was completed at the Coleraine Campus.[citation needed]Later in 2015, a new Faculty of Arts building was opened following a£6.75million investment. It is now home to a digital media archive, updated media facilities, including radio and television studios, and a postgraduate research centre as well as office and administration accommodation.[citation needed]

Jordanstown

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Ulster University's Jordanstown campus, often informally referred to as UUJ, was formerly the site of the Ulster College of Physical Education, one of several Colleges which came together in the formation of the Ulster Polytechnic, and is the largest university campus. The 114-acre (0.46 km2) site is located seven miles north of Belfast city centre situated at the foot of the Antrim Hills overlooking Belfast Lough. The buildings are mostly situated around a central mall with on-site stores and services. The campus has a strong profile in business, engineering, construction, social sciences (includinglaw), communication and academic disciplines relating to the science and coaching of sport.[citation needed]Sport plays a significant part in the life of the campus. It is home to the Sports Institute of Northern Ireland, a partnership between the university and Sport Northern Ireland, and most of Northern Ireland's elite athletes train in the facilities.[citation needed]The campus is also the only university in Northern Ireland to offer undergraduate and postgraduate courses in various Allied Health Professions, such as Cardiac and Respiratory Clinical Physiology, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiography, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Podiatry and Speech and Language Therapy. The campus is also the only campus delivering courses in Biomedical Engineering within Northern Ireland.

Magee

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Main article:Magee College

TheMagee campusin the city ofDerrycomprises a mixture of historic and new buildings in a Victorian residential area. It was named afterMartha Mageeand opened in 1865 as aPresbyterianChristian arts andtheological college.[39]Since 1953, it has had no religious affiliation, and was one of the founding campuses of the university in 1968. Ongoing investment in the Magee campus provides teaching, research and support facilities for students and staff. This comprises a student residential village offering en-suite accommodation, a library, the Intelligent Systems Research Centre, the Foyle Arts Building and a Centre for Engineering and Renewable Energy offering a wide range of Engineering courses.

In addition to the university's teaching and learning facilities, the campus has on-site residential, catering and sports facilities. Sports facilities include a multi-purpose sports hall, fitness suite and studio as well as a grass and floodlit synthetic 3G pitch with a pavilion and changing facilities.

Branch campuses

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The university has a partnership with QA Higher Education, which operates two branch campuses in England: London and Birmingham. TheLondoncampus is inHolborn,and theBirminghamcampus is in theCentre City Tower.[40][41]The campuses offer courses in business, finance and computing.[42]

Qatar

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In 2019, CUC became an Affiliative College of Ulster University, a partnership which enabled it to offer and deliver Ulster undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes within Qatar. The partnership was officially signed in June 2019, with an official launch in February 2020. The first BSc (Hons) in Business Studies degree was approved to run in 2020 and the first cohort of students, who completed their HND at CUC that year, enrolled in the final year (top-up) of the degree programme in September 2020. The college amended its name to City University College in recognition of its change in status. Under the partnership agreement, the Ulster University, Qatar brand was formed. In October 2020, the Ministry of Higher Education issued a directive that the college should be known as City University College in partnership with Ulster University.

Organisation and governance

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Governance

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Vice-Chancellors
Chancellors

Faculties

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The four faculties of Ulster University are:

  • Arts Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment
  • Life and Health Sciences
  • Ulster University Business School

Academic profile

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The university's course provision is the largest in Northern Ireland, covering arts, business, engineering, information technology, life and health sciences, management, and social sciences. Courses have a strongvocationalelement and the majority include a period of industrial or professional placement.

Rankings

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Rankings
National rankings
Complete(2025)[44]42=
Guardian(2025)[45]24
Times / Sunday Times(2025)[46]45
Global rankings
ARWU(2024)[47]701–800
QS(2025)[48]559=
THE(2024)[49]601–800

The university is ranked annually by theComplete University Guide,The Guardian,and jointly byThe TimesandThe Sunday Times;this makes up the UK University League Table rankings. It was shortlisted forSunday Times University of the Yearin 2001.

The institution is a leading modern university ranked in the top 150 global institutions under 50 years of age in The Times Higher Education 150 Under 50 World University rankings.[50]

Ulster is in the top 20% in international outlook in 2016, registering as 401 - 500 in the THE World University Rankings.[51]

Ulster scores highly for student satisfaction with the 2018 National Student Survey unveiling 87% satisfaction rates—ranking 23rd out of 154 UK universities.[52]

In 2019 Ulster ranked 2nd in the UK for the UK University Acceptance rates on a university review platform StudentCrowd.[53]

Research

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The university embarked upon a policy of research selectivity in 1993 funded partially by Northern Ireland Development Funds (NIDevR) administered via the Northern Ireland Higher Education Council.[54]The policy resulted in greatly improved performance by the university in subsequent Research Assessment Exercises (1996, 2001 and 2008; 3 subject areas, biomedical sciences, nursing and Celtic studies were ranked in the top 5 in the UK in the latter exercise) and in improving its publication output, external research funding and knowledge transfer activities.[55][56][57]The establishment in 2002–2003 of a number of research institutes in areas of established strength and the receipt of over£40million through the Support Programme for University Research (SPUR), funded jointly by Atlantic Philanthropies and the Northern Ireland Department for Employment and Learning (DEL), yielded a further significant enhancement in the university's research performance.[55]

TheResearch Excellence Framework2014 exercise identified the institution as one of the top five universities in the UK for research in law, biomedical sciences, nursing and art and design. Under some metrics, it ranked the university top in Northern Ireland for research into biomedical sciences, law, business and management, architecture and built environment, art and design, social policy, sport, media studies and nursing.[58]

TheResearch Excellence Framework2014 identified that 72% of the university's research activity was world-leading or internationally excellent.[59]Additionally the REF evaluation identified the university as ranked:

Research Institutes

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There are 15 Research Institutes at the university. These are:

  • Arts & Humanities Research Institute (AHRI)
  • Biomedical Sciences Research Institute
  • Built Environment Research Institute
  • Business and Management Research Institute
  • Centre for Media Research
  • Computer Science Research Institute
  • Engineering Research Institute (ERI)
  • Environmental Sciences Research Institute
  • Institute of Nursing and Health Research
  • Institute for Research in Social Sciences
  • Irish and Celtic Studies Research Institute
  • Psychology Research Institute
  • Research Institute for Art and Design (RIAD)
  • Sport and Exercise Sciences Research Institute
  • Transitional Justice Institute

Notable alumni

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Main article:List of Ulster University people

Ulster has a large body of notable alumni, includingMPsKate Hoey,Gregory Campbell,Michelle Gildernew,Roberta Blackman-Woodsand former deputy First Minister of Northern IrelandMark Durkan,MLAsAlban Maginness,Basil McCreaandSeán Neeson,writers and authors includingAnne Devlin,Dinah Jefferies,Colin Duriez,Calum NeillandAodán Mac Póilin,poets includingGerald Dawe,Brendan Hamill,andVivimarie Vanderpoortenand artists includingJack Coulter,Colin Davidson,Oliver Jeffers,Freddie Freeburn,Victor Sloan,Andre Stitt,John LukeandJohn Kindness.Other alumni include composerBrian Irvine,musicianDavid Lyttle,comedianOmid Djalili,former hostage and writerBrian Keenan,historianSimon Kitson,biomedical scientist and former Vice-ChancellorGerry McKenna,visual artistWillie Doherty,photographerMary Fitzpatrick,film producerMichael Riley,rugby playerBrian Robinson,radio and television personalityGerry Anderson,nursing academicAlison Kitson,CEO of CognizantBrian Humphriesand senior police officerBarbara Gray.[citation needed]

Notable current and formeracademicswho have worked at Ulster include historianAntony Alcock,political scientistMonica McWilliams,poetsAndrew WatermanandJames Simmons,literary criticWalter Allen,physicist and subsequently Vice-Chancellor of theUniversity of Sheffield,Gareth Roberts,mathematicianRalph Henstock,head of the School of Electrical and Mechanical EngineeringJohn Anderson (inventor),solar energy technologist and President ofDublin Institute of Technology,Brian Norton,law professorsBrice DicksonandDenis Moloney,Professor of Nursing ResearchBrendan George McCormack.Turner Prize-nominated video artistWillie Doherty,Official War ArtistPaul Seawrightand live artistAnne Seagrave,and professor of ophthalmologyJennifer Craig.[60][citation needed]

Academics who were elected to membership of theRoyal Irish Academy[61]while based at Ulster include Bertie Ussher (Classics), Norman Gibson (Economics), Amyan Macfadyen (Biology), Bill Watts (Chemistry),Gerry McKenna(Biomedical Sciences, Genetics), Sean Strain (Biomedical Sciences, Nutrition), Marshall McCabe (Geology), Peter Flatt (Biomedical Sciences, Diabetes), Séamus MacMathúna (Celtic Studies),Robert Anthony Welch(Literature), Vani Borooah (Economics), Máréaid Nic Craith (Celtic Studies), Graham Gargett (French), Helene McNulty (Biomedical Sciences, Nutrition), Pól Ó Dochartaigh (German), Robert McBride (French), Ullrich Kockel (ethnography),John McCloskey(Geosciences), Rosalind Pritchard (Education), Derek Jackson (Environmental Sciences), Raffaella Folli (Linguistics), Andrew Cooper (Geosciences), Pilar Fernandez-Ibanez (Environmental Engineering).

Recipients of honorary degrees include the former President of the United StatesBill Clinton,former President of IrelandMary McAleese,US Secretary of StateHillary Clinton,former Speaker of the United States House of RepresentativesNancy Pelosi,football managers SirAlex FergusonandBrendan Rodgers,poetSeamus Heaney,writersSeamus Deane,Brian Friel,Frank McGuinnessandColm Tóibín,activistsMay BloodandAung San Suu Kyi,actorsAmanda BurtonandEwan McGregor,racehorse trainerVincent O'Brien,bishopsSeán Brady,Robin Eames,James Mehaffey,Edward DalyandDesmond Tutu,singersEnya,Van MorrisonandTommy Makem,politiciansJohn HumeandGarret FitzGerald,politician, writer and historianConor Cruise O'Brien,US lawyer John Connorton, US diplomatJim Lyons,Gaelic footballerPeter Canavan,rugby playerDavid Humphreys,golfersDarren ClarkeandGraeme McDowell,former governor of Hong KongChris Pattenand triple jumperJonathan Edwards.[62]

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Notes

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