Queen's College
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Queen's College, Queens' College or Queens College is the name of more than one institution, typically in the United Kingdom or its former colonies and dependencies.
Most widely known Queens Colleges:
Other Colleges within universities:
Schools:
University:
Universities founded as "Queen's College":
† Part of the historical Queen's Colleges
of Ireland.
Most widely known Queens Colleges:
- Queens College, City University of New YorkQueens College, City University of New YorkQueens College, located in Flushing, Queens, New York City, is one of the senior colleges of the City University of New York. It is also the fifth oldest of the City University's twenty-three institutions of higher learning. The college's seventy seven acre campus is located in the heart of the...
, United States - Queens' College, CambridgeQueens' College, CambridgeQueens' College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou , and refounded in 1465 by Elizabeth Woodville...
, University of Cambridge, England - The Queen's College, OxfordThe Queen's College, OxfordThe Queen's College, founded 1341, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Queen's is centrally situated on the High Street, and is renowned for its 18th-century architecture...
, University of Oxford, England
Other Colleges within universities:
- Queen's College (University of Melbourne)Queen's College (University of Melbourne)Queen's College is a residential College affiliated with the University of Melbourne providing accommodation to 220 students who are attending the University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts, RMIT University and Monash University's Victorian College of Pharmacy.In addition to the...
, Australia - Queen's College, Newfoundland at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Schools:
- Queen's College (Barbados)Queen's College (Barbados)Queen's College was established as a result of the recommendation of an Education Commission whose report suggested that Barbados required a first grade school for girls...
- Husbands, Saint James, Barbados - Queen's College, BirminghamQueen's College, BirminghamThe Birmingham Medical School was founded by surgeon William Sands Cox in 1828 as a residential college for medical students in central Birmingham, England. It was the first Birmingham institution to award degrees, through the University of London. Cox went on to found the Queen's Hospital in Bath...
, defunct, a predecessor of Queens College, Edgbaston and also a parent institution of the University of Birmingham - Queen's College, Edgbaston, a theological college in Birmingham, England
- Queen's College, Edinburgh, a college in Edinburgh, Scotland, known of in early nineteenth century - now closed
- Queen's College, GuyanaQueen's College, GuyanaQueen's College is the top secondary school in Guyana;Situated at the South-Easterly Junction of Camp Street and Thomas Lands. Alumni can enter the school through the National Grade Six Assessment and at the Lower 6th Form Level if the academic performance of the student at the Caribbean Secondary...
- Queen's College, Hong KongQueen's College, Hong KongQueen's College , initially named The Government Central School in 1862, later renamed as Victoria College in 1889, is a sixth form college for boys with a secondary school attached. It was the first public secondary school founded in Hong Kong by the British colonial government...
, the first government school in Hong Kong - Queen's College, LondonQueen's College, LondonQueen's College is an independent school for girls aged 11–18. It is located in central London at numbers 43-49, Harley Street. Founded in 1848 by F. D. Maurice, Professor of English Literature and History at King's College London along with a committee of patrons, the College was the first...
, England, the first school to give academic qualifications to women in Great Britain and the Commonwealth - Queen's College, NassauQueen's College, NassauQueen's College, also known as Q.C, is amongst the most prestigious and elite independent, co-educational institutions in The Bahamas. Founded in 1890, Queen's College is the oldest private school in the Bahamas and boasts a rather rich and diverse history...
, Bahamas - Queen's College, TauntonQueen's College, TauntonQueen's College is a co-educational independent school located in Taunton, the county town of Somerset, England. It is a day/boarding school for children aged 2–18. The school incorporates Nursery, Pre-Prep, Junior and Senior schools. The current headmaster of the Senior School is Chris Alcock...
, England - Queen's College, Lagos, Nigeria
- Queen's College (South Africa)Queen's College (South Africa)Queen's College is situated at the foot of the picturesque Stormberg Mountains in the pleasant Eastern Cape town of Queenstown. Established in 1858, it is the oldest school on the Border - a region famous for its fine schools...
, Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
University:
- Queens University of CharlotteQueens University of CharlotteQueens University of Charlotte is a private, co-educational, comprehensive university located in Charlotte, North Carolina. The school has approximately 2,600 undergraduate and graduate students through the College of Arts and Sciences, the McColl School of Business, the Wayland H. Cato, Jr. School...
, North Carolina, USA
Universities founded as "Queen's College":
- Queen's UniversityQueen's UniversityQueen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England...
, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (1841–1877) - Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland (1845–1908)†
- University College Cork, Republic of Ireland (1845–1908)†
- University of DundeeUniversity of DundeeThe University of Dundee is a university based in the city and Royal burgh of Dundee on eastern coast of the central Lowlands of Scotland and with a small number of institutions elsewhere....
, Dundee, Scotland, (1954–1967) (from 1881 to 1954 it was University College, Dundee) - National University of Ireland, GalwayNational University of Ireland, GalwayThe National University of Ireland, Galway is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland...
, Republic of Ireland (1845–1908)† - Rutgers UniversityRutgers UniversityRutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA (1766–1825)
† Part of the historical Queen's Colleges
Queen's University of Ireland
The Queen's University of Ireland was established formally by Royal Charter on 3 September 1850, as the degree-awarding university of the Queen's Colleges of Belfast, Cork, and Galway that were established in 1845 "to afford a university education to members of all religious denominations" in...
of Ireland.