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The university increased its rank with gains in research impact, international partnerships, and graduate outcomes, improving its position for the third year in a row.
Queen’s employees marking milestone years of continuous service in 2025 were recognized during the annual Celebration of Service dinner and reception, held on Monday, June 16 at Ban Righ Dining Hall.
Principal Patrick Deane and Provost Matthew Evans are pleased to announce the appointment of Ann Tierney as Queen’s next Vice-Provost (Global Engagement). Ms. Tierney will succeed Sandra den Otter, ...
The Interim Vice-Provost will continue to focus on undergraduate enrolment, international recruitment, and admission initiatives.
Queen's University was established on October 16, 1841 in a Royal Charter issued by Queen Victoria. The document was granted after years of effort by the Presbyterians of Upper Canada to found a ...
The School of Business at Queen's traces its origins to the establishment of a commerce program at the university in 1919 - the first such program in Canada and the second in the Commonwealth. The ...
The Department of Biochemistry was founded in 1937 when the family of medical alumna Dr. Agnes Craine funded the construction of the Craine Building, the Department's first home, and endowed the new ...
Queen's main campus is located on roughly 100 acres of land on the southwestern edge of downtown Kingston. Its approximate boundaries are King Street in the south, Earl Street in the north, ...
Queen's became the first university in North America to offer "distance education" in 1889. In that year, the Senate formalized an earlier practice and announced that it would permit arts and science ...
The university achieves a fifth straight global top 10 ranking and the top spot in Canada for advancing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
The Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS) is changing to modular degrees as part of an initiative to give students more flexibility and control over their academic journey. This new structure allows ...
Faculties, departments, and service units at Queen's can use Canto, our centralized digital asset management (DAM) tool, to manage assets related to marketing and communications. Queen's "Image Bank," ...