Region : Ontario
City : Kingston
Web site : www.queensu.ca
Queen's University at Kingston (commonly shortened to Queen's University or Queen's) is a public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841 via a royal charter issued by Queen Victoria, the university predates Canada's founding by 26 years. Queen's holds more than 1,400 hectares (3,500 acres) of land throughout Ontario and owns Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England. Queen's is organized into ten undergraduate, graduate and professional faculties and schools.
The Church of Scotland established Queen's College in 1841 with a royal charter from Queen Victoria. The first classes, intended to prepare students for the ministry, were held 7 March 1842 with 13 students and two professors. Queen's was the first university west of the maritime provinces to admit women and to form a student government. In 1883, a women's college for medical education affiliated with Queen's University was established. In 1888, Queen's University began offering extension courses, becoming the first Canadian university to do so. In 1912, Queen's secularized and changed to its present legal name.
Queen's is a co-educational university, with more than 23,000 students, and with over 131,000 living alumni worldwide. Notable alumni include government officials, academics, business leaders and 57 Rhodes Scholars.The university was ranked 4th in Canada by Maclean's University Ranking Guide for 2015, 206th in the 2015?2016 QS World University Rankings, 201?250 in the 2016?2017 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and 201?300 in the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities. Queen's varsity teams, known as the Golden Gaels, compete in the Ontario University Athletics conference of U Sports.
Queen's is a publicly funded research university, and a member of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada. The full-time undergraduate programs comprise the majority of the school's enrolment, made up of 16,339 full-time undergraduate students. In 2009 the two largest programs by enrolment were the social sciences, with 3,286 full-time and part-time students, followed by engineering, with 3,097 full-time and part-time students. The university conferred 3,232 bachelor's degrees, 153 doctoral degrees, 1,142 master's degrees, and 721 first professional degrees in 2008?2009.
Queen's University has consistently been ranked one of Canada's top universities. The 2016?2017 QS World University Rankings ranked the university 223rd in the world, and the tenth in Canada. In the 2016 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) rankings, the university ranked 201?300th in the world and ranked 8?16 in Canada. The 2016?2017 Times Higher Education World University Rankings placed Queen's 201?250th in the world. In terms of national rankings, Maclean's ranked Queen's 4th in their 2017 Medical Doctoral university rankings, and 6th in terms of reputation nationally. Queen's University Faculty of Law was ranked third nationally in Maclean's 2013 rankings for common law schools in Canada.
The Queen's School of Business has received significant recognition in the past years. The School of Business placed 48th in the world, in the 2012 Business Insiders business school rankings. In Eduniversal's 2012 ranking of business schools, the School of Business was rated as a 5 palmes business school, placing the school 37th globally, and fourth nationally.In the 2011 edition of Mines ParisTech's evaluation of universities, The School of Business was also found to have the most number of graduates employed as Chief Executive Officers (or equivalent) in a Fortune Global 500, out of any university in Canada, and 38th globally. Queen's had also ranked 90th in the world, and first in Canada in the 2013 Times Higher Education Alma Mater Index, which ranks institutions by the number of degrees they have awarded to CEOs of Fortune Global 500 companies. In an employability survey published by the New York Times in October 2011, when CEOs and chairpersons were asked to select the top universities which they recruited from, the university placed 74th in the world, and fifth in Canada. In Bloomberg L.P.'s 2014 rankings of business schools, the school ranked second in Canada, and 10th out of all business schools outside the United States.
The full-time MBA program at Queen's has also received significant recognition. In Bloomberg's 2014 rankings of MBA programmes outside the United States, the school was ranked ninth, and second in Canada. The QS ranking of North American MBA programs placed the School of Business 16th in North America, and 3rd in Canada. In the Financial Times rankings on EMBA programs, Queen's joint degree business programs with Cornell University's Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management was ranked 45th in the world. In the same rankings, the Financial Times ranked the Queen's School of Business's individual EMBA program 92nd in the world, and fourth in Canada. The Queen's Economics Department is ranked first in Canada and 24th in the world based on the publication records of its graduate students.
In Research Infosource's 2011 ranking of Canada's 50 top research universities, Queen's ranked 11th, with sponsored research income of $197.016 million. With an average of $237,900 per faculty member, Queen's ranked Canada's sixth most research-intensive university. The federal government is the largest funding source, providing 49.8 percent of Queen's research budget, primarily through grants. Corporations contribute another 26.3 percent of the research budget. In terms of research performance, High Impact Universities 2010 ranked Queen's 185th out of 500 universities. The Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT), an organization which evaluates universities based on the performance of scientific papers, ranked Queen's 272nd.
The university operates six research centres and institutes, the Centre for Neuroscience Studies, GeoEngeering Centre, High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory, Human Mobility Research Centre, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Institute, and the Southern African Research Centre. The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory's director, Arthur B. McDonald, is a member of the university's physics department. The observatory managed the SNO experiment, which demonstrated that the solution to the solar neutrino problem was that neutrinos change flavour (type) as they propagate through the Sun. The SNO experiment proved that a non-zero mass neutrino exists. This was a major breakthrough in cosmology. A research paper published on 17 October 2013 has offered new perspectives on the star death. These astronomers believe that "the brightest exploding stars, called super-luminous supernovae, are powered by magnetars?small and incredibly dense neutron stars, with gigantic magnetic fields. In October 2015, Arthur B. McDonald and Takaaki Kajita (University of Tokyo) jointly received the Nobel Prize in Physics for illustration of neutrino change identities and identification of mass. This is the first Nobel Prize awarded to a Queen's University researcher. In 1976 urologist Alvaro Morales, along with his colleagues, developed the first clinically effective immunotherapy for cancer by adapting the Bacille Calmette-Guérin tuberculosis vaccine for treatment of early stage bladder cancer.
Queen's University has a joint venture with McGill University, operating an academic publishing house known as the McGill-Queen's University Press. It publishes original peer-reviewed and books in all areas of the social sciences and humanities. While the press's emphasis is on providing an outlet for Canadian authors and scholarship, the press also publishes authors throughout the world. The press has over 2,800 books in print. The publishing house was known as the McGill University Press in 1963 prior to it amalgamating with Queen's in 1969.
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