Belfast is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, the second-largest on the island of Ireland.
Belfast was a centre of the Irish linen, tobacco processing, rope-making and shipbuilding industries: in the early 20th century, Harland and Wolff, which built the RMS Titanic, was the world’s biggest and most productive shipyard.
Belfast played a key role in the Industrial Revolution and was a global industrial centre until the latter half of the 20th century. It has sustained a major aerospace and missiles industry since the mid 1930s.
Today, Belfast remains a centre for industry, as well as the arts, higher education, business, and law, and is the economic engine of Northern Ireland.
University of Ulster Facts
One of the world’s top 150 universities under 50 years old, Ulster is a young, dynamic and innovative university with a spirit that transforms lives, stretches minds, develops skills and raises ambitions.
Ranked in the top 25% of UK universities for world-leading research based on research power in REF 2014 with 72% of research activity regarded as ‘world-leading’ and ‘internationally excellent’.
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