EDUCATION

The country has two universities: Queenís University of Belfast, founded as Queenís College in 1845, and the University of Ulster, with campuses in Coleraine, Belfast, Jordanstown, and Londonderry, was established in 1984 by the merger of the New University of Ulster and Ulster Polytechnic..

The total annual university enrollment in the early 1990s was about 17,000. Two colleges, the Belfast College of Technology (1901) and the Union Theological College (1978), are in Belfast.