St Mary's University College Belfast

Name

St Mary's University College Belfast

Legal name

St Mary's University College

Website

https://smucb.ac.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1900

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Higher Education

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113), Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (611310)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Religiously Affiliated Liberal Arts Colleges (EDAHACAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Graduate Schools of Education (M.Ed., Ed.D., Ph.D.) (EDAHAFAB)

Keywords

• Teacher education programs
• Higher education courses
• Liberal arts degrees
• Postgraduate certificates
• Professional development training

Headquarters

HQ city

Belfast

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Tuition Fees: Revenue generated from student tuition fees for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes including BEd, BA Liberal Arts, MEd, MSc, and PGCE courses.

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

St Mary's University College Belfast is a faith-based higher education institution that delivers teacher education and liberal arts programmes. It offers Bachelor of Education (BEd) degrees in Primary and Post-Primary subjects, a BA Liberal Arts degree, and postgraduate qualifications including MEd, MSc, and PGCE Irish Medium. Programmes are delivered on-campus in Belfast and supplemented by an international summer school and study-abroad exchanges.

Product overview

St Mary's University College Belfast is a higher education institution offering a unified portfolio of teacher education and liberal arts programs. The core offerings consist of BEd Primary and BEd Post-Primary undergraduate programs (with multiple subject specializations), BA Liberal Arts degree, and postgraduate programs including Master of Education (MEd), Master of Science (MSc), and PGCE certificates. Supporting services include Research-informed Teaching, Writing Centre, and Widening Access programs. The institution specializes in Irish-medium education and professional development for educators.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• BEd Primary

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Mary Immaculate College: Irish Catholic college of education and liberal arts in Limerick. Closely comparable as a specialist Catholic teacher education and liberal arts institution with PGCE and BEd offerings.
• Liverpool Hope University: Faith-based UK university with a strong education faculty offering BEd, PGCE, and liberal arts programmes. Closely comparable in scale, faith-based mission, and integrated teacher education/liberal arts offering.
• St Mary's University, Twickenham: UK Catholic university college with a strong teacher education tradition and liberal arts portfolio. Highly comparable in faith-based ethos, programme mix (BEd, PGCE, BA Liberal Arts, MEd), and institutional scale.
• Stranmillis University College: The other specialist teacher education college in Belfast, offering BEd and PGCE programmes. Directly comparable in size, mission, and geography to St Mary's, serving the same Northern Ireland teacher training market.
• University of Wales Trinity Saint David: Faith-affiliated Welsh university with education and liberal arts programmes. Comparable in denominational heritage, integrated liberal arts offering, and focus on teacher training in a UK region.

Broad incumbents

• University of Glasgow: Major UK research university with a long-established School of Education offering BEd, PGCE, and MEd. Represents the larger-scale, research-led end of the teacher training market that competes for postgraduate education students.
• Queen's University Belfast: Belfast-based research university with a much broader portfolio including education degrees. Competes for the same NI undergraduate applicants while also offering PGCE pathways, but on a much larger scale.
• Ulster University: NI's other major university with multiple campuses and education programmes. Overlaps directly with St Mary's in BEd/PGCE provision but operates at significantly larger scale across Northern Ireland.
• Froebel College (University College Dublin): Ireland's largest university hosts Froebel College, the historic specialist primary teacher training provider. Comparable in mission (Catholic ethos, primary teacher education) but embedded within a much larger research university.

Regional players

• St Angela's College, Sligo (ATU): Formerly a Catholic teacher education college, now part of Atlantic Technological University in Ireland. Comparable in faith-based teacher education heritage, but serves the Republic of Ireland market rather than Northern Ireland.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/StMarysBelfast
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/school/15092708/admin/feed/posts
• Instagraminstagram.com/stmarysuniversitycollege
• Xx.com/StMarys_Belfast

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

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