Madina Sharifova, a teenager from Azerbaijan, has graduated from Queen’s University Belfast with First Class Honours.
Borni in Baku, Madina (19) arrived in Belfast aged just 16. Since then, she has won several awards for both her academic and extracurricular endeavours.
Commenting on her experience in Belfast, Madina has said that she has met lots of other international students at Queen’s accommodation and very quickly felt like Belfast was my ‘home away from home’.
Madina won the “First year international student scholarship” for achieving the highest marks among biomedical students, placing her in good stead to graduate with First Class Honours.
She recently won an award at the SU Awards for her voluntary work with the Reading Together programme. The programme, delivered by the University’s Widening Participation Unit, brings together trained Student Mentors with children in care aged 7-10 to help them improve their literacy skills.
Belfast is a public research university in Northern Ireland.
