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The Canadian Institute of Guided Ground Transport was established in 1970 under the jurisdiction of Queen's University, and with the strong participation and support of the Canadian Transport Commission, Canadian National and Canadian Pacific. The aims of the Institute were "to provide integrated interdisciplinary research to meet the long-term needs of Canadian guided ground transportation, and to increase the supply of graduates who have knowledge of and interest in transportation systems." All members of the Institute formed the Council. In 1973, the Board membership consisted of the Executive Director; three members not affiliated with the Institute as appointed by University Senate; three from the Council, one of whom was elected, and two of whom were to be University staff selected by the Principal; and one each appointed by the Government of Canada, Canadian National and Canadian Pacific.
The Institute ceased operations in 1994.

The Bader International Study Centre (BISC) is located on the historic 200-hectare Herstmonceux Castle estate in East Sussex, U.K. The estate was donated to Queen's in 1993 by Queen's alumnus Dr. Alfred Bader and his wife, Dr. Isabel Bader. After extensive renovations to the moated 15th century castle (which housed the Royal Greenwich Observatory earlier in the century), the BISC now offers an ideal setting for an innovative undergraduate program in experimental international learning that involves extensive use of integrated field study activities, both in the British Isles, and in continental Europe. While the BISC is owned and operated by Queen's, its award-winning programs are offered in conjunction with a consortium of top-ranking Canadian universities that includes The University of British Columbia, University of Victoria, Dalhousie University and Huron University College. The BISC provides a unique First-Year Program (offering selected first-year Queen's courses in the arts, humanities, languages, and social sciences), an Upper-Year Program (which in addition, offers Queen's courses in Commerce and Law), and an academically enhanced ESL Plus Program for international students. The BISC campus includes Herstmonceux Castle (housing classroom, conference, computing, library, study, and dining facilities), Bader Hall (a modern three-story residence for students, faculty, and guests), formal Elizabethan gardens, and an extensive wooded medieval park. While the academic programs are the central focus of activities in the fall, winter and spring terms, the BISC also serves during the spring and summer months as a conference centre for academic and business gatherings, as well as a bed and breakfast facility for visitors.

Queen's University at Kingston has one of the oldest and most comprehensive university athletics programs in Canada. The program dates from 1860, when a local military man, Colonel Angus Cameron, persuaded the University's Board of Trustees to set up a small gym in Summerhill, located on the Queen's campus, with "vaulting cross-bars, ladder ropes, and a few other items." Cameron was careful to request that the gym be "retired from jeering spectators," an indication of the low esteem in which athletics were held in the mid-19th century. The first organized sports were annual track and field competitions held on October 16, University Day, at which students competed for prizes offered by the people of Kingston. These competitions, which began in the early 1870's, included the traditional Scottish caber toss, and were a major University event until early this century. The first team sport appears to have been soccer (then called football), which also made its debut in the early 1870's. Later in the decade, a form of "Association Football [i.e. soccer] with catching" appeared on campus – a distant predecessor of modern football. A closer relative, rugby football, was introduced in 1882 by two brothers who brought the English rules of the game down from their home in Ottawa. Snowshoeing and curling were the most popular winter sports before the emergence of hockey in 1886. Sports were initially restricted to male students, but there was a women's hockey team in action as early as 1894, and, before the construction of Queen's first gymnasium building in 1907, women had their own small gym on the top floor of Theological Hall. By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Queen's had become a national powerhouse in sports. The men's hockey team appeared in three Stanley Cup finals around the turn of the century (losing all three) and the football team won three consecutive Grey Cups in the early 1920s.

Under the guidance of Queen's University Athletics and Physical Education, latterly known as Queen's University Athletics and Recreation, Queen's sports programmes have grown steadily this century, guided by a desire to allow the maximum possible participation by students. The programme is now one of the broadest in the country. It has two main components: Interuniversity sports and Intramural sports. The Interuniversity programme has more than 40 men's and women's teams in 25 sports, most of which compete in the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) organization, or the Ontario Women's Intercollegiate Athletics Association (OWIAA). The Intramural programme is divided into three sections: Bews, or the men's league, named after James Bews, the University's "physical training" director from 1908 to 1937; the Women's Intramural Committee (commonly known as WIC), or the women's league; and the co-ed BEWIC league. Students compete on teams drawn from their course of study and/or academic year in about 30 different sports, ranging from hockey and basketball to innertube water polo and horseshoes. The entire University athletics program is supervised by the Queen's University Council on Athletics, which reports to the University Senate.