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The School of Mining and Agriculture, established in 1893, was designed to provide Queen's with an engineering faculty. The provincial government was not permitted to provide Queen's with any funding as long as it was a denominational university, which it remained until 1912. But Principal George Munro Grant, and Premier Oliver Mowat (son of one of Queen's founders and brother of one of its senior professors), got around this technicality by establishing the provincially-supported School as an independent institution. Sharing the newly-built Carruthers Hall, as well as its professors with Queen's Faculty of Applied Science, that latter was deliberately founded at the same time.

The School of Mining and Agriculture opened in 1893, and the faculty was created in 1894, with Nathan Dupuis as its first Dean. There was some dispute about what to name the new faculty, and, although it was officially called the Faculty of Applied Science, it was usually referred to as the Faculty of Practical Science (then the most common term elsewhere) in its early years. The School of Mining vanished from the campus scene in 1916, when it and the faculty united to become the Faculty of Applied Science. In 1993, the Faculty celebrated its Centennial Anniversary.

After Arts and Science, the Faculty of Applied Science is the second largest on campus, with close to 4600 students at the undergraduate level. Its students have long been known for their boisterous faculty spirit and are easily identified on campus by their dyed purple leather jackets.

In March 2010, and upon the formal approval of the University Senate, the name of the Faculty of Applied Science was changed to the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. In the words of the Dean, Kimberley Woodhouse, "by including [the word] 'Engineering' in our name, we more accruately reflect what we do and who we are."

Queen's first Faculty of Education was founded in 1907, but closed in 1920, when the training of teachers in Ontario was centralized in Toronto. The present Faculty dates from 1965, when the province approved the Duncan McArthur College of Education, a Queen's-affiliated college. Named after a former head of the University's Department of History, who became Ontario's Minister of Education, the College registered its first 40 students in the 1968-1969 academic year, under the Deanship of Queen's alumnus Vernon Ready. By 1971, the college had been renamed the Faculty of Education in order to clarify its relationship with Queen's, and had moved to its present home in Duncan McArthur Hall, located at the University's West Campus. The Faculty trains students as teachers in all school subjects and for all levels from Kindergarten to high school. There is also a Concurrent Education (ConEd) program, which combines teacher training with regular undergraduate studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, or at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. The Faculty also offers several alternative education programs: Aboriginal Teacher Education; Artist in Community Education; Continuing Teacher Education; the Cooperative Program in Outdoor and Experiential Education. The Faculty also operates the Queen's School of English, who offers non-credit courses in English as a second language.

This Faculty traces its origins to Queen's Royal Charter of 1841, which declared that the University would both train students as Presbyterian ministers and instruct youth "in the various branches in Science and Literature." In the University's first 30 or 40 years, however, there was no hard and fast distinction between arts and theology, and professors taught in both faculties.
Queen's first two professors, the Rev Thomas Liddell and the Rev Peter Colin Campbell, initiated the Arts and Science curriculum with courses in three subjects: Classics, Mathematics, and Natural Philosophy (the Victorian term for Natural Science). By the end of the 19th century, the faculty also offered courses in Chemistry, English, French, German, History, Philosophy, Physics, Political and Economic Science (since divided into Economics and Political Studies), and Psychology.
Today, the Faculty offers a broad range of undergraduate degree programs in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, fine arts, and languages.

QUFA is the exclusive bargaining agent for all faculty, librarians, and archivists at Queen's University and Queen's Theological College. From its founding in 1951 until 1995 QUFA was a non-unionized Faculty Association organized by the professorate to protect collective and individual rights, with librarians and archivists joining in 1977. In November 1995, the majority of faculty as well as professional librarians and archivists at Queen's were organized by QUFA into a collective bargaining unit under the Ontario Labour Relations Board. In May 2003 QUFA added a second bargaining unit, called Sessional Adjuncts, who teach either individually or jointly for pay. With only a very few exceptions, all Queen's University faculty were automatically members of one of the two bargaining units. In July 2007, the two bargaining units amalgamated to form one bargaining unit. The definition of individuals who are included in the bargaining unit is available on QUFA's website in Article 1 of the Collective Agreement 2008-2011. In April 2009 QUFA became a multi-employer union when it added a bargaining unit comprising academic staff at Queen's School of Religion (QSR). In the spring of 2012, QSR became part of Queen's University and those members joined the main unit to form a single bargaining unit of Faculty, Librarians and Archivists (FLA).

Physical Plant Services, formerly known as Campus Engineering Services, was established in 1995. In early 2021, it was rebranded as Facilities. It is responsible for the construction, operation and maintenance of the University buildings, grounds and infrastructure. It also supplies a wide variety of services (heat, water, gas, oil, and sewage) to the University, as well as steam heat to three local hospitals and most campus residences. It reports to the Vice Principal (Finance and Administration).

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