Trinity College Dublin

Ireland’s Leading University

Ranked 1st in Ireland and 98th in the world*, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, is committed to helping you develop the skills, knowledge and values to become an informed, engaged global citizen in a rapidly changing world.

Since 1592, Trinity has been inspiring generations to meet the challenges of the future. Our beautiful historic campus, based in Dublin city centre, is the 16th most international university in the world.**

*QS World University Ranking 2023

** THE World University Ranking 2023

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98th World Ranking (QS World University Rankings 2023)

16th Most International University in the World

(THE World University Ranking 2023)

Ireland’s Leading University

(QS World University Ranking 2023 and THE World University Ranking 2022)

Ireland has the 3rd highest quality of life in the world

(United Nations Human Development Index 2022)

1592

Year in which Trinity was founded

Trinity is 1st in Europe for producing entrepreneurs for the 7th year in a row

(PitchBook Universities Report 2021)

Technological Universities

• Technological University Dublin (TUD), established in 2019, was Ireland’s first technological university, though its history goes back to 1887 and the City of Dublin technical schools. It grew out of the Dublin Institute of Technology and is the second-largest higher education institution in Ireland, with a student population of 28 500.

• Munster Technological University (MTU) has six campuses and 18 000 students. It was established in 2021 when the Cork Institute of Technology and Institute of Technology, Tralee merged. It is Ireland’s second technological university.

• Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) was established in 2021 when Athlone and Limerick Institutes of Technology merged. It is a public technological university and was the third to be established in Ireland.

• Atlantic Technological University (ATU) became the fourth technological university in Ireland in 2022 when three existing institutes of technology, Galway Mayo, Sligo and Letterkenny, merged.

• South East Technological University (SETU) – 2022. Established out of the merger of Waterford and Carlow Institutes of Technology.

Institutes Of Technology

• Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology was established in 1997 and is focused on art and design. The institution has an emphasis on creative arts and media with the National Film School (NFS) located on campus. Programmes include entrepreneurship, arts and humanities, business, arts management, psychology/cyberpsychology, computing and digital media technology. Emphasis is placed on the convergence of the arts, technology and enterprise. A flagship campus incubation centre, called Media Cube, supports the graduate enterprise development programme and accommodates start-up business in the media and digital media sectors.

• Dundalk Institute of Technology is a small institute of technology, established in 1971, and has an enrollment of 4 500 students. Learn what to expect.

Private Institutions Of Higher Learning

• National College of Ireland (NCI). This private college was founded in 1951 as the Catholic Workers College, Dublin. It is now an autonomous college, offering full and part-time courses from undergraduate to postgraduate level, in psychology, finance, business and computing, among others. NCI has one of the best and most consistent graduate employment records in Ireland. Find out more here

• Griffith College. Established in 1974, this independent institution has campuses in Dublin, Cork and Limerick. It is one of the two largest independent higher education colleges in Ireland, with a student population of around 8 000. The College will mark an important milestone in 2024 when it will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its founding. Many former students have gone on to distinguished careers in Ireland and internationally, in fields as diverse as accountancy, business, computing, design, engineering, law, media, music and drama.

• Dublin Business School (DBS) – 1975 – private college in Dublin with 6 campuses in the city and around 9000 students. Provides full- and parttime undergraduate and postgraduate programs in business, law, accounting, event management, IT, arts, media studies and psychology.

• Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). Founded in 1784, the RCSI is a world-leading health sciences university and the professional training body for surgery in Ireland. It offers a school of medicine (undergraduate and postgraduate), pharmacy and biomolecular sciences, physiotherapy, nursing and midwifery, postgraduate studies, and institutes of leadership and positive psychology and health as well as faculties of dentistry, radiology, and sports-and-exercise medicine.

• Independent College. Since 2007 this specialist contemporary business college on the edge of Dublin’s financial, retail, cultural and technological districts has been combining quality academia with a strong entrepreneurial spirit. Independent College delivers Irish Government, QQI approved, globally-recognised undergraduate and postgraduate programmes with a competitively priced offering. Business and Law are main areas of expertise with specialist Bachelors (Hons) Level 8 degree courses delivered in Accounting & Finance, Business Studies, Marketing and International Business as well as a unique Level 9 Postgraduate Master’s of Arts in Dispute Resolution.