University College Dublin

University College Dublin (UCD) - public higher education institution in Ireland.

University College Dublin - Description

University College Dublin For over 150 years, University College Dublin (UCD) has produced graduates of remarkable distinction including famous surgeons, architects, entrepreneurs and five of Ireland?s Taoisigh (Prime Ministers). Perhaps the best known of its graduates is the writer James Joyce who completed his BA at the university. Established in 1854, University College Dublin (UCD) has played a key role in the history of the modern Irish State, and today it plays a leading part in shaping Ireland?s future. As Ireland forges a new identity through relationships with international partners, the university is adopting an increasingly international outlook. To accommodate the university?s phenomenal growth during the 1960s and 1970s, UCD relocated from its original location on St Stephen's Green in Dublin city centre to a 132 hectare campus at Belfield, 4 km from the city centre. The university still maintains one of its original buildings on St Stephen?s Green, and there is also a campus facility at Blackrock, County Dublin where the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business is located. UCD has recently published a new campus development plan to chart the physical evolution of the Belfield campus for the next decade. This plan includes a vision for world... Established in 1854 by John Henry Newman, UCD is now ranked among Europe’s leading research-intensive universities. UCD and its graduates have played an unparalleled role in the development of modern Ireland, with many of Ireland’s leading political, artistic, sporting and professional figures numbered amongst its alumni, including UCD’s most famous graduate James Joyce. UCD today is the university of first choice for more school leavers than any other Irish university, is the national leader in research funding and has a truly global footprint. Its strong undergraduate degrees in the humanities, social sciences, science and agriculture are complemented by world class professional programmes in medicine, veterinary medicine, engineering, law and business (including UCD Smurfit School – Ireland’s leading business school). UCD has Ireland’s largest cohort of international and postgraduate students, including almost 2,000 PhD students. Working in priority research areas such as health and healthcare delivery, informatics computation and communications, earth and environmental sciences, and global Ireland, UCD’s new strategic plan ‘Forming Global Minds’ places special emphasis on the internationalisation of the student experience through the Erasmus programme and Universitas 21 student mobility programme and on the mainstreaming of innovation as the third pillar of university activity alongside teaching and research...