As Ireland’s largest university, with its great strength and diversity of disciplines, University College Dublin (UCD) embraces its role to contribute to the flourishing of Ireland through the study of people, society, business, economy, culture, languages and the creative arts, as well as through research and innovation.
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Facts & Stats
- Established: 1854
- Number of students: 38,000+
- UCD is Ireland’s largest university with over 343,000 alumni across 184 countries
- UCD has more than 12,000 graduate students, with almost 2,000 postgraduate research students (PhD and research masters)
- UCD is home to 11,500 international students international students from 152 countries
- UCD is ranked 118th in the latest QS World University Rankings (WUR) 2025
- UCD is ranked 47th in the world and 27th in Europe in the 2026 QS World University Rankings for Sustainability
- As well as generations of Irish business, professional, cultural and sporting leaders perhaps the best known of all UCD’s graduates is the writer James Joyce, who completed his Bachelor of Arts at the university in 1902
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