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05/09/2011
UCC Moves Up In Uni World Rankings
University College Cork (UCC) has moved up in the world; improving its position in the QS World Rankings by 205 places in the last six years.
The QS World Rankings place the college at 181, compared to its 386th position in 2006. The University is ranked 100th worldwide by employers.
UCC has around 20,000 students and attracts around 2,800 foreign students.
President Dr Michael Murphy said the ranking system is not too important at home, but is hugely important to overseas students.
Meanwhile Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and University College Dublin (UCD) have continued to slide down in the rankings.
The latest QS rankings – published this morning – show a substantial drop in ranking for most Irish universities.
TCD drops down 13 places to 65; UCD is down 20 places from 114 to 134. NUI Galway suffers the most dramatic fall, down 66 places to 298.
Apart from the success of UCC the new league table comes a blow from most Irish universities.
Two years ago TCD was in the elite top 50 colleges, while UCD was in the top 100. Over the past two years both of Ireland’s leading colleges have lost significant ground.
Trinity Provost Dr Patrick Prendergast said the university continues to compete at the highest international level and is the only university in Ireland to feature in the top 100 despite the decrease in funding of higher education in Ireland.
Dr Prendergast added that the drop in their overall position was to be expected, especially given the decrease in funding levels.
In all, over 33,000 global academics and 16,000 graduate employers were surveyed by QS in the largest survey of its kind. Cambridge is ranked as the leading university in the world for the second consecutive year ahead of Harvard, MIT and Yale .
The QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) rankings are one of the most widely referenced indexes of global university performance. The rankings are based on four pillars: research, teaching, employability and internationalisation.
(LB/BMcC)
The QS World Rankings place the college at 181, compared to its 386th position in 2006. The University is ranked 100th worldwide by employers.
UCC has around 20,000 students and attracts around 2,800 foreign students.
President Dr Michael Murphy said the ranking system is not too important at home, but is hugely important to overseas students.
Meanwhile Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and University College Dublin (UCD) have continued to slide down in the rankings.
The latest QS rankings – published this morning – show a substantial drop in ranking for most Irish universities.
TCD drops down 13 places to 65; UCD is down 20 places from 114 to 134. NUI Galway suffers the most dramatic fall, down 66 places to 298.
Apart from the success of UCC the new league table comes a blow from most Irish universities.
Two years ago TCD was in the elite top 50 colleges, while UCD was in the top 100. Over the past two years both of Ireland’s leading colleges have lost significant ground.
Trinity Provost Dr Patrick Prendergast said the university continues to compete at the highest international level and is the only university in Ireland to feature in the top 100 despite the decrease in funding of higher education in Ireland.
Dr Prendergast added that the drop in their overall position was to be expected, especially given the decrease in funding levels.
In all, over 33,000 global academics and 16,000 graduate employers were surveyed by QS in the largest survey of its kind. Cambridge is ranked as the leading university in the world for the second consecutive year ahead of Harvard, MIT and Yale .
The QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) rankings are one of the most widely referenced indexes of global university performance. The rankings are based on four pillars: research, teaching, employability and internationalisation.
(LB/BMcC)
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