The university provides a broad range of bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. degrees in subjects grouped into 11 faculties (Agriculture, Arts, Celtic Studies, Commerce, Engineering and Architecture, Human Sciences, Interdisciplinary Studies, Law, Medicine, Science, Veterinary Medicine) and 80 departments. Unique in Ireland, UCD is among the few European universities that have the four life science faculties of Agriculture, Medicine, Science and Veterinary Medicine.
UCD traces its origins to the Catholic University of Ireland founded in 1854 by Cardinal John Henry Newman, author of the celebrated “The Idea of a University” and its first rector. Since then the university has played a central role in Ireland’s advancement as a dynamic European state and has established a long and distinguished tradition of service to scholarship and the community. Today, UCD is a vibrant, modern university situated on a spacious and leafy campus three miles south of Dublin city center. For students, both Irish and international, it is a supportive and stimulating environment in which to spend a period of intellectual and personal development.
UCD offers a lively campus community in which to live and study. The university has modern buildings and first-class academic and sporting facilities. It has a busy extracurricular life and students are encouraged to become actively involved in the wide range of social, cultural and sporting activities available. UCD also has comprehensive student support services, including a student health center, student advisors, counseling and careers-advisory facilities. Student accommodation is available for 2,000 students, and assistance is provided by UCD’s International Office to international students who seek off-campus accommodation.
In recent years, UCD has been engaged in the physical expansion of its main Belfield campus, adding a new veterinary school, the Quinn School of Business, which is the first university building in Europe designed with a focus on e-technology and e-learning, the Conway Institute for Biomedical and Biomolecular Research, and the third student village, Glenomena, which has accommodation for 550 students.
UCD today is a research-intensive university striving to advance knowledge through cutting-edge research and to communicate knowledge through excellence in teaching within a creative and collegial environment. Through innovative links in Ireland and abroad, UCD has established exciting research partnerships and collaborations. The value of research contracts recently signed is in excess of