Graduate jobs record helps university top rankings

THE highest research income and an almost perfect jobs record for graduates has helped National University of Ireland Maynooth to the top of the pile in a ranking of the country’s seven universities.

The Kildare college has been named 2008 Irish University of the Year by the Sunday Times in its annual university guide, published in the newspaper tomorrow. The guide reveals that NUI Maynooth attracts more research income per academic than any other university, and has a graduate employment record of almost 100%.

The choice was also based on NUI Maynooth’s record on encouraging access to groups normally excluded from third level education, according to the guide’s editor Ian Coxon.