UCC becomes Ireland’s first ‘five-star’ university

THREE out of four Irish universities have lost ground on their competitors in global rankings, with the exception being University College Cork, which has also become the country’s first five-star university.

While Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin (UCD) and NUI Galway all slipped from their 2010 position, UCC bucked the trend and climbed three places in the QS World University Rankings system, an annual league table of the world’s top 600 universities.

As of today, the survey shows: