Three ‘young’ universities among world’s 100 best

Ireland’s three youngest universities are among the world’s 100 best colleges that are less than 50 years old, says a new ranking.

The placement of NUI Maynooth (NUIM) in 64th, Dublin City University (DCU) at 86th and University of Limerick (UL) in 97th place on the Times Higher Education (THE) league follows the listing of DCU as 46th earlier this week in the QS ranking of top “young” universities.

Tom Boland, chief executive of the Higher Education Authority (HEA), said it is a credit to management, staff and graduates of all three that no other country had all its young universities in the top 100.