NUIG leaps ahead of UCC in world university rankings

A big jump for NUI Galway brings a ray of light to an otherwise worrying performance by Irish colleges in the latest major world university league table.

The country’s universities remain outside the top 100 and a number fell in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2014 published tonight.

Highest-placed Trinity College Dublin (TCD) dropped nine places to 138th while University College Dublin (UCD) is now out of the top 200.