UCC scores best rating out of Irish third-level institutions

University College Cork has emerged as the country’s top third-level institution in the second release of rankings that aim to give a broad picture of colleges’ strengths and weaknesses.

It received 11 A grades out of 16 categories and sub-headings in which colleges around the world provided data for the U-Multirank system. The result places it in the top 8% of world universities which got more than 10 As, out of more than 1,200 that took part this year.

Dublin City University, University of Limerick, and Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) scored top marks under eight headings. Along with UCC, they received an A for graduation rates from bachelor degrees (under the teaching and learning category) and for publications cited in patents, a heading in the knowledge transfer category.