University College Dublin tumbles from top 200 in world rankings

The fall of University College Dublin from the top 200 in a prestigious world ranking is slightly offset by improvements of NUI Galway and the Royal College of Surgeons which join it in the top 250.

The performance of Irish institutions in the high-profile Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings have been complicated by the temporary exclusion of a ranking for Trinity College Dublin (TCD).

The publishers said TCD had supplied incorrect financial data — likely due to human error — and the negative effect on some of the 13 indicators used to calculate scores would have “a material impact”.