Ninth Level Ireland

“By any measure the Irish third level sector is in financial crisis and students are being shortchanged. In the near-decade since the recession, Irish universities and institutes of technology have suffered significantly. No Irish university appears in the Times Higher Education top 100, published last month …” (more)

[Tom Felle, Irish Times, 3 November]

“Universities that are looking to improve their position in global rankings might make efforts to increase their research output or boost their student-to-staff ratio. But such institutions could be better off simply relocating close to an international airport, suggest the findings of a study …” (more)

[Ellie Bothwell, Times Higher Education, 18 October]

“UCD Smurfit School’s executive part-time Master of Business Administration (MBA) course has risen 15 places to be ranked 74th in the world. The Financial Times top 100 global executive MBA ranking, published Monday, ranks the Smurfit school as the 35th best in Europe and makes it the only Irish institution on the list …” (more)

[Peter Hamilton, Irish Times, 16 October]

“Six institutes of technology have been well placed in a world ranking of top third-level science and technology colleges. They have been given top scores under a range of headings seeking to measure colleges under broad headings of teaching and learning, research, knowledge transfer and international orientation …” (more)

[Niall Murray, Irish Examiner, 13 October]

Rankings are compiled on the basis of Leaving Cert points, Research income, Graduate Employment, Proportion of 1sts/2.1s, Student-Staff ratio, Progression and Services spending. Brackets indicate the 2016 ranking.

1. Trinity (1)
2. University College Cork (2)
3. University College Dublin (3)
4. NUI Galway (5)
5. Limerick (6)
6. Dublin City University (4)
7. Dublin IT (7)
8. Athlone IT (10)
9. Maynooth (8)
10. Cork IT (9)
11. Dundalk IT (13)
12. Waterford IT (11)
13. IT Tralee (14)
14. IT Sligo (12)
15. Galway-Mayo IT (16)
16. Letterkenny IT (17)
17. Limerick IT (15)
18. IT Carlow (20)
19. IT Tallaght (19)
20. IADT (18)
21. IT Blanchardstown (21)

“NUI Galway has been named ‘University of the Year 2018’ in the Sunday Times University Guide.It is the third time the institution has won the accolade, having won the inaugural title in 2002 and again in 2009 …” (more)

[BreakingNews.ie, 6 October]

“Letterkenny Institute of Technology has been named as runner up in the prestigious Sunday Times Institute of Technology of the Year 2017. The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018 has listed LYIT as runner up with Athlone Institute of Technology winner …” (more)

[Highland Radio, 6 October]

“Not all university league tables are as sane and rational as others. Ahead of the publication of this year’s Sunday Times ranking (you can see last year’s here) and this conference to mark the 10th anniversary of the Complete University Guide, both of which are serious landmarks in the cycle of the proper business of university rankings, I thought it would be helpful to highlight some of the also rans …” (more)

[Paul Greatrix, Wonkhe, 19 September]

“Sir, – I read with great interest the views of John Kelly, professor emeritus, about the attention given to university rankings (September 7th). He is of course completely right. Many international rankings of universities focus so heavily on the institutions’ research output that they fail to capture the many other, equally important dimensions of their work …” (more)

[Gerry Kiely, Irish Times, 15 Sepember]

“Trinity College Dublin has climbed several places in the world university rankings in arts and humanities subjects. Trinity was the only Irish university to make the top one hundred, ranked at 81, up from 88th last year. Trinity was ranked in a group of 400 institutions globally in the arts and humanities fields …” (more)

[Jennifer Duggan, Irish Times, 13 September]

“Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) global higher education analysts and career advice specialists have announced the world’s 500 leading universities for graduate employability. The rankings indicate that University College Dublin (UCD) is the strongest provider of highly employable graduates. It ranks 75th and is followed by Trinity College Dublin (TCD) at 111-120 …” (more)

[Sarah Meehan, Trinity News, 11 September]

“Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Research and Development James Lawless TD says the publication of the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings highlights the need for a greater emphasis to be placed on developing Ireland’s third level research sector …” (more)

[Fianna Fáil, 7 September]

“Sir, – The advent over this past decade of world university rankings is the most unhelpful and damaging intrusion into the international world of higher education (‘Trinity College climbs up global university rankings’, News, September 6th). The predominant criterion of these rankings is the performance of the university in research, as measured by its research publications in international academic journals …” (more)

[John Kelly, Irish Times, 7 September]

“Trinity College Dublin has climbed several places in the Times Higher Education world university rankings for 2018. Brexit means ‘great opportunities’ for Ireland’s universities, most of which have maintained their places in the rankings, but they need more funding to maintain their global standing, according to Times Higher Education (THE) rankings director Phil Baty …” (more)

[Mary Carolan, Irish Times, 5 September]

“Trinity College Dublin has climbed 14 places in the World University Rankings, and is now rated as 117th best in the world in the Times Higher Education list published today. It is Ireland’s only representative in the top 200, with NUI Galway, UCD and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland ranked between 201 and 250 …” (more)

[TheJournal.ie, 5 September]

“The 2018 annual global ranking list of universities issued by the Times Higher Education (THE) has placed Queen’s University in the world’s top 250. The rankings are considered the authoritative breakdown of where universities place internationally …” (more)

[Belfast Telegraph, 5 September]

“British universities have taken the top two places in global league tables for the first time in 13 years, with Oxford University crowned the best in the world …” (more)

[Rachael Pells, Independent, 5 September]

“Trinity has had a tumultuous time with university rankings. Last year, because of an error that saw it state its annual income as just €355, it found itself excluded from the listings produced by Times Higher Education, which are widely considered the most prestigious.When it was eventually reinstated in February, it was revealed that it had fallen more than 30 places, to 131st in the world …” (more)

[University Times, 3 September]

“Universitas 21 (U21) produces an annual ranking not of universities but of 50 national university systems. There are 25 criteria grouped in four categories, resources, connectivity, environment and output. There is also an overall league table …” (more)

[University Ranking Watch, 14 August]

“Hobsons, the education technology company, has produced a ranking of global university rankings. The information provided is very limited and I hope there will be more in a while …” (more)

[University Ranking Watch, 2 August]