Thursday, 3 December 2009

University College Dublin






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University College Dublin

For over 150 years, University College Dublin (UCD) has produced graduates of remarkable distinction including famous surgeons, architects, entrepreneurs and five of Ireland’s Taoisigh (Prime Ministers). Perhaps the best known of its graduates is the writer James Joyce who completed his BA at the university. Established in 1854, University College Dublin (UCD) has played a key role in the history of the modern Irish State, and today it plays a leading part in shaping Ireland’s future. As Ireland forges a new identity through relationships with international partners, the university is adopting an increasingly international outlook.

To accommodate the university’s phenomenal growth during the 1960s and 1970s, UCD relocated from its original location on St Stephen's Green in Dublin city centre to a 132 hectare campus at Belfield, 4 km from the city centre. The university still maintains one of its original buildings on St Stephen’s Green, and there is also a campus facility at Blackrock, County Dublin where the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business is located.

UCD has recently published a new campus development plan to chart the physical evolution of the Belfield campus for the next decade. This plan includes a vision for world class architecture, a more than ten-fold increase in the campus boundary woodland and network of pedestrian walkways, and a transformation of the academic infrastructure to reflect the ambitions of a leading European university.

More than 25% of the UCD student population is engaged in graduate research and scholarship. Each of the university’s five colleges has its own dedicated graduate school with the explicit task of enhancing doctoral and post-doctoral training to match the Irish Government’s strategy of establishing Ireland as a premier source of 4th level education and research. University College Dublin is committed to maintaining a high level of research activity, to commercialising intellectual property arising from academic research, and to further enhancing its collaborative links with industry and commerce, and with educational and research institutions across the globe.

UCD was the first Irish university to establish a Vice-President post dedicated to supporting the health and welfare of its student population. To facilitate increasing levels of e-learning, increasing number of resources to support learning and research are electronically available on and off campus. The UCD Bowl - a rugby and soccer stadium with a seating capacity of 1,500, and a national hockey stadium are among the sporting facilities available to students, staff and the wider Dublin community.


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