University College Dublin - Exchange Programme

About University College Dublin University College Dublin is one of Europe's leading research-intensive universities and is ranked within the top 1% of higher education institutions world-wide. In the 2021 edition of the QS World University Subject Rankings, UCD was named among the best universities globally in the study of 38 subjects.

Its best performance was in Veterinary Science, which was Ireland's highest-ranking programme in this year's listings. Also included in top 50 were three other subject areas at UCD, namely Sports-related Subjects at 34th; Library & Information Management listed at 45th; and Petroleum Engineering at 50th, the same position it held in last year's rankings. Alongside this, the University had eight subject areas ranked in the QS top 100. These were: Agriculture & Forestry, Archaeology, English Language & Literature, History, Nursing, Law, Politics & International Studies, and Philosophy.