Dublin’s Trinity College remains Ireland’s top college – despite dropping three places in the latest World University Rankings.
The College has dropped back to 120th in a table topped by British institutions Oxford and Cambridge.
The rankings provide specific places for the world’s top 200 – with institutions placed in larger bands for the remaining 800.
NUI Galway has dropped anywhere between 50 and 150 places to find itself somewhere between 301st and 350th – after being ranked between 201st and 250th last year.
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Trinity Dean of Research Professor Linda Doyle said the fact that the college remainis within the top 120 is “testament to the quality of our university.”
She said reduced Government investment in Irish colleges while international initiations are enjoying increased investment has had “a direct impact on the rankings.”
“We have seen an increase in performance across four of the five categories in which we are ranked which is to be welcomed,” she said.
“However, it is a measure of how competitive the field is that better performance on our part is not reflected in the rankings.”
University College Cork and Maynooth University were the only Irish colleges to improve their rankings.
UCC moved up one grouping to find itself somewhere between 301st and 350th in the world – while Maynooth entered the top 400.
UCD and the Royal College of Surgeons both kept their places in the world’s top 250 – ranking between 201st and 250th.
Trinity continues to be Ireland’s leading university, and is the only Irish university to feature in the top 120 universities worldwide in the just-published Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019.
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Dublin City University is still ranked between 401st and 500th while the University of Limerick is ranked between 501st and 600th.
Dublin Institute of Technology has dropped out of the world’s top 800 but remains withing the top 1,000.
