University College Dublin (UCD)

University College Dublin is a member of the National University of Ireland and a public research university in Dublin, Ireland. It is Ireland's largest university, with 33,284 students, and one of the country's top universities. Among UCD's alumni and present and previous personnel are five Nobel Laureates.

UCD is descended from an institution founded in 1854 as the Catholic University of Ireland, which opened on the Feast of Saint Malachy with John Henry Newman as its first rector; it was re-formed in 1880 and chartered in 1908. The constituent university was renamed "National University of Ireland, Dublin" by the Universities Act of 1997, and the institution was renamed "University College Dublin – National University of Ireland, Dublin" by a ministerial decree in 1998.

Originally established on St Stephen's Green in Dublin's city center, all faculties have subsequently moved to Belfield, a 133-hectare campus four kilometers south of the city center. It bought a second location in Blackrock in 1991. The Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School is currently housed here.

Phone: +353 1 716 7777
Fee:

• Domestic tuition 8,958 EUR
• International tuition 23,800 EUR

Address: University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Website: http://www.ucd.ie/