National University of Ireland, Galway enjoys an excellent national reputation for teaching and research. It was conferred the Sunday Times University of the Year Award for the third time in 2018 Founded in 1845 as one of three queen’s Colleges established in Belfast, Cork and Galway, the National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway, enjoys an excellent national and international reputation for teaching and research. It was conferred University of the Year award of the highly reputed Sunday Times University Guide for the third time in 2018 (previously in 2002 and 2009). In the latest QS World University Rankings 2018, National University of Ireland, Galway is ranked #243 worldwide, and its faculties of nursing, English language and literature, medicine, geography and earth and marine sciences are ranked among the world’s Top 100-200. It’s also ranked Ireland’s top university for graduate employability with 96 percent of students employed or in further studies within six months of graduation. Since it admitted its first batch of 68 students 173 years ago in three faculties — arts, medicine and law — National University of Ireland, Galway has come a long way. Currently, its five colleges offer undergrad and postgraduate programmes in over 60 academic disciplines to 18,000 including 3,000 students from 115 countries mentored by 2,500 faculty. In recent years, the university has developed internationally renowned centres of excellence in several study disciplines including Irish studies, child and family research, film and digital media, human rights, biomedical engineering, semantic web technology, environmental and marine sciences. Among the unique study programmes it offers include a B.Sc in podiatry (study of professional care and treatment of foot disorders) and BE/ME in sports and exercise engineering. Moreover the university has signed foreign collaboration agreements with 120 top-ranked universities worldwide, including IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Delhi and IISc, Bangalore in India. Famous National University of Ireland, Galway alumni include Enda Kenny, former prime minister of Ireland; Emily Anderson, well-known linguist; physicist Alexander Anderson; and Hollywood actor Martin Sheen. Galway. Sited on the west coast of Ireland, Galway is a college town with students comprising 20 percent of the city’s 80,000 population. Acknowledged as the country’s cultural capital, this harbour city hosts several internationally renowned music and cultural festivals including Cork World Book, Kilkenny Arts, Jameson Dublin International Film, Galway International Arts and the Lismore Immrama Festival of Travel Writing. Moreover, Galway is a global hub of the medical technology industry with eight of the world’s Top 10 med-tech companies based here. Galway is two hours by road from Dublin airport. It has a temperate climate with temperatures lowest in January (5°C) and highest in July (15°C). Campus facilities. Sited on the banks of the river Corrib, the university’s 260-acre campus houses over 90 buildings featuring state-of-the-art classrooms, seminar halls, laboratories, residential and sports facilities. The campus landmark is the Quadrangle building, constructed in 1849 with local limestone in the Tudor Gothic architectural style, and modelled on Christ Church College, Oxford. Other historical buildings include the James Mitchell Museum (1952) housing fossils and…
