TRINITY College, Dublin, has finally broken into the international university elite.
According to the latest international league tables (THES), Trinity is now ranked the 12th best university in Europe, and 53rd in the world.
But it's not the only good news for Irish universities. UCD has also improved its ranking to 177th this year, while UCC leaped 100 places to 286th and DCU jumped from 441 to 300th place.
And Trinity was last night celebrating on the double.
Not alone has its overall status strengthened but it has also come second in global immunology research. The country has been ranked behind Switzerland and ahead of the USA in third place, according to 'Lab Times'.
However, it was the results of the 'Times Higher Education Supplement' (THES) table that caused most delight. The THES is one of the two most influential ranking systems, along with the Shanghai Jiaotong University. The supplement has refined and improved its method of scoring the colleges.
This year, Trinity has overtaken prestigious institutions such as the London School of Economics, the University of Washington and St Andrew's in Scotland.
There were smaller rises for the University of Limerick and DIT, but the National University of Ireland Maynooth and the University of Ulster failed to make the cut of the top 500 in the world.
The top 10 in the world are based in either the USA or the UK as follows: Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, Yale, Imperial College London, Princeton, California Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, University College, London, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
It is based on a survey of academics worldwide and on findings such as the number of citations of academic work.
Martin Ince, contributing editor of the THES, said last night: "These are the most thorough rankings we have compiled, with improved methods and more data than ever.
Sources said that the improved investment in research was paying off as it was leading to more citations of the university's work in international journals and also to improved ratings among academics working in other institutions.
The other criteria used are recruiter review and the ratios of international students, as well as the institution's staff and staff-student ratios. |
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