The World University Rankings Have Been Revealed… Here’s How Ireland’s Top Colleges Fared

The latest world university rankings have been released this week, and some of Ireland’s top universities took a bit of a tumble down the list. The updated rankings show that while Trinity College Dublin is still Ireland’s highest placed university, the Dublin college has fallen from 71^st place to 78^th place. It is the only Irish university to make the top 100 though. Next Irish university in line is UCD, which has dropped to 154^th place, while UCC has dropped three places down to 233^rd. Ireland's universities (Source: QS) There was good news for NUI Galway, DCU, UL and Maynooth University though, who all rose up the rankings in the new list. Elsewhere, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology topped the list, with the usual suspects of Harvard, Cambridge and Stanford following in its wake.