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Courses
Courses
Choosing a course is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make! View our courses and see what our students and lecturers have to say about the courses you are interested in at the links below.
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University Life
University Life
Each year more than 4,000 choose NUI Galway as their University of choice. Find out what life at NUI Galway is all about here.
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About NUI Galway
About NUI Galway
Since 1845, NUI Galway has been sharing the highest quality teaching and research with Ireland and the world. Find out what makes our University so special – from our distinguished history to the latest news and campus developments.
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Colleges & Schools
Colleges & Schools
NUI Galway has earned international recognition as a research-led university with a commitment to top quality teaching across a range of key areas of expertise.
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Research & Innovation
Research & Innovation
NUI Galway’s vibrant research community take on some of the most pressing challenges of our times.
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Business & Industry
Guiding Breakthrough Research at NUI Galway
We explore and facilitate commercial opportunities for the research community at NUI Galway, as well as facilitating industry partnership.
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Alumni, Friends & Supporters
Alumni, Friends & Supporters
There are over 90,000 NUI Galway graduates Worldwide, connect with us and tap into the online community.
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Community Engagement
Community Engagement
At NUI Galway, we believe that the best learning takes place when you apply what you learn in a real world context. That's why many of our courses include work placements or community projects.
Student FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is the protocol for Student Absences from on-campus teaching?
Protocol for Student Absences 2021 2022
What is a Student Advisor and how can they help me?
Our team of Student Advisers cover all areas of study and offer practical advice to help you on your career path.
College of Medicine, Nursing, & Health Sciences / School of Law
- Ann Marie Gilchrist - annmarie.gilchrist@nuigalway.ie
College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies
- Mary Cairns - mary.t.cairns@nuigalway.ie
College of Science and Engineering
- Kelly Moore - kelly.l.moore@nuigalway.ie
School of Business
- Teresa Lydon - teresa.lydon@nuigalway.ie
Important Contacts
Contacting your Programme Coordinator or College/School Office
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Query about how your programme (course) is being delivered this semester? You should email your programme coordinator directly (see details below)
- General enquiries about student administration, attendance, leave of absence, etc.? Please email or phone your College, School or Discipline Office.
COLLEGE OF ARTS, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND CELTIC STUDIES
Find an email address for your Programme Coordinator here
- College Office - general enquiries to collegearts@nuigalway.ie
- Location: Room 1019 (Tuesdays & Thursdays) and Room 2041 (Wednesdays) in the Arts Millennium Building
- College Office Hours: Tuesday - Thursday, 10.30am - 12.30pm & 2.30pm - 4pm (during COVID-19)
The College Office deals primarily with student academic matters. Students contact us if they find they are struggling with their studies seeking advice, are unable to attend lectures/tutorials due to medical/personal circumstances or if they require extensions on assignments.
- General Undergraduate Arts queries: contact Catherine (091-493958) catherine.mccurry@nuigalway.ie to arrange an appointment
- General Postgraduate Arts queries: contact Sandra (091-493949) sandra.brennan@nuigalway.ie to arrange an appointment
- Other College Office staff: Yvonne (091-492617) yvonne.oconnor@nuigalway.ie and Deirdre (091-493954) deirdre.finan@nuigalway.ie
- Discipline of Archaeology Office - general enquiries to sandra.getty@nuigalway.ie
- Discipline of Celtic Civilisation Office - general enquiries to fiona.depaor@nuigalway.ie
- Discipline of Classics Office - general enquiries to classics@nuigalway.ie
- Discipline of Economics Office - general enquiries to economics@nuigalway.ie
- Discipline of English Office - general enquiries to english@nuigalway.ie
- Discipline of French Office - general enquiries to french@nuigalway.ie
- Discipline of Geography Office - general enquiries to christina.costello@nuigalway.ie
- Discipline of German Office - general enquiries to geraldine.smyth@nuigalway.ie
- Discipline of History Office - general enquiries to helena.condon@nuigalway.ie
- Discipline of Information Technology Office - general enquiries to info@it.nuigalway.ie
- Discipline of Irish Office - general enquiries to fiona.depaor@nuigalway.ie
- Discipline of Italian Office - general enquiries to italian@nuigalway.ie
- Discipline of Law Office - general enquiries to law@nuigalway.ie
- Discipline of Mathematics Office - general enquiries to mary.kelly@nuigalway.ie
- Discipline of Philosophy Office - general enquiries to philosophyadmin@nuigalway.ie
- Discipline of Political Science and Sociology Office - general enquiries to kay.donohue@nuigalway.ie
- Discipline of Psychology Office - general enquiries to psychology@nuigalway.ie
- Discipline of Spanish Office - general enquiries to spanish@nuigalway.ie
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS, PUBLIC POLICY AND LAW
Find an email address for your Programme Director here: College of Business, Public Policy and Law Programme Director contacts, Oct 2020
- College Office - undergraduate student enquiries should be directed at School Offices below. All other College enquiries - cbppl@nuigalway.ie / (091) 492988
- J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics Office - general enquiries to business@nuigalway.ie / (091) 492612
- School of Law Office - general enquiries to law@nuigalway.ie / (091) 492389
- Shannon College Office - general enquiries to adrian.sylver@nuigalway.ie / (091) 497205
COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES
Find an email address for your Programme Coordinator here
- College Office - general enquiries to cmnhs@nuigalway.ie
- School of Health Sciences Office - HealthSciences@nuigalway.ie
- School of Medicine Office - schoolofmedicine@nuigalway.ie
- School of Nursing and Midwifery Office - nursing.midwifery@nuigalway.ie
COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Find an email address for your Programme Director and Coordinator here:
Our College Staff are here to support your academic journey and learning experience, as well as your mental health and welfare needs, throughout the COVID-19 restrictions. We encourage a virtual-first approach. Where essential and in support of your needs, our office staff are available to meet with you on a one-to-one basis in-person on campus, by prior appointment.
- College Office hours (during Level 5 restrictions): 10am-2pm, Mon-Fri.
See below a list of our contact details / email addresses.
College Office - for general enquiries, student attendance and leave of absence, contact Olive Mills at science-engineering@nuigalway.ie / (091) 492182; for undergraduate affairs, contact claire.mitchell@nuigalway.ie / (091) 493700 or olive.mcgrath@nuigalway.ie / (091) 493026
- School of Chemistry Office - general enquiries to judy.buckley@nuigalway.ie or Karen.kelly@nuigalway.ie / (091) 492460
- School of Computer Science Office - general enquiries to ComputerScience@nuigalway.ie / (091) 493259
- School of Engineering Office - general enquiries to engineering@nuigalway.ie / (091) 492101
- School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics Office - general enquiries to mary.kelly@nuigalway.ie / (091) 492332
- School of Natural Sciences Office - general enquiries to susan.gallagher@nuigalway.ie / (091) 492520
- School of Physics Office - general enquiries to rebecca.nolan@nuigalway.ie / (091) 492490
Contacting Student Services and Supports
- Remote services: You can contact most student services via email or phone at this time. See full list of contacts below.
Jump to:
- Academic Writing Centre
- Access Centre
- Accommodation & Welfare Office
- Chaplaincy
- Career Development Centre
- Counselling
- Disability Support Service
- Fees Office
- International Office
- ISS - Information Solutions and Services
- Library
- Societies Office & SocsBox
- Student Health Unit
- Student Registry Helpdesk
ACCESS CENTRE: remote service, contact via email / phone / MS Teams
Current registered full-time Mature Students:
- Wednesday Virtual Coffee at 2pm on Zoom: Click Here
- Thursday Virtual Coffee at 12.00pm on Zoom: Click Here
- Appointments can be scheduled at other times if you have a lecture at this time. See here on how to create an MS Teams appointment through your Student email calendar here: https://youtu.be/Bq9ig9iIj5Y
- Email maturestudents@nuigalway.ie
HEAR / Access / FE Undergraduates
Please contact us with any concerns that you may have as we approach exam time.
- Access and FE undergraduates, please email: access@nuigalway.ie
- HEAR Undergraduates, please email: HEAR@nuigalway.ie
Please be reassured that the access team are here to help where possible. Staff are still working remotely to ensure that students are assisted and supported where possible. We are not in a position to monitor voice messages and please be aware that staff have limited access to emails. We will respond to your query as soon as is possible. If you need to contact a member of staff urgently in the Access Centre, please email access@nuigalway.ie
Diploma in Foundation Studies Students SFD1 & SFD8
- Details of virtual coffee mornings and contacts are available on your Announcements on Blackboard Collaborate.
Queries from Prospective Mature Students interested in Full-time Undergraduate Study:
- Please email trish.bourke@nuigalway.ie for a Zoom appointment or email for advice and information on applying for a full-time degree as a Mature Student. Mature Students Guide and Entrance assessment information at www.nuigalway.ie/mature
ACCOMMODATION & WELFARE: remote service, contact via email / phone
- The Accommodation and Welfare team assist you to find advice and support on accommodation and financial matters.
- The staff will continue to support students remotely during normal working hours. To contact us in Accommodation and Welfare please click here.
- We are available from Monday – Friday (10 am – 12.30 and 14.30 – 16.00)
- The Chaplaincy service offers pastoral care, welfare support and spiritual guidance to the students and staff of NUI Galway.
- The Chaplaincy Service is available to support students and staff remotely during normal working hours and outside of working hours, when required. However, we are available to continue to meet students to deal with an urgent or emergency situation. We can be contacted as follows:
Fr Ben Hughes, Chaplain T: 087 203 7538 |
Jimmy McGovern, Seas Suas Manager E: jimmy.mcgovern@nuigalway.ie T: 083 062 6898 |
CAREER DEVELOPMENT CENTRE: remote service via email / phone / MS Teams
The Career Development Centre aims to provide a quality career guidance and information service focused on facilitating and empowering you to manage your own career development and make effective career transition.
Staff from the Career Development Centre are available to talk to students via email and phone, and appointments are available via MS Teams. We recommend you contact us as follows:
- If you are a student (not on placement) log a query on Careers Connect and one of the team will get back to you
- If you are a student on placement email your query to placement@nuigalway.ie and your Placement Officer will respond
- For general queries email careers@nuigalway.ie
- Register on Careers Connect to keep up-to-date on events including career, skills, Employability Award and Employer events
COUNSELLING: remote service, set up appointment via email
- You can consult with a member of the NUI Galway counselling service for any issue. We provide skilled listeners who have experience dealing with all the challenges students encounter
- NUI Galway Student Counselling is continuing to operate, remotely online or by phone.
- For enquiries or to set up an online/phone assessment please email: counselling@nuigalway.ie
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If you are in crisis or at serious risk of self-harm contact the following supports:
- Your own GP or local A&E Emergency Department
- University Hospital Galway Emergency Department: (091) 544544
- The Samaritans: 116 123
- Pieta House: 1800 247 247
- Text 'NUIG' to 50808 to access 24/7 crisis text support: More info here
DISABILITY SUPPORT SERVICE: remote service via email and MS Teams
Contact the Disability Support Service and access disability related support remotely via email and MS Teams.
• If you are a student who is already registered with the Disability Support Service, you can email your Disability Advisor (as detailed on your LENS report)
• If you are a student who is already registered with the Disability Support Service, and you require assistive technology support, you can email your Assistive Technology Officer
• If you are a student who wishes to register with the Disability Support Service, you can complete our online registration form
• For all other disability support related queries, please email disabilityservice@nuigalway.ie. Please note that there may be delays in responding to emails, as we are receiving a high volume of emails at present. However, we will do all that we can to keep such delays to a minimum.
FEES OFFICE: remote service via email
The Fees Office reception desk is closed due to COVID-19 protective measures and we are working remotely.
For Fee information see www.nuigalway.ie/fees or to contact us please email fees@nuigalway.ie, including your CAO / NUI Galway student ID number
INTERNATIONAL OFFICE: remote service via email/phone
The International Office reception is currently closed due to COVID-19 protective measures.
Please find email and telephone contacts on the International Office website
ISS - INFORMATION SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES: remote service via email / phone / online ticketing system
ISS continue to support students and staff via all the usual channels:
- Log any requests or issues at https://servicedesk.nuigalway.ie
- Email servicedesk@nuigalway.ie
- Call the ISS Service Desk phone number (091) 495777
- Click here for info on accessing University IT Services from off-campus
SOCIETIES OFFICE & SOCSBOX: remote service via email / phone
SocsBox Virtual Help Desk Monday – Thursday, 2pm - 5pm & 6pm - 8pm at https://bit.ly/3cCWc2B
All society activity on campus is suspended until Áras na Mac Léinn reopens. However, Societies are running virtual events. The SocsBox is contactable by email:
- SocsBox: socsbox@socs.nuigalway.ie
- Societies Officer: socsofficer@socs.nuigalway.ie
Áras na Mac Léinn rooms, The Hub and Hub Central are currently closed.
- You can join Societies by logging into your student account on yourspace.nuigalway.ie
- Society banking online will be facilitated remotely. Society information will be on www.socs.nuigalway.ie.
- www.nuigstudents.ie will be updated regularly with news on extracurricular activities.
STUDENT HEALTH UNIT: full services continue to be provided; telephone and/or face-to-face consultation appointments via online booking, with initial phone triage
- Students are no longer permitted to enter the Student Health Unit without first contacting to arrange a prior appointment.
- New patients must first register online here
- Appointment requests can be completed online here
- If you are experiencing symptoms or have a query relating to COVID-19, please read our COVID advice here
- Repeat prescriptions can be requested online here
- For any URGENT medical issues or concerns during daytime hours, please phone 091-492604 to speak directly to a member of reception staff
- Services are provided from 9.15am to 4.30pm, Monday to Friday ONLY. For any Urgent/Emergency issues Out-of-Hours (OOH), please phone 091-492604 for details of out-of-hours arrangements.
STUDENT REGISTRY HELPDESK: remote service via email / phone
We are working remotely to assist students with Registration statements, Stamping of Forms, Address updates etc.
- Student Registration Hotline: Contact us for all your registration queries at +353 91 493 999.
- Email queries: Please email askregistry@nuigalway.ie
- Getting Forms Stamped: The stamping of forms is organised electronically. Please see how to submit forms for stamping here.