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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.
Research Metrics
Research in NUI Galway
NUI Galway is world-renowned as an expert research-led University. We emphasise interdisciplinary research programmes, and collaborations with industry partners in areas of strategic importance, both regionally and nationally. Situated on the edge of Europe, NUI Galway is a dynamic location for research and innovation. Our approach is to be collaborative, creative, interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial. We partner with almost 3,000 research institutes worldwide to create global networks of expertise.
In the past ten years, our researchers have tripled their annual output of indexed publications, quadrupled the number of invention disclosures made annually and increased the annual number of citations by a factor of five. In the past decade, we have also more than doubled our annual number of research graduates. A number of NUI Galway researchers have been included among the most "influential names in science", according to Thomson Reuters. The list is a citation analysis identifying scientists as determined by their fellow researchers whose research has had a significant global impact within their respective fields of study.
Find out more about NUI Galway's different research areas.
In order to better understand the scale and reach of our research output, the University engages a number of research metrics and tools to assess and benchmark our research reach and impact while engaging with the principles of Responsible Metrics which NUI Galway is committed to further developing and implementing.
News
8th June 2022
NUI Galway is ranked 270th out of 1,400 institutions worldwide.
14th November 2021
NUI Galway achieves University of the Year status in the Sunday Times Ranking
9th September 2021
NUI Galway has achieved a renewed Bronze Athena SWAN Award
3rd September 2021
NUI Galway is placed in the 351-400 range in the Times Higher Education World Rankings
8th June 2021
NUI Galway is placed 258th position in the QS World Rankings
4th March 2021
4th November 2020
NUI Galway achieved runner-up position for the second year in a row in the Sunday Times Good University Guide, published November 2020.
2nd September 2020
NUI Galway is ranked in the 301-350 band in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.