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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.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Postgraduate Courses in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
As per the Regional West Enterprise Plan, the need to advance the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem has been highlighted by the Government of Ireland, and these programmes from NUI Galway are key contributors to this objective. The Regional West Enterprise Plan also lists AgTech and Life Sciences (medical devices make up the lion's share of this sector in Ireland) as two of its strategic objectives.
BioInnovate Ireland is a national health technology innovation programme based at NUI Galway. BioInnovate has helped to create 22 new companies successfully raising over €25 million in funding to date, has 81 fellowship alumni across the healthcare sector, and is on course to help improve millions of people’s lives worldwide.
Over 130 agri-entrepreneurs have learned how to create companies through the MSc in AgInnovation, with projects ranging from improvements in agricultural practice, digital farming, new food products, revitalising traditional sectors such as seaweed harvesting, wool, and beekeeping, and reimagining rural communities.
Course Name | Cao Code | College/school | Key Words |
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AgInnovation: Agricultural Innovation & Entrepreneurship (MSc) | College of Science and Engineering | aginnovation, engineering, nui galway, postgraduate, agricultural, agriculture, innovation, entrepreneurship | |
BioInnovation (PDip) | College of Science and Engineering | BioInnovate Ireland, Medical device, Medical Device Design, Healthcare Technology Design, Needs Led Innovation, Unmet clinical needs, Under met clinical needs, Medtech, Biodesign, Stanford Biodesign, Stanford University Global Affiliate, Enterprise Ireland, High Potential Start Ups, Design to Advance Patient Care, Design to Improve Treatment Outcomes, Human Factors Engineering, User Experience, Patient Experience, Investment, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship, Innovation Fellowship, Leadership, Next Generation Medtech Leaders, Future of Healthcare, Future Innovators, Design Thinking, Empathic Engineering, Patient Centered Design, Public Patient Involvement Design, PPI, Teamwork and Partnership | |
TechInnovation (Distance Education) (MSc) | College of Science and Engineering | technology innovation, entrepreneurship development, nui galway, nuig, techinnovation, msc |
What Our Students Say

Blátnaid Gallagher | MSc:AgInnovation: Agricultural Innovation & Entrepreneurship
In the modern day, we are never far from a problem; from daily problems on a farm, to the bigger problems we face as humanity. But when problems like this exist and you feel, see and live them, what can be done? Well, we can innovate to solve them. A daunting task, and one I didn’t know how to even start, until I spotted the AgInnovation MSc course at National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway – and so, my journey began.The AgInnovation (agricultural innovation and entrepreneurship) Masters of Science (MSc) at NUI Galway puts a great perspective on what is needed to take a concept, a dream, an idea or an ambition, and bring it to fruition.
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