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UCC subjects ranked in world’s top 50 and 100
UCC has been named as one of the world's top universities for the study of 29 subjects according to the latest world subject rankings produced by higher education analysts, QS. This is up from 24 subjects featuring last year.
Nursing (27), Agriculture & Forestry (84), Law (94), Performing Arts (51-100) have been ranked in the top 50 and top 100 in the world.
English Language and Literature (101-150), Pharmacy & Pharmacology (101-150), Anatomy & Physiology (101-170), Modern Languages (151-200), Philosophy (151-200), make up the nine UCC subjects featuring in the top 200 globally, in their respective ranks.
Each of Archaeology, History, Modern Languages, Nursing, Geography, Materials Science, Economics & Econometrics, and Sociology improved their ranks this year. Nursing at UCC improved for the fifth year in a row and is now ranked an impressive 27th in the world, among its peers.
This year's rankings saw 5,202 institutions analysed with 1,747 different higher education institutions across 148 countries making the final published listings. The rankings are based on a combination of different indicators relating to academic and employer reputation, and to research.
Welcoming the results UCC President Professor John O’Halloran said: “We are pleased that the hard work of all our staff has been recognised again by QS, in this set of World University Subject rankings.
The spread of subjects featuring across our all our colleges is very encouraging. Underpinned by our international reputation and research, these rankings are reflective of our ambition to maintain and improve UCC’s global position.”
More information on the latest cycle of the QS subject rankings can be found here: