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A research-led college of excellence, delivering a range of high quality undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in all STEM subjects.

STEM at UCC Fact File

Over 5,000 Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students Annually

1,200 STEM-Enabled Graduates Annually

Over 90% of Our Graduates are in Employment or Further Study

Food Science and Engineering Ranked in the Top 50 of the Prestigious Shanghai Ranking of Global Subjects 2021

Agriculture in UCC Ranked in the Top 100 QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021

#1 For Student Experience in Ireland

Ranked 9th Globally in the UI Green Metric World University Ranking of Sustainable Universities

Cutting Edge Research with over 600 Academic and Research Staff

7 STEM Research Institutes and Centres

4 Academic Units in the College of SEFS with an Athena SWAN Bronze Award, Addressing Gender Imbalances in STEM Disciplines.

In The News

Photo (L-R): Professor Sarah Culloty (Head of the College of Science, Engineering and Food Science at UCC), Professor Barry O'Sullivan (Director of the Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics and UCC’s Futures in AI and Data Analytics), Professor V.S. Subrahmanian (Buffett Institute Faculty Fellow and the Head of Northwestern Security & AI Lab), Professor John O'Halloran (UCC President), Professor Ursula Kilkelly (Vice President for Global Engagement at UCC).
13 Mar 2025

Northwestern University and University College Cork establish key partnership on Geopolitics, Artificial Intelligence, and National Security

The Northwestern Security and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (NSAIL), under the leadership of Professor V.S. Subrahmanian, and the Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics and UCC Futures on AI and Data Analytics at University College Cork, under the leadership of Professor Barry O’Sullivan, have entered into a partnership to support collaboration in the area of Geopolitics, Artificial Intelligence, National Security.
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13 Mar 2025

QS Rankings 2025

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 Quacquarelli Symonds. This is up from 24 subjects featuring last year.
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L-R: Adrian Beatty, Dairygold Group Head of Human Resources; Patrick Clancy, Dairygold Chairperson; Katy Halpin, student; Professor Frank Buckley, UCC Professor of Agricultural Science; Sarah Shannon, student; Michael Harte, Chief Executive Dairygold. Picture O'Gorman Photography.
10 Mar 2025

Dairygold awards bursaries to UCC Agricultural Science students 

Dairygold Co-Operative Society has awarded two undergraduate bursaries to students undertaking the Bachelor of Agricultural Science degree at University College Cork (UCC).  
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Photo: Dr Nilushni Sivapragasam of the School of Food & Nutritional Sciences at UCC.
06 Mar 2025

UCC project for processing climate-resilient crops in Zimbabwe receives national funding

A University College Cork (UCC) project that will develop solar-powered machines to process climate-resilient grain crops in Africa has received funding from a national programme that aims to eradicate global poverty.
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Block E, Level 3, Food Science Building, UCC, Cork, T12 YN60.

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