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226	197	Arts & Humanities	-	Natural Sciences
251	Engineering & IT	-	Social Sciences
World Rankings	-	Life Sciences & Biomedicine

286=	284	Arts & Humanities	315	Natural Sciences
261	Engineering & IT	397	Social Sciences
World Rankings	495	Life Sciences & Biomedicine

Undergraduate Profile

University College Cork (UCC) was originally established in 1845 as one of three Queen's Colleges in Cork, Galway and Belfast. In 1908 it became a constituent College of the National University of Ireland and a constituent University of the National University under legislation enacted in 1997.

Today University College Cork is a major research-intensive university delivering world-class research in academic departments and in research centres of national and international significance. The university boasts almost 12,000 undergraduate students pursuing Bachelor Degree programmes and over 3,000 postgraduate students pursuing higher degrees. The student population includes some 3,000 international students. The university is committed to lifelong learning and there are also over 2,200 part-time students pursuing Adult Continuing Education courses on campus and in centres throughout the Munster region.

UCC is the university of first choice for growing numbers of students from Ireland and overseas. The university offers honours bachelor degree programmes across the Humanities, Business, Law, Engineering, Architecture, Science, Food Science, Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing and the Clinical Therapies.

The university has a beautiful and cosmopolitan campus with the gothic revival style main quadrangle building, modelled on a typical Oxford College, at its centre. The campus is within easy walking distance of Cork city centre where cafes, restaurants and night life combine to create a vibrant European city atmosphere. Cork was European City of Culture in 2005.

UCC offers a superb student experience characterized by the quality and range of its academic programmes, excellence in teaching and learning, responsive student support services and outstanding opportunities for personal development through its many clubs and societies. At UCC there is a strong emphasis on the visual arts, theatre and music. Centrepiece stands the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, not only a building of national architecture and artistic significance, but a resource for hosting an inspiring variety of collections, exhibitions, lectures and workshops.

Reflecting the university's global vision a Centre for Chinese Studies has been established. This new Centre offers courses in Chinese language, history, culture and in business. The development reflects UCC's wish to produce an Irish generation who can effectively deal with China in the 21st century. A new BA in Chinese Studies has been launched and a Bachelor in Commerce (International) with Chinese Studies, a Higher Diploma and Masters in Contemporary Chinese Culture and Business will start in September 2008.

Faculty

Number of Faculty Staff	Headcount: 1,265 FTE: 1,180
Total number of academic faculty staff who are responsible for planning, directing and undertaking teaching only, research only or both teaching and research. Please include: vice-chancellors, deputy vice-chancellors, principals, professors, heads of school, associate professors, principal lecturers, tutors or postdoctoral researchers. Please exclude research assistants, PhD students who contribute to teaching, and exchange scholars or visiting professors who are members of another university. The important distinction for us is that staff counted as âresearch onlyâ should be academically involved in that research and should be likely to publish research outputs. A research assistant, in our understanding, is any individual who is not doing own research and is therefore not likely to publish own research outputs. Said individual is (only) involved in research in terms of operation execution , such as lab technician or equipment operator.
Number of International Faculty Staff	Headcount: 404 FTE: 391
Number of academic faculty staff who are of foreign nationality. The term international is hereby determined by citizenship. For EU countries, this includes all foreign nationals, even if from another EU state. In Hong Kong, this includes professors from Mainland China. Inclusion and exclusion mirrors those for academic faculty staff.

Undergraduate Information

Number of Undergraduate Students	Headcount: 11,611 FTE: 11,150
Number of students pursuing a Bachelors level or equivalent degree. This excludes certificates/diplomas and associates degrees.
Number of International Undergraduate Students	Headcount: 1,538 FTE: 1,169
Number of undergraduate students who are foreign nationals. The term ï¿½internationalï¿½ is hereby determined by citizenship. For EU countries, this includes all foreign nationals, even nationals of other EU states. In Hong Kong, this includes students from Mainland China. Please exclude all exchange students. As for language students, if the language students take up a particular language course that is outlined as âundergraduate degree programâ they should be included under âinternational undergraduate studentsâ . Language students who take part in a course not contributing to a degree qualification should be counted under âTotal International Studentsâ.
Number of Inbound Exchange Undergraduate Students	Headcount: 429 FTE: 277
Number of undergraduate students attending your university on international exchange programs for at least 1 semester in the last 12 months.
Number of Outbound Exchange Undergraduate Students	Headcount: 183 FTE: 183
Number of undergraduate students registered at your institution who have attended another institution abroad for at least 1 semester on an exchange program in the last 12 months.
Average International Undergraduate Fees	€ EUR 21,515
Average tuition fees per academic year (two semesters) that an international student would be expected to pay for an undergraduate program, with program referring to the complete range of courses contributing to a degree. FAQ: How do I calculate average fees?
Average Domestic Undergraduate Fees	€ EUR 4,561
Average tuition fees per academic year (two semesters) that a domestic student would be expected to pay for an undergraduate program, with program referring to the complete range of courses contributing to a degree. FAQ: How do I calculate average fees?
Average Undergraduate Class Size	47
The average size of class across all undergraduate programs. The term class refers to an unit of instruction or taught session in which a teacher has pre-defined material to cover. It does exclude tutorial seminars.

Graduate / Postgraduate Information

Number of Graduate / Postgraduate Students	Headcount: 2,188 FTE: 2,094
Students pursuing a higher-level degree (Master and Doctorate), including both taught and research postgraduates (e.g. PhD students)
Number of International Graduate/Postgraduate Students	Headcount: 551 FTE: 518
Number of graduate / postgraduate students who are foreign nationals. The term ï¿½internationalï¿½ is hereby determined by citizenship. For EU countries, this includes all foreign nationals, even nationals of other EU states. In Hong Kong, this includes students from Mainland China. Please exclude all exchange students. As for language students, if they take up a particular language course that is outlined as âpostgraduate degree programâ, they should be included under âinternational postgraduate studentsâ. Language students who take part in a course not contributing to a degree qualification should be counted under âTotal International Studentsâ.
Average International Graduate / Postgraduate Fees	€ EUR 10,766
Average tuition fees per academic year (two semesters) that an international student would be expected to pay for a graduate / postgraduate program, with program referring to the complete range of courses contributing to a degree. FAQ: How do I calculate average fees?
Average Domestic Graduate / Postgraduate Fees	€ EUR 4,796
Average tuition fees per academic year (two semesters) that a domestic student would be expected to pay for a graduate / postgraduate program, with program referring to the complete range of courses contributing to a degree. FAQ: How do I calculate average fees?
Average Taught Graduate / Postgraduate Class Size	12
The average size of class across all taught graduate / postgraduate programs. The term class refers to an unit of instruction or taught session in which a teacher has pre-defined material to cover. It does exclude tutorial seminars.

Students

Total Students	Headcount: 14,585 FTE: 13,857
Total number of students.
Total International Students	Headcount: 1,884
Number of students who are foreign nationals. The term international is hereby determined by citizenship. For EU countries, this includes all foreign nationals, even nationals of other EU states. In Hong Kong, this includes students from Mainland China.
Total Outbound Exchange Students	Headcount: 168 FTE: 168
Total number of students registered at your institution who have attended another institution on an exchange program for at least 1 semester in the last 12 months.
Total Inbound Exchange Students	Headcount: 1,000
Total number of students attending your university on international exchange programs for at least 1 semester in the last 12 months.
Average Domestic Student Fees	€ EUR 16,100
Average tuition fees per academic year (two semesters) that a domestic student would be expected to pay for any program, with program referring to the complete range of courses contributing to a degree. FAQ: How do I calculate average fees?

Graduate Output

Proportion of Graduates Pursuing Further Study	35%
Proportion of graduates from undergraduate programs pursuing further study at your own institution or any other within 6 months after graduation.
Proportion of Graduates Employed	56%
Proportion of graduates (excluding those opting to pursue further study) in permanent employment within 6 months of graduation
Number of PhDs Awarded	136
Total number of PhDs awarded in the last 12 months

Entry Requirements

Avg Entry Requirements	3
Please express the average academic achievement entry requirements for your institution. Please convert your domestic requirements to the US Grade Point Average system. The five-point numerical scale is typically correlated with the A-F/A-E quality index. (A=4.0, B=3.0, C=2.0, D=1.0, E or F = 0.0) In our context, a value of 0 will imply to us that your institution has an "open access" admissions policy and will in no way count against your institution in any future table built upon this data. You can use World Education Services (WES) Toolkit as guidline: http://www.wes.org/gradeconversionguide/index.asp (copy and paste)

Research Productivity & Quality

Number of Papers	3,736
Total number of papers published in ESI indexed journals in the past 5 years
Number of Citations	17,173
Total number of citations for papers published in ESI indexed journals in the past 5 years

Main claims to international academic or non-academic excellence

In December/January 2009 the universityâ€™s Law and Philosophical societies jointly hosted the World Student Debating Championships which attracted 1,000 students from 176 Universities and 41countries. This was the biggest non-sporting event to be held in the world in 2008-9, emphasising the university's international outlook.

The university has state-of-the-art sports facilities including a 25m indoor pool and multi-purpose sports hall. It also has an international standard running track. A number of our graduates are members of the Irish Senior International Rugby Team including Ronan O'Gara. The new coach to the Team, Declan Kidney, is an alumni of the university. Roy Keane, a native of Cork City, was awarded an honorary doctorate by the university.

Paul Griffin, an evening Law student, is part of the Lightweight 4 Coxless Crew which has qualified for the Beijing Olympics.

Range of Fees

Domestic Undergraduate Fees range from â‚¬3,965 to â‚¬7,730
International Undergraduate Fees range from â‚¬11,800 to â‚¬27,000

Basic TOEFL/IELTS requirements

Ranges from IELTS 6.0 to 7.0 depending on discipline

Accommodation

UCC provides a compressive accommodation service to our students and offers a range of housing options to suit individual budgets and requirements. We have has thirty three student complexes which provide 3,762 places. There are three complexes run and owned by UCC's Campus Accommodation providing 788 bed spaces and a further thirty private complexes providing 2,974 bed spaces. Some reserve 33% of places for first year students, some specialise in first year students only and others do not take first year students or operate a first come first served admissions policy. Our on-line Student House Search data base containing 869 houses exclusive to our UCC students, offers our students the maximum flexibility in both location and price options to suit their individual requirements. All landlords on our data base agree to our good management guidelines, including minimum standards and maximum rents.

Other accommodation options include 348 places in family run digs (almost exclusively for first year students) and our on-line placement service for overseas students. In the academic year 2007-08 year 503 student availed of this service.

Additional services include year round free housing advice clinic and extended opening hours in August and September to facilitate students seeking accommodation.
(Mon-Fri 9am-8pm, Sat 10am-2pm.)

Accommodation Range

Cost per week
Student Complexes (single room)
Minimum: â‚¬65 (not en-suite) Maximum: â‚¬135 single room (en-suite)

Student houses single room
Minimum â‚¬70( not en-suite)
Maximum â‚¬125( en-suite)

Finance and Scholarships

Refer to Institution Stats and Scholarships Section

Entry Requirements

The UCC score for Average Entry Requirements is 3.3 (there is no method to perform a direct conversion but we have calculated that the UCC average entry requirement is an approximate equivalent to 3.3)