Dublin City University

Dublin City University is based on three academic campuses in the Glasnevin-Drumcondra region of north Dublin. It has more than 19,000 students from 124 countries enrolled across five faculties – science and health, DCU Business School, computing and engineering, humanities and social sciences and DCU Institute of Education.

It was the first university in Ireland to integrate workplace internships (INTRA) into its undergraduate courses with more than 80 per cent of programmes offering work-based learning opportunities.

The university has a number of research and enterprise hubs that facilitate research partnerships between academics and external organisations. The research centres cover areas such as educational assessment and evaluation, bullying prevention, human rights, cellular biotechnology, neurotherapeutics, sensors, plasma technology, biomedical diagnostics, machine translation, cloud computing, and data analytics, to name but a few.

It also comprises the John and Aileen O'Reilly library, with 400 workstations, 1,200 seats and 18 collaborative rooms. 

Its campus also includes restaurants, a theatre and conference centre, a crèche and a university sports complex.

DCU is home to the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL) which focuses on learning innovation.