Trinity College Dublin

Overview

Trinity College Dublin

Trinity College Dublin (University of Dublin) is a research university located in Dublin, Ireland. It was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I and was modeled after the collegiate universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Trinity College is the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin and one of the seven ancient universities of Britain and Ireland.

Trinity College Dublin Key Statistics

The college comprises three faculties, namely, the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Engineering, Mathematics, and Science, and the Faculty of Health Sciences. These faculties are further divided into 24 schools.

Trinity College has 13,285 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 5,122 in postgraduate programs, and 46 in foundation courses. It employs 1,264 academic staff and 1,360 support staff.

The library system of Trinity College is composed of the Berkeley, Lecky, Ussher (BLU) Libraries, the Hamilton Library, the John Stearne Medical Library, and the Old Library. They house a collection of around five million books, including 30,000 current serials and significant collections of maps, manuscripts, and printed music. The university also has 10 teaching and associated hospitals.

Other Trinity College Dublin key statistics include its partnership with over 300 universities around the world, including Columbia University and the University of Southern California (U.S.A.), the Beijing Foreign Studies University and the Minzu University of China (China), Singapore Institute of Technology (Singapore), and Manipal Academy of Higher Education (India).

Trinity College Dublin Research

The college had a research expenditure of €101m in the year 2018-19. Research at Trinity is mostly funded by the Science Foundation Ireland, the Irish Research Council, and the Commission of the European Union.

The university's top three research fields are biology, medicine, and genetics. Its researchers have published in prestigious journals like Nature, Nature Genetics, and Science. Its researchers had been invited to attend and/or present papers at international conferences such as the International Conference on Communications, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, and Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing.

The most cited publication from Trinity College Dublin research is Liberati et al.’s (2009) “The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate health care interventions: Explanation and elaboration,” published in PLOS Medicine. It has received a total of 68,076 citations to date. The second most cited paper is Lander et al.’s (2001) “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome,” published in Nature. It has received a total of 27,476 citations. The university’s third most cited paper is Ade et al.’s (2016) “Planck 2015 results - XIII. Cosmological parameters,” published in Astronomy and Astrophysics. It has been cited by papers, articles, and other publications around 17,511 times so far.

Its research centers and relevant facilities include the Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices, the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, the Trinity Translational Medical Institute, the Centre for Biodiversity Research, the Center for Creative Technologies and Media Engineering, and the Center for Computing and Language Studies.