Here’s where Irish colleges rank in the list of the best universities in the world

Eight Irish colleges made a list of the best 1,000 universities in the world.

Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, University College Cork, NUI Galway, the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin City University, NUI Maynooth and University College Limerick have all been included in a list of the best 1,000 universities in the world.

Queens University in Belfast and the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland also made a list compiled by the Centre for World University Rankings, who rank universities using eight criteria such as alumni employment, influence and quality of education.

University College Cork (UCC) ranked at number 443 on the list. Image via Facebook/University College Cork

Not surprisingly, influential American colleges such as Harvard, Stanford and Princeton feature prominently in the top ten alongside famed British institutions such as Oxford and Cambridge.

Trinity College is the highest-ranking Irish university in 175^th place, while universities in Tokyo and Kyoto in Japan are the only universities outside of the US and the UK to rank in the top 20.

The best universities in the world

1. Harvard University, USA
2. Stanford University, USA
3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
4. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
5. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
6. Columbia University, USA
7. University of California, Berkeley, USA
8. University of Chicago, USA
9. Princeton University, USA
10. Yale University, USA

175. Trinity College Dublin

240. University College Dublin

316. Queens University Belfast

443. University College Cork

545. NUI Galway

687. Royal College of Surgeons

757. University of Ulster, Northern Ireland

773. Dublin City University

797. NUI Maynooth

972. University of Limerick

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