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Trinity College Dublin has climbed nine places and remains Ireland’s leading university in the latest Times Higher Education world university rankings.
The university rose from position 164 to 155 in the 2021 ranking.
In total, the rankings bring mixed news for the nine Irish universities that are in the top 1,000.
Three went down (UCD, NUI Galway and Maynooth University), two climbed (Trinity and DCU) and the rest stayed in their positions.
RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences is the second highest ranked Irish institution and maintained its ranking in the 201-250 category.
It is followed by UCD, which fell from the top-250 and entered the cumulative 251-300.
NUI Galway, which came out of the top 251-300 and entered the 301-350 category, is the fourth highest ranked Irish institution. It is followed by UCC, which remains in the 301-350 category.
Maynooth University, which moved from the 301-350 category to the 401-500 category, is in sixth place followed by DCU, which moved up from the 601-800 category to 501-600.
The University of Limerick, in eighth place, remains in the 501-600 category, while Dublin University of Technology remains in the 801-1,000 category.
The Time Higher Education rankings are based on five key indicators: teaching; investigation; quotes; International perspective; and industry revenue.
Globally, the University of Oxford has claimed the top spot for the fifth consecutive year, followed by Stanford, Harvard and the California Institute of Technology.
However, America’s dominance of the top 10 masks its broader decline in the overall rankings.
China’s Tsinghua University has become the first Asian university to enter the top 20 since the current methodology used in rankings was launched in 2011.
The UK’s status is also threatened as Asian institutions continue to climb the rankings.
Of the UK’s top 20 rated institutions last year, only five improved their position in the table and institutions outside of the top 200 show signs of decline.
Trinity said its result was helped by strong performance in research, one of the main categories on which the overall score is based.
The university’s dean of research, Professor Linda Doyle, said she was delighted to see the university improve its position.
“Excellence in research is at the heart of our identity as a university and has a fundamental influence on our teaching,” he said.
“This speaks to the quality of our researchers, who excel in tough times where funding is more difficult than ever.”
RCSI said it was happy to maintain its ranking in the top 250 for the fifth year in a row, despite a 55% increase in the universities evaluated in this world ranking.
He said his performance was driven by his strength in research with the impact of his publications in translational medicine and health sciences.
DCU said it is pleased to be one of two Irish universities to climb the rankings this year.
DCU President Professor Daire Keogh said his best performance demonstrates the progress he is making in advancing his reputation for world-class research.
“The advancement is an acknowledgment of the hard work, excellence and experience of our staff and I want to congratulate all of them on this important global affirmation of their work,” he said.
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