Set on 42 acres of wooded ground, only a 10 minute walk from Cork City Centre, our college was established in 1845 after a long campaign for a higher education institution in Munster. On these pages you can find out more about the history of UCC.
UCC Alumni and Development fosters partnerships of mutual benefit with individuals, trusts and foundations and the corporate sector. These partnerships are vital as they enable the university to provide an excellent standard of teaching and research and a quality third and fourth level educational experience for students.
UCC Alumni and Development offers opportunities to individuals and corporations to become involved in capital development and heritage projects as well as academic and research programmes.The UCC Alumni Community is a global network numbering more than 140,000 and includes graduates from a wide range of disciplines - some studied at UCC in recent years, others attended in decades gone by. We would like to keep in touch with all of our alumni and to help alumni to stay in touch with one another. Being a part of the alumni network can be of enormous benefit both professionally and socially. We organise class reunions and events in Ireland and in the various locations where our alumni live and work around the world.
Why Choose UCC
UCC is located in Cork City. Cork is Ireland’s second largest city and is located near the south coast of Ireland. It offers students all the advantages of a bustling, vibrant and cosmopolitan city. The city and university work well together in providing students with a rich academic and extra-curricular experience. Cork is a very safe and friendly city to live in.Student Life
Student life in UCC is great, you can get involved in many ways:
- Students’ Union
- Mardyke Sports Arena
- Clubs and Societies (over 100 to choose from)
- Cork City (theatre, music, art, food culture, festivals)
- Cork County (beaches, history, scenery)
Institutional Level Rankings
ARWU – Academic Ranking of World Universities (Shanghai Ranking).
The first and most prestigious of the university rankings. UCC improved its position to the 301-400 band and improved its overall score in the most recent cycle of this ranking. UCC is now joint-second in Ireland with UCD in this ranking which is confined to the top 2,000 universities globally, of which 1,000 make the final published rank.
U-Multirank
Is a user-based approach to ranking universities which was formed from an EC-funded project. It is a very rigorous assessment of the University which examines the University's performance in 38 different indicators across the areas of teaching and learning, research, knowledge transfer, international orientation and regional engagement. This year's assessment, which published on the U-Multirank website on 21 June 2022, saw UCC improve its performance to 17 A scores and 11 B scores out of the 38 performance indicators scored, making it the top performing Irish Higher Education Institution under this independent assessment again this year.
Webometrics
A Spanish Government developed ranking with a primary purpose to promote scientific research, UCC is ranked 387 of 12,000 global universities and third-level institutions. The ranking is based on three indicators relating to Impact, Excellence and Openness.
Sunday Times League Table
UCC ranks 3rd in Ireland after TCD and UCD in this national ranking of Ireland’s seventeen third level institutions. This ranking looks across 8 different indicators and takes data from the CAO, HEA, and National Student Survey among other sources.
