Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin

Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, is Ireland's oldest university, founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I as a collegiate university that in practice has remained a single college. It occupies a 47-acre campus in the center of Dublin. Over four centuries it grew from an Anglican foundation into a secular national university while keeping the college-and-university legal structure that still distinguishes it in Ireland.

Teaching is grouped in three faculties: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; and Health Sciences, comprising 24 schools. Trinity is known for English literature, history, medicine, physics, and computer science. Graduate students use the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, the CRANN nanoscience institute, and Trinity Business School.

Enrollment is about 20,000 students, of whom a large minority are postgraduates, and more than a quarter are international, from some 120 countries. Academic staff number about 1,700. Alumni include Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett, a Nobel laureate in literature, and physicist Ernest Walton, a Nobel laureate in physics.

Graduate degrees include taught MPhil and MSc programs, professional master's degrees including an MBA, and research MLitt and PhD degrees under a supervisor in a school. The academic year is two semesters. Research students are funded through Irish Research Council awards, Trinity postgraduate studentships, and school scholarships. Campus life is concentrated inside the city-center courts and libraries, with teaching hospitals and science institutes on adjacent sites.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin lists 10 graduate programs across 9 subjects: 7 master's programs and 3 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in politics & international relations, biology and business & management. Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin holds rank 165 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.