This is UCC

Introducing University College Cork (UCC): • Founded in 1845, UCC is one of three Queen's Colleges in Cork, Galway and Belfast • University buildings of historical and cultural importance --the Main Quadrangle, The Honan Chapel, The Glucksman Gallery • UCC ranked in top 2% of universities worldwide, based on the quality of its research output and peer esteem • UCC - Ireland's first Five-Star university (QS Stars 2011) • UCC voted Best University in Ireland by The Sunday Times three times in the past decade, the only Irish university to have won this accolade • UCC - first university in the world to be awarded the international Green Flag for environmental friendliness in 2010 • UCC - the world's first third-level institution to be awarded the ISO 50001 standard in energy management • UCC --Third in world's universities for environment-friendly university management (Universitas Indonesia Greenmetric World University Ranking system 2013) Student numbers • UCC - c.20,000 full-time students: c14,000 undergraduate students and c.4,000 Masters and PhD students • UCC - over 3,000 international students representing 100-plus countries worldwide • UCC - 2,000 part-time students in Adult Continuing Education • UCC- 93% of undergraduates go on to employment or further education • UCC- one of the larger employers in the region with c.2,800 people Academic programmes • UCC offers over 120 degree and professional programmes in the Humanities, Business, Law, Architecture, Science, Food and Nutritional Sciences, Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing and the Clinical Therapies Research • First professor of Mathematics at UCC was George Boole (1815-64) famous for his Boolean Algebra which is at the basis of digital computing systems • UCC research income for the past five years over €401 million • Annual research income from the European Commission/FP7 sources reached €10.6 million, a 40% increase since 2008/2009 • Income from new awards from EU was €13.1 million, a 170% increase since 2008/2009 • UCC - most successful university in Ireland for EU FP7 research grants at 23.7% • Non-exchequer research funding = 25% of UCC's research income, up from 17% in 2009/201 • From 2007-2012 number of citations per journal publication grew by 30% • 62% of Ireland's most highly-cited researchers are from UCC • UCC researchers collaborate with close to 700 of the world's top universities across 110 countries