By Niall MurrayTrinity College Dublin and University College Dublin are in the world’s top 50 for nursing and other subjects, but other Irish universities have mixed fortunes in the latest discipline-specific rankings. The 24th-place position of UCD in the world’s providers of veterinary science degrees is the top ranking for any Irish college in the QS World University Rankings by Subject, published this afternoon. Both TCD and UCD’s nursing programmes make the top 50 - 25th and 31st, respectively - and those at University College Cork and NUI Galway retain top 100 positions. However, when improvements at Trinity are excluded, the number of drops in rank recorded exceeds the number of rises in the subject rankings by more than two to one. University College Cork drops in six of the 20 subject rankings in which it appears, and moves up the bandings for just two, reaching 160th for engineering and technology, and the top 250 for environmental sciences.

Source: Evening echo February 28, 2018 14:37 UTC