The Fordham Office
of International & Study Abroad Programs (ISAP) offers a
number of opportunities for studying in Ireland.
Students may go for a semester or for an entire year and have a
range of choices as to which universities they attend during their
time there.
At present, the Office of Study Abroad offers direct enrollment programs at University College Dublin (Arts and Commerce), Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork, National University of Ireland at Galway; Queen's University Belfast, and University of Ulster in Northern Ireland.
Students interested in exploring study abroad options in Ireland
should contact the office at iwww.fordham.edu/isap/
or by phone at 718/817-3464.
PDF files with more information on the programs can be downloading
by clicking here
and scrolling down to the offerings for Ireland.
Most Irish universities maintain websites with more information
on their course offerings and post-graduate degree courses.
Universities
Trinity College
– Trinity is Ireland’s oldest University. Founded in 1592 by a charter
from Queen Elizabeth I.
University College
Dublin – University College Dublin is Ireland’s largest university.
The University provides a broad range of Bachelors, Masters and
PhD degrees in subjects grouped into 11 faculties.
Dublin City University
– Dublin City University was originally founded in 1975 as the National
Institute for Higher Education, and four-years-later, took over
the present campus and grounds in the northern suburbs of Dublin.
University College
Cork – University College Cork (UCC) was founded in 1845 as
Queen's College Cork and is now a constituent university of the
National University of Ireland.
NUI Galway
– The National University of Ireland, Galway was founded in 1845
as Queen's College Galway. It became a constituent university of
the National University of Ireland in 1997
NUI Maynooth
– The first College of Maynooth, under the patronage of the Fitzgeralds,
was established in 1518. In 1795 St. Patrick's College Maynooth
was established as a seminary by an Act of the British Parliament,
and it was opened to lay students in 1966
University of Limerick
– The University of Limerick, three miles from Limerick City, is
situated in a park-like campus on the banks of the River Shannon
and is the centerpiece of Ireland's National Technological Park,
one of the country's premier business locations.
Queen’s University
Belfast – Queen's, which recently celebrated its 150th anniversary,
is one of the oldest universities in the U.K.
University of
Ulster – The University of Ulster is a large, modern university
located on four campus sites across Northern Ireland: Coleraine,
Jordanstown, Belfast and Magee in Londonderry. Coleraine is on the
River Bann, a few miles inland from the magnificent North Coast
and near the Giant's Causeway, a World Heritage site.
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