Founded in 1592, Trinity College Dublin is Ireland’s university on the world stage, offering undergraduate and postgraduate programmes across 24 schools and three faculties: arts, humanities, and social sciences; engineering, maths and science; and health sciences.
Spread across 50 acres in Dublin city centre, Trinity’s 17,000-strong student body comes from all 32 counties and more than 120 countries, making it a cosmopolitan campus with a focus on diversity, intellectual rigour, academic excellence and research-led teaching. Home to Nobel prize-winners such as scientist Ernest Walton and writer Samuel Beckett, Trinity draws visitors from across the world to its historic campus each year, including to the Book of Kells and Science Gallery which capture the university’s connection to both old and new.
At Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin we provide a liberal environment where independence of thought is highly valued and all are encouraged to achieve their potential. We promote a diverse, interdisciplinary, inclusive environment which nurtures ground-breaking research, innovation, and creativity through engaging with issues of global significance.
Located in a beautiful campus in the heart of Dublin’s city centre, Trinity is Ireland’s highest ranked university and one of the world’s top 100. It is home to 17,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students across all the major disciplines in the arts and humanities, and in business, law, engineering, science, and health sciences.
Trinity’s tradition of independent intellectual inquiry has produced some of the world’s finest, most original minds including the writers Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett (Nobel laureate), the scientists William Rowan Hamilton and Ernest Walton (Nobel laureate), the political thinker Edmund Burke, and the former President of Ireland and UNHCR Mary Robinson. This tradition finds expression today in a campus culture of scholarship, innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship and dedication to societal reform.
Our city centre campus has been the beating heart of Dublin and Ireland for well over four centuries. I first came here as an engineering student in the early 1980s and I can still recognise the well-loved campus of my youth but it’s also been transformed into a global, interdisciplinary 21st century university.
Trinity researches at the cutting edge in exciting new fields like nanoscience, immunology, creative technologies and digital humanities as well as all the traditional disciplines. We welcome students from over 120 countries, and we drive innovation and entrepreneurship in both research and education. Trinity produces a fifth of all spin-out companies in Ireland and we are Europe’s number 1 university for educating entrepreneurs.
There is so much activity ongoing across the university – with research projects, access programmes, public lectures, student clubs & societies, plays, readings, workshops, exhibitions, outreach… We’ve done our best to capture the full myriad of activities in this website. I hope you’ll enjoy exploring these pages to learn more about this great university.
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A college that offers a glimpse into history and large green space to picnic.
I had the opportunity to visit the lIbrary where the film Harry Potter was filmed. It also hold the coveted Book of Kells. I recommend paying extra for an early morning tour before they open doors to the public. In doing so you avoid the crowds, and if your a photographer you get the most amazing pictures without strangers photobombing your shots and security asking you to leave... the early morning tour offers an in-depth/ behind the scenes looks at the harp, books and artifacts that are closed off from viewing.
Upside: amazing architecture and history. Students and staff are very friendly.
Downside: The building is hard to find as it blends in with all the other buildings and doesn't have a sign.
By Robyn Moore (Jun, 2018) |
Definitely one of the best universities in U.K.-Ireland and the atmosphere in there is quite like Cambridge or Oxford rather than those universities of Regency Period. More importantly Lady Morgana(Katie McGrath) was graduated from here…
By Chi Mingshan (Jun, 2018) |
Student tour was lively and informative. It gave a great overview of how the university grew over the years. We loved our guide who was funny and inclusive.
Book of Kells is a must-see work of art. Gorgeous colors and wonderful art. Interesting exhibit explains how the Book of Kells was created.
Library was my favorite part of Trinity. It holds Brian Boru’s harp
By Thomas Elledge (Jun, 2018) |
Trinity College and library is an amazing and must visit if you go to Ireland. Lots of history here which the tours can provide or by looking it up online.
The architecture is old and magnificent. You can see the time line simply bye starting at the gate and walking to the back.
The library hosts the famous book of Kells and is a must. Seeing something as old as the book of Kells is truly memorizing. It is from a estimated 700 AD!
Students still attend this collage so it is important to be respectful towards that.
Thanks to the locals of Howth for making our honeymoon special.
By Steven Golab (May, 2018) |
Famous university founded in 1592 by charter of Queen Elisabeth. Looks like a palace complex and the guides (who are students) show you gladly around the campus with the library, squares, Book of Kells, Science Gallery etc. The great architecture can be admired. The inside squares and grassfields are amazing and well kept . Highly recommended to visit.
By Jan Torfs (May, 2018) |
Trinity cares more about tourists than its students, and has imposed new extortionate fees that will hit students who are already disadvantaged hardest. Please boycott Trinity College Dublin tours and the Book of Kells in solidarity with students.
By Ruby O Shea (Apr, 2018) |
My advice to any prospective students: (expecially international and postgraduate) DON'T GO HERE. TCD has aptly shown to me over four years that it cares little about the welfare of its current students. This was first shown to me in their cutback of academic scholarships, along with year-on-year increases in university accommodation fees. The most recent innovation from said management has been introducing a 450 euro flat fee for supplemental examinations usually sat at the start of September, along with proposed increases in rent to approximately 960 euro per month (from a current value of about 810 euro per month). There are currently widespread protests within the university against the introduction of this latest fee. However, this is the tipping point in a series of measures taken by the management over the past few years including replacing a student restaurant with a Bank of Ireland bank branch, a 5% increase in postgraduate and international student fees (who Trinity seem to view as little more than cash cows) and a reduction in funding towards essential counselling and mental health services, along with many others.
I fully expect this post to be taken down by Trinity College, as they have done this previously with other negative ratings, showing the lengths and desperation of the management to preserve their reputation as 'Ireland's premier university'. Most recently the management have attempted to shut down the protests by denying food and water to those doing the protesting, backing up my previous claim.
By Conor Coughlan (Apr, 2018) |
Gorgeous campus, a lovely place to walk around at any time of year. A nice early walk through in the morning or the evening! Check out the book of Kells and take a tour if it’s your first time!
By Brendan Pidgeon (Apr, 2018) |
The campus is really pretty but I my friend had a weird experience here. They were visiting the book of Kells with some friends who are students here and they started impersonating American tourists as a joke.
Some guy roared "More Internationals!" and pointed at them. Before they knew it they were surrounded by guys in suits carrying large burlap sacks with € symbols on them. They held them upside down by their ankles and shook them until all their valuables fell out.
Before leaving, the ringleader of the group shouted "You still owe us €200 for graduation". That must have been frightening. Giving 2/5 because the statues were pretty cool.
By William Ethan (Apr, 2018) |
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Trinity College Dublin has been a transformative experience for my son, with its rigorous curriculum and dedicated staff that truly nurture each student's journey.
By Ritu Khan (Sep, 2024) |