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Trinity FACTS AND FIGURES
Trinity’s Rankings. According to the Times Higher Education Supplement Global Ranking, Trinity is ranked:
13th in Europe 53rd in the world
Trinity Research
1,500 research accounts
39 research centres
13 areas where Trinity is placed in the top one per cent of world universities
Visitors
500,000 visitors to Trinity College Dublin library per year
Over 70,000 visitors to Science Gallery since February 2008
Library
4.5M books in the library
50,300 historic collection of books in the Old Library have been cleaned to date funded by the Save the Treasures of the Long Room campaign
Students
55 per cent of undergraduate students entering Trinity in 2007 earned more than 500 points (out of 600) in the Leaving Certificate examination
15,492 registered students in 2006/07
3,662 degrees were conferred in 2007
There are three female students for every two male students
90 societies and 50 active sports clubs exist in the College
Alumni
87,053 alumni of Trinity College Dublin
8005 members of Facebook from Trinity College Dublin
66 Trinity Alumni branches and affinity groups worldwide
Tune in to Trinity
TCD is the first university in Ireland to join iTunes U, with podcasts available in the iTunes Store
In this Year…
1661: Henry Jones, Bishop of Meath, donated the Book of Kells to Trinity College Dublin
1708 The Irish language was first taught in Trinity
1951: Ernest Walton won a Nobel Prize for physics
1968: Samuel Beckett won a Nobel Prize for literature
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