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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