University College Cork
| Coláiste na hOllscoile, Corcaigh | |
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| Latin: Universitas Hiberniae Nationali apud Corcagium | |
| Motto | Where Finbarr Taught Let Munster Learn |
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| Established | 1845 |
| President | Professor Patrick G. O'Shea |
| Registrar | Professor Caroline Fennell |
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Academic staff
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762 (2010) |
| Undergraduates | c.14,000 (2013) |
| Postgraduates | c.4,000 (2013) |
| Address |
Western Road Cork, Cork, Ireland 51°53′35″N 8°29′35″W / 51.893°N 8.493°WCoordinates: 51°53′35″N 8°29′35″W / 51.893°N 8.493°W |
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AUA EUA NUI IUA UI Utrecht Network |
| Website | www |
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University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC) (Irish: Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland. The university is located in Cork.
The university was founded in 1845 as one of three Queen’s Colleges located in Belfast, Cork, and Galway. It became University College, Cork, under the Irish Universities Act of 1908. The Universities Act 1997 renamed the university as National University of Ireland, Cork, and a Ministerial Order of 1998 renamed the university as University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork, though it continues to be almost universally known as University College Cork.
Amongst other rankings and awards, the university was named Irish University of the Year by the Sunday Times on five occasions; most recently in 2017. In 2015, UCC was also named as top performing university by the European Commission funded U-Multirank system, based on obtaining the highest number of "A" scores (21 out of 28 metrics) among a field of 1200 partaking universities. UCC also became the first university to achieve the ISO 50001 standard in energy management in 2011.
Queen's College, Cork, was founded by the provisions of an act which enabled Queen Victoria to endow new colleges for the "Advancement of Learning in Ireland". Under the powers of this act, the three colleges of Belfast, Cork and Galway were incorporated on 30 December 1845. The college opened in 1849 with 23 professors and 181 students and a year later became part of the Queen's University of Ireland.
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