About us

The University of Limerick (UL) is considered to be one of the leading independent and international higher education institutions of Ireland. Based in Limerick, Ireland, this university was founded in 1972 and achieved its status as a public university in 1989, being the first established university in Ireland since its independence. Having a campus stretched across both sides of River Shannon, the university features a beautiful and world-class campus, educating over 15000 national and international students representing over 100 countries. The university offers a wide variety of full-time and part-time undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral-level degree programs in streams of Humanities and Social Sciences, Arts, Business, Education and Health Sciences, Science and Engineering. Being one of the top-notch public universities, UL has been ranked #511-520 in QS Global World Rankings 2021, thus charting itself among the top 550 universities in the world. The university is also recognised highly for its high research output, innovation, teaching and learning excellence, student support and engagement, graduate employability rate and infrastructure by QS Stars independent assessors, being voted as the most admired universities in Ireland. The university holds a reputation of maintaining strong ties with industries, private and public global organizations, and institutions, providing its students an exposure towards study abroad programs, scholarship opportunities for international students, work placements, and internships.