Trinity College, Dublin

The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin or more commonly Trinity College, Dublin was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I, and is the only constituent college of the University of Dublin, Ireland's oldest university. Trinity is located on College Green in Dublin, opposite the former Irish Houses of Parliament (now a branch of the Bank of Ireland). The campus occupies 47 acres (190,000 m²), with many attractive buildings, both old and new, centred around large courts and two playing fields.

Status

The university is regarded as one of the most prestigious universities in Ireland and is consistently the highest ranked university on world-wide metrics in the country, usually within the top 100 universities globally. The University of Dublin of which Trinity is the sole constituent college claims sisterhood with Oxbridge although for British students Trinity has traditionally been the destination for high-minded applicants who failed to gain entrance to the two most prestigious British universities.

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In recent times, and since the 1990s especially, Trinity has started to invest heavily in research with funding particularily from public sources, although in comparison to internationally rated institutions, some scholars claim that the strong reputation of the university is poorly served by its relatively low research funding.

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