University College Cork

University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork

Coláiste na hOllscoile, Corcaigh
Latin: Universitas Hiberniae Nationalis apud Corcagium
Former name	Queen's College, Cork
Motto	Where Finbarr Taught Let Munster Learn
Type	Public university
Established	1845; 179 years ago (1845)
Founder	Queen Victoria[1]
President	John O'Halloran[2]
Academic staff	965[3]
Students	24,195 (2021-22)[3]
Undergraduates	16,849 (2021-22)[3]
Postgraduates	7,346 (2021-22)[3]
Location	Cork , Ireland 51°53′35″N 8°29′35″W / 51.893°N 8.493°W / 51.893; -8.493
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Affiliations	AUA EUA NUI IUA UI Utrecht Network
Website	www.ucc.ie

University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC)^[4] (Irish: Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, and located in Cork.

The university was founded in 1845 as one of three Queen's Colleges located in Belfast, Cork, and Galway.^[5] It became University College, Cork, under the Irish Universities Act 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,^[6] 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.^[7][8] 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.^[9] UCC also became the first university to achieve the ISO 50001 standard in energy management in 2011.