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We are driven by one unifying philosophy – we are ambitious for our students, our people, and our family of schools. We believe there is no limit to what our students can achieve and our approach supports every child to succeed academically, socially, and personally. We enrich your child’s learning experience with an opportunity beyond the ordinary. From online debates and challenges to expeditions to the savannah of Tanzania or performing in our Global Orchestra in New York, our Global Campus connects our students around the world to learn together every day. Small class sizes mean our teachers know every child individually and can respond to your child’s strengths, adapting our learning model to help them overcome challenges. We nurture essential skills to equip your child to succeed in every aspect of their education. We know the difference that great teaching makes to your child’s success at school. That’s why we have developed a unique approach to teacher recruitment, training, and support that ensures your child learns from the best. We also partner with world-leading organizations to ensure that our curricula and initiatives are second to none. For example, our music curriculum is developed in collaboration with The Juilliard School. Our Academic Success is a testament to this approach, with one in three of our students going to the world’s top 100 universities. And for us, academic success is just the beginning. Our school will nurture your child’s talents so that they can succeed in every aspect of their education, from sports to arts, languages, or technology. We encourage every student to love learning, to try something new, and, above all, to be ambitious. Our students experience contemporary and personalized learning to ensure they have the knowledge, skills, and understanding for a changing world. Through the IB program and our collaborations with Juilliard and MIT, we encourage students of all ages to think critically and challenge assumptions. Our students develop independence while adopting global awareness within a local context and achieving outstanding academic results. NAIS Dublin has the global reach to recruit from the best pool of teachers around the world. We then provide world-leading professional development for teachers through Nord Anglia University and through our collaboration with Kings College London where teachers can undertake an MA in International Education. NAIS Dublin offers global opportunities for Irish and Expatriate students, parents, and staff. We are proud to offer an open and collaborative environment so that all people can learn happily and achieve together. Students develop a love for learning through our global campus and numerous student trips and visits. Nord Anglia International School Dublin is a unique international school in Dublin offering a premium and contemporary education for 3-18-year-olds. The school opened in September 2018 and is now accepting applications for students up to Grade 9 (14 years old). We aim to make the process of finding out about the school and applying for a place here as straightforward as possible. There is pressure on spaces within certain year groups, so to help us do all we can to meet you and your children’s needs. View full school

The International School of Dublin (ISD) was established in 2007 to meet a need for educational diversity in Ireland. At present, our students are aged 3-12 and represent over 20 different nationalities. ISD is the only accredited IB World Primary School in Ireland. It is a small, private, non-profit school that is co-educational, non-denominational, and culturally diverse. We believe that our school’s success is due to our internationally regarded curriculum (IBPYP) and how it is lived out by our students, staff, and parents. At ISD you will find a welcoming and lively environment, which is characterized by collaborative and purposeful activity. ISD students benefit from an innovative form of schooling, a broad education that promotes inquiring, open-minded, and principled learners who are reflective risk-takers. Small class sizes are guided by internationally experienced staff. Students inquire into the world in which they live and ultimately develop themselves as global, internationally-minded citizens. Our students are encouraged, guided, and challenged to engage with real-life learning experiences. We aim for the success and achievement of each child. International School of Dublin endeavors to develop the intellectual, aesthetic, moral, physical, social, and emotional potential of its students through inquiry-based teaching and learning. ISD strives to be a center for professional and curriculum development. The school provides excellent international education through the promotion of high academic standards, international understanding, and full parental involvement. At ISD we feel that one of the fundamental goals of education is to encourage a love of learning. By nature, children are active inquirers and we believe our students retain far more knowledge when given the freedom to have ownership over their learning. Our students engage in intellectual exploration while teachers gently guide, encourage and inspire students to navigate through an inquiry cycle and develop a variety of enduring skills. View full school

Dublin Business School (DBS) holds considerable authority in providing career-centered business and law education and the teaching of new programs in the fields of arts, media, social science, humanities, and psychology. This is an energizing time for you as you establish the frameworks for the rest of your life. At DBS, we will do all that we can to help you settle on the correct decisions for your future, and a program of study at DBS will give you the ideal beginning in your career. We have planned our courses in association with industry and professional bodies so that when you graduate and your scholastic capabilities, you will have what it takes to start a significant career. Our ethos gives exceptionally engaging and essential programs to local and international students who utilize creative ways to deal with educating and learning. One of these developments is DBS Advantage. DBS Advantage is an activity that gives students the chance to participate in a growth program run parallel to their academic studies that get students ready for the working environment. It has been perceived that the third level's responsibility is not just to bestow learning but rather to add to maintaining a viable and a 'smart' economy and have a significant impact on the holistic growth advancement of the individual. Some part of this advancement identifies with cultivating "transferable" or "generic" aptitudes in people. Cases of such abilities are communication abilities, planning, leadership, multi-tasking, and so forth – aptitudes that are fundamental not merely in learning or work circumstances, but instead in every aspect of life. DBS Advantage helps DBS students in building up these essential abilities. Nevertheless, there is more to being a student than only studying. Advanced education is about building up your entire identity and partaking in a wide variety of exercises beyond the lecture halls, library, or PC research facility, which will shape your character in the coming years. The DBS Student Services office coordinates an increasing number of clubs and societies every academic year, which has taken pleasure in success at different Intervarsity levels. DBS keeps on developing and expanding on its status for being Ireland's top independent school. July 2007 saw the College's procurement of Portobello College. The amalgamation of the two foundations generates Ireland's most prominent independent third level institute with a student populace of more than 9,000 and a capacity to run more than 100 recognized programs. DBS additionally has various non-recognized programs on offer that have been composed in conjunction with the industry. View full university

University College Dublin has its origins in the mid-nineteenth century under the renowned educationalist John Henry Cardinal Newman's leadership. Since its foundation in 1854, the University has flourished and made a unique and substantial contribution to modern Ireland's creation, based on successful engagement with Irish society on every level and across every sphere of activity. UCD is one of Europe's leading research-intensive universities, an environment where undergraduate education, master's and Ph.D. training, research, innovation, and community engagement form a dynamic spectrum of activity. The international standing of UCD has grown in recent years. It is currently ranked within the top 1% of institutions worldwide. UCD is also Ireland's most globally engaged University, with over 30,000 students drawn from over 120 countries and includes 5,500 students based at locations outside of Ireland. The University's main Dublin campus occupies an extensive parkland estate of more than 130 hectares. It offers world-leading facilities, including the UCD O'Brien Centre for Science, UCD Sutherland School of Law, UCD Lochlan Quinn School of Business, and UCD Student Centre. As Ireland's largest University, with its great strength and diversity of disciplines, UCD embraces its role to contribute to the flourishing of Ireland through the study and discussion of people, society, business, economy, culture, languages, and the creative arts, as well as through research and innovation. The University's Strategy 2015-2020 outlines the objectives and major strategic initiatives set in place in order to accomplish UCD's mission and vision for this era. Research and innovation are essential drivers of a dynamic economy, an informed society, and a vibrant culture. The spectrum of research and innovation at UCD encompasses individual scholars, small, medium, and extensive research groups, start-up companies, and large-scale collaborations with industry and other partners. Research is conducted within each of the University's extensive range of disciplines and multidisciplinary research programs addressing global-scale challenges. In 2013/14, UCD researchers secured €114 million in research grants from national and international funding agencies, companies, and foundations. Since 2004 UCD researchers have secured over €1 billion in such grants. Their research underpins national research and technology institutes and centers, including the €75 million Insight Centre for Data Analytics, the most extensive research grant in the Irish state's history. UCD has had nationally-leading success in many of the most prestigious European awards, including the European Research Council and Marie Sklodowska-Curie schemes. Over the last decade, UCD researchers have doubled their annual number of papers in the international literature. They have co-authored publications with more than 7,000 international researchers from more than 130 countries. Other researchers cite these papers at a rate that is 59% above the world average. As Ireland's leader in innovation, technology transfer, and commercialization, UCD's commitment to innovation and entrepreneurship recognizes the importance of actively participating, contributing, and collaborating to exploit leading-edge research and development outputs. In 2014 UCD was ranked 5th among European universities for its track record in educating successful entrepreneurs. UCD offers the most prominent start-up incubator center and support in Ireland. Supports for innovation include NovaUCD, the center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurs NexusUCD, the Industry Partnership Centre, and the UCD Enterprise Gateway. To date, 30 UCD spin-out companies and 242 start-ups have been supported by NovaUCD, and over €100 million in equity funding has been raised for spin-outs. UCD is Ireland's University of the first choice, leading in first-preference applications in Ireland year after year and being the University of the first choice for international students coming to Ireland. The University attracts top students: some 1,525 of the 1st year entrants in 2014 achieved 500 Leaving Certificate points – just 10% of all Leaving Cert students attain these results. The first-year retention rate is 98%, and over half of UCD undergraduates progress to graduate studies. UCD is globally recognized for its excellence in teaching and learning – 9 subjects are ranked in the top 100 in the world out of 30 subjects (QS World University Ranking by Subject 2015). The University is first in Ireland in 12 subjects. A high standard of support complements this quality of teaching. Every incoming first year is assigned a peer mentor, and there are student advisers for every program. UCD is Ireland's leader in graduate education, with over 8,000 graduate students, almost a quarter of whom are graduate research students 1,580 Ph.D. students benefit from a structured Ph.D. program and the research-led education culture at UCD. The UCD Horizons scheme of modern, modularised education based on learning outcomes sees that 50% of students take modules outside their subject areas. UCD is the only Irish University to provide the EU Supplement Label to students for international recognition of qualifications. It is also number one in Ireland in the QS Employer Reputation Survey – 129th in the world. The UCD Strategic Plan was officially announced by Professor Andrew J. Deeks, President of University College Dublin, in the Minister for Education & Skills, Ms. Jan O'Sullivan TD, on 11 November 2014. View full university

Founded in 1592, Trinity College Dublin is Ireland's university on the world stage, offering undergraduate and postgraduate programs across 24 schools and three faculties: arts, humanities, and social sciences engineering, maths and science and health sciences. Spread across 50 acres in Dublin city center. Trinity's 17,000-strong student body comes from all 32 counties and more than 120 countries, making it a cosmopolitan campus focusing on diversity, intellectual rigor, academic excellence, and research-led teaching. Home to Nobel prize-winners such as scientist Ernest Walton and writer Samuel Beckett, Trinity draws visitors from across the world to its historic campus each year, including the Book of Kells and Science Gallery, which captures the university's connection to both old and new. At Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, we provide a liberal environment where independence of thought is highly valued, and all are encouraged to achieve their potential. We promote a diverse, interdisciplinary, inclusive environment that nurtures ground-breaking research, innovation, and creativity by engaging with global significance issues. Located in a beautiful campus in the heart of Dublin's city center, Trinity is Ireland's highest-ranked university and one of the world's top 100. It is home to 17,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students across all the major disciplines in the arts and humanities and business, law, engineering, science, and health sciences. Trinity's tradition of independent intellectual inquiry has produced some of the world's finest, most original minds, including the writer's Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett (Nobel laureate), the scientists William Rowan Hamilton and Ernest Walton (Nobel laureate), the political thinker Edmund Burke, and the former President of Ireland and UNHCR Mary Robinson. Today, this tradition finds expression in a campus culture of scholarship, innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship, and dedication to societal reform. Our city-center campus has been the beating heart of Dublin and Ireland for well over four centuries. I first came here as an engineering student in the early 1980s, and I can still recognize my youth's well-loved campus. However, it has also been transformed into a global, interdisciplinary 21st-century university. Trinity researches at the cutting edge in exciting new fields like nanoscience, immunology, creative technologies, digital humanities, and all the traditional disciplines. We welcome students from over 120 countries, and we drive innovation and entrepreneurship in both research and education. Trinity produces a fifth of all spin-out companies in Ireland, and we are Europe's number 1 university for educating entrepreneurs. There is so much activity ongoing across the university – with research projects, access programs, public lectures, student clubs & societies, plays, readings, workshops, exhibitions, outreach… We have done our best to capture the full myriad of activities on this website. I hope you will enjoy exploring these pages to learn more about this great university. View full university

At the Dublin Institute of Technology, innovation is our tradition. We have produced generations of leaders from business law, social sciences, tourism & hospitality, the creative & visual arts to engineering & the built environment. Our lively City-Centre campuses, including our new research and innovation hub at Grangegorman, are home to more than 20,000 students from Ireland and abroad, creating culturally diverse and stimulating learning and research environment. DIT will soon join forces with IT Tallaght and IT Blanchardstown to form a Technological University catering for the Greater Dublin Region and beyond. Three physical campuses and a fourth digital campus will create an incomparable institution of higher learning offering wide-ranging opportunities to many more generations of leaders in the years to come. A comprehensive, dual-sector doctoral-awarding institution, DIT combines a traditional university's academic excellence with professional, career-oriented learning, preparing graduates for productive leadership roles. The core values reflected in its mission emphasize student-centered learning, useful knowledge, rigorous discovery and critical inquiry, and support for entrepreneurship and diversity. DIT undertakes research that is nationally relevant, internationally competitive, and strategically important. It is strongly focused on problem-solving and social and technological development and innovation that advances human knowledge and impacts people's life experiences. Research is conducted through two research institutes – Focus, which concentrates on new materials and technologies, and the Environmental Sustainability and Health Institute (ESHI) - and in 16 designated centers organized around strengths in food and health sciences social, economic and business development environmental sustainability information and communication technologies and creative arts and media. Close engagement locally and globally with society and the economy and collaborative links with a range of world-class companies and academic institutions internationally are essential components in everything DIT does. Besides bilateral institutional links, DIT participates as a full member of the European University Association (EUA) and the International Association of Universities (IAU). Dublin is a lively European capital city with a vibrant cultural life and a large, young student population. Based on six campus sites in the city center, within the next few years, DIT will relocate all its activities to a new education and research campus in the heart of the city at Grangegorman. The new campus will be a unique international innovation hub for the Dublin region, with education, research, and health facilities co-located with industry, business incubation, and community enterprise. To find out more about the Grangegorman project, see here. Located in the heart of Ireland's capital city, the Dublin Institute of Technology provides an innovative, responsive and caring learning environment for a diverse range and level of programs to students of all ages and backgrounds. Combines the academic quality of a traditional university with career-focused learning, discovery, and the application of knowledge, emphasizes excellence in learning, teaching, scholarship, research, and support for entrepreneurship, contributes to technological, economic, social, and cultural progress, and is engaged with and within our community. The Academic Quality Assurance office is also responsible for coordinating and managing the business of the Academic Council and its Sub Committees such as Academic Quality Assurance, Apprentice Education, and Recruitment & Admissions and for a range of sub-groups and working parties and bringing forward reports to the Institute's Governing Body in this respect. The Office plays a vital role in academic policy formulation and development, extending to implementing, reviewing, and updating a range of academic policies, including the Handbook for Academic Quality Enhancement and the Institute's General Assessment Regulations. The Office is also responsible for engaging with national and international HE quality networks and agencies and has a membership of the Irish Higher Education Quality Network and sub-groups of the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland. Further, the Office has a responsibility within the Institute about the Bologna process. The Office is closely involved in arrangements about partnerships with external institutions/organizations and deals with inquiries about the placement of the Institute's awards. View full university

Dublin City University is a university situated on the Northside of Dublin in Ireland. Created as the National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin, it enrolled its first students in 1980 and was elevated to university status in 1989 by statute. In September 2016, DCU completed the process, resulting in three Dublin institutions: Church of Ireland College of Education, Mater Dei Institute of Education, and St Patrick's College. The university currently has around 6,000 undergraduate students, over 600 research postgraduates, 1,800 taught postgraduate students, and over 50,000 alumni. Also, the university has around 1,200 online distance education students studying through DCU Connected. University has been designated as a Changemaker Campus by Ashoka U for its social innovation in higher education. There was 440 academic staff in 2006. Notable members of the academic staff include former Taoiseach John Bruton and "thinking" Guru Edward De Bono. Bruton accepted a position as Adjunct Faculty Member in the School of Law and Government in early 2004, and De Bono accepted an adjunct Professor in mid-2005. View full university