Dublin City University now ranked among the top 400 universities in the 2025 Times Higher Education World University Rankings
Dublin City University has risen in the 2025 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings and is now ranked among the top 400 universities in the world. DCU was ranked in the top 500 in the 2024 rankings.
Speaking about the 2025 rankings, Prof Daire Keogh, President of Dublin City University said
“This is a welcome affirmation that the University is delivering on its enduring mission to ‘transform lives and societies’. Our position, among the world’s top 400 universities, speaks to the excellence of DCU’s research, the positive impact we make on our wider world and the transformative education we provide for our students.
As always, the University’s progress and achievements are thanks to the hard work and exceptional commitment of DCU staff in everything they do.”
Prof John Doyle, Vice President for Research, said
"DCU being ranked at 301 in the world for research productivity and reputation by Times Higher Education, and ranked in the top 400 globally taking all factors together, is a major international endorsement of the level of our research activity and its quality.
This achievement reflects a significant increase in research activity across each of our five Faculties, research which is directly focused on the major social and economic challenges faced by Ireland and Europe as a whole. It reflects the excellence of our staff and postgraduate research communities and is further evidence that the much needed increased national investment in research can deliver positive results for the country."
About the Times Higher Education World University Rankings
The THE World University Rankings provide the definitive list of the world’s best universities, with an emphasis on the research mission. It is the only global university league table to judge research-intensive universities across all of their core missions: teaching (the learning environment); research environment (volume, income and reputation); research quality (the outputs of research); industry (knowledge transfer) and international outlook (staff, students and research). It uses 18 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons. The overall list is accompanied by 11 subject-specific rankings.
The rankings also draw on the rich database behind the World University Rankings to publish a series of regional and thematic rankings, offering deeper insights into a wider range of universities against a wider range of missions.
These include: Arab University Rankings, Asia University Rankings, Latin America University Rankings, World Reputation Rankings and Young University Rankings.
You can read more about this and previous year's rankings on the THE website.
Dublin City University‘s library was also recently shortlisted for a THE Award, in the Outstanding Library Team category.