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A research-led college of excellence, delivering a range of high quality undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in all STEM subjects.

STEM at UCC Fact File

Over 5,000 Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students Annually

1,200 STEM-Enabled Graduates Annually

Over 90% of Our Graduates are in Employment or Further Study

Food Science and Engineering Ranked in the Top 50 of the Prestigious Shanghai Ranking of Global Subjects 2021

Agriculture in UCC Ranked in the Top 100 QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021

#1 For Student Experience in Ireland

Ranked 9th Globally in the UI Green Metric World University Ranking of Sustainable Universities

Cutting Edge Research with over 600 Academic and Research Staff

7 STEM Research Institutes and Centres

4 Academic Units in the College of SEFS with an Athena SWAN Bronze Award, Addressing Gender Imbalances in STEM Disciplines.

In The News

15 May 2024

€104 million Investment for Science Research

A €104 million investment in scientific research across Ireland has been announced by Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Patrick O’Donovan TD, and Minister for Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue TD.  The funding is being allocated to four SFI Research Centres: BiOrbic Bioeconomy SFI Research Centre; FutureNeuro SFI Research Centre for Neurological Diseases; I-Form SFI Research Centre for Advanced Manufacturing; and VistaMilk SFI Research Centre.  
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10 May 2024

UCC celebrates Fascination of Plants Day

UCC will celebrate Fascination of Plants Day (FoPD) on Friday, 17 May with an exhibition and guided tours at the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
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08 May 2024

Conference: Massive Black Holes in the First Billion Years

The School of Physics, UCC recently hosted a conference on 'Massive Black Holes in the First Billion Years' inspired by groundbreaking observations made by the European Space Agency’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
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07 May 2024

UCC researchers attend international Artificial Intelligence event in Amsterdam

Researchers from the SFI Centre for Research Training in Artficial Intelligence (CRT AI) attended a unique learning visit to the Amsterdam Science Park, Matrix 1 at the University of Amsterdam, for a series of lectures from leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) scientists.
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Block E, Level 3, Food Science Building, UCC, Cork, T12 YN60.

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