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Courses
Courses
Choosing a course is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make! View our courses and see what our students and lecturers have to say about the courses you are interested in at the links below.
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University Life
University Life
Each year more than 4,000 choose University of Galway as their University of choice. Find out what life at University of Galway is all about here.
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About University of Galway
About University of Galway
Since 1845, University of Galway has been sharing the highest quality teaching and research with Ireland and the world. Find out what makes our University so special – from our distinguished history to the latest news and campus developments.
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Colleges & Schools
Colleges & Schools
University of Galway has earned international recognition as a research-led university with a commitment to top quality teaching across a range of key areas of expertise.
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Research & Innovation
Research & Innovation
University of Galway’s vibrant research community take on some of the most pressing challenges of our times.
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Business & Industry
Guiding Breakthrough Research at University of Galway
We explore and facilitate commercial opportunities for the research community at University of Galway, as well as facilitating industry partnership.
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Alumni & Friends
Alumni & Friends
There are 128,000 University of Galway alumni worldwide. Stay connected to your alumni community! Join our social networks and update your details online.
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Community Engagement
Community Engagement
At University of Galway, we believe that the best learning takes place when you apply what you learn in a real world context. That's why many of our courses include work placements or community projects.
Key Enablers
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Achieving our strategic priorities will require collective effort and focus in the years ahead. We have identified five key enablers to support the implementation of our strategy – cross-cutting themes through which we will engage our university community to deliver positive change.
Supportive Environment:
We will enable and support all students and staff to reach their full potential in an engaging, accessible and inclusive learning environment by:
- mainstreaming equality, diversity and inclusion by design, and engendering commitment and collective responsibility through the establishment of KPIs at unit level within the University.
- continuing to improve access and participation for under-represented priority groups, including students with disabilities, through our pioneering work on widening participation in higher education.
- collaborating across the University to improve student success, using student data and feedback and tailoring services to support them to progress, enhance their physical, social and mental health and wellbeing – including through participation in sports – and ensure they are ready for the future.
- enhancing employee wellbeing and engagement through the development of our staff, a focus on sustainable and equitable employment practices, and the provision of social, wellbeing, and learning opportunities, as informed by externally accredited frameworks.
Effective Communications:
We will communicate our distinctive impact, build reputation with key audiences, and engage our university community by:
- designing targeted communications and engagement strategies to build the University’s reputation globally, and putting in place the systems, processes and technology to support their impact.
- telling our university’s story through engaging digital content, including a redesigned website.
Sustainability Leadership
Building upon our global reputation for sustainability impact, we will intensify the transition to a more sustainable future by:
- further embedding sustainability in our teaching, research and campus operations through our Learn-Live-Lead model.
- deepening our engagement with sustainability partners, locally, nationally and internationally, to inspire and share in positive change.
- moving ambitiously towards carbon neutrality and enhancing biodiversity across our estate.
- aiming for a STARS Platinum Award in recognition of oursustainability impact across these domains.
Global Engagement
We will secure our position in the world through the development of a strategic internationalisation plan that strengthens our global profile and underpins our research and education ambitions by:
- growing and diversifying our international student and staff recruitment within an enabling environment that enriches our university community, attracts talent to our city and region, and supports our strategic priorities.
- widening opportunities for international mobility, both physical and virtual, and supporting global employability for our students.
- building our network of strategic partnerships in key regions around the globe and engaging ever more deeply through the Coimbra Group and our ENLIGHT European University Alliance.
Chun ár dtosaíochtaí straitéiseacha a bhaint amach beidh orainn ar fad oibriú le chéile agus díriú orthu sna blianta amach romhainn. Tá cúig bhunchloch aitheanta againn chun tacú le cur i bhfeidhm ár straitéise – téamaí leathana trína spreagfaimid pobal na hollscoile chun athrú chun feabhais a bhaint amach.
Timpeallacht Thacúil:
Tabharfar gach cúnamh agus tacaíocht do na mic léinn agus don fhoireann barr a gcumais a bhaint amach i dtimpeallacht foghlama atá tarraingteach, inrochtana agus cuimsitheach trí na nithe seo a leanas a dhéanamh:
- comhionannas, éagsúlacht agus cuimsiú a chur i lár an aonaigh ón tús, agus tiomantas agus freagracht chomhchoiteann a chothú trí Phríomhtháscairí Feidhmíochta a bhunú ag leibhéal an aonaid laistigh den Ollscoil.
- leanúint le feabhas a chur ar rochtain agus rannpháirtíocht do ghrúpaí tosaíochta faoi ghannionadaíocht, lena n-áirítear mic léinn faoi mhíchumas, trínár gcuid oibre ceannródaíochta ar rannpháirtíocht a leathnú san ardoideachas.
- comhoibriú ar fud na hOllscoile chun rath na mac léinn a fheabhsú, ag baint úsáid as sonraí agus aiseolas na mac léinn agus seirbhísí a oiriúnú chun tacú leo dul chun cinn a dhéanamh, a sláinte agus folláine fhisiceach, shóisialta agus mheabhrach a fheabhsú – lena n-áirítear trí bheith páirteach i spórt – agus a chinntiú go bhfuil siad réidh don todhchaí.
- folláine agus rannpháirtíocht fostaithe a fheabhsú trí fhorbairt na foirne, an bhéim a chur ar chleachtais fostaíochta inbhuanaithe agus chothroma, agus deiseanna sóisialta, folláine agus foghlama a sholáthar, bunaithe ar chreataí creidiúnaithe seachtracha.
Cumarsáid Éifeachtach:
Cuirfimid ár dtionchar sainiúil in iúl, cuirfimid lenár gcáil i measc ár spriocphobail, agus beimid i dteagmháil lenár bpobal ollscoile mar seo a leanas:
- straitéisí spriocdhírithe cumarsáide agus rannpháirtíochta a dhearadh chun cáil dhomhanda na hOllscoile a fhorbairt, agus na córais, na próisis agus an teicneolaíocht a chur i bhfeidhm chun tacú lena dtionchar.
- scéal na hOllscoile a insint trí ábhar digiteach tarraingteach, lena n-áirítear láithreán nua gréasáin.
Ceannaireacht Inbhuanaitheachta
Ag tógáil ar ár gcáil dhomhanda as tionchar na hinbhuanaitheachta, cuirfimid dlús leis an aistriú chuig todhchaí níos inbhuanaithe ar an gcaoi seo a leanas:
- inbhuanaitheacht a leabú tuilleadh sa teagasc, sa taighde agus in oibríochtaí an champais trínár múnla Foghlaim-Mair-Spreag.
- ár rannpháirtíocht le comhpháirtithe inbhuanaitheachta a láidriú, go háitiúil, go náisiúnta agus go hidirnáisiúnta, chun athrú dearfach a spreagadh agus a roinnt.
- bogadh go huaillmhianach i dtreo neodracht charbóin agus cur leis an mbithéagsúlacht ar fud an eastáit.
- díriú ar Ghradam Platanaim STARS mar aitheantas ar ár dtionchar inbhuanaitheachta sna réimsí sin.
Rannpháirtíocht Dhomhanda:
Déanfaimid deimhin d’ár suíomh sa domhan trí phlean idirnáisiúnaithe straitéisigh a fhorbairt a neartaíonn ár bpróifíl dhomhanda agus a thacaíonn lenár n-uaillmhianta taighde agus oideachais trí:
- earcaíocht mac léinn agus foirne idirnáisiúnta a mhéadú i dtimpeallacht chumasaithe a shaibhríonn ár bpobal ollscoile, a mheallann tallann chuig ár gcathair agus ár réigiún, agus a thacaíonn lenár dtosaíochtaí straitéiseacha.
- deiseanna do shoghluaisteacht idirnáisiúnta a leathnú, idir fhisiciúil agus fhíorúil, agus tacú le hinfhostaitheacht dhomhanda ár mac léinn.
- ár líonra comhpháirtíochtaí straitéiseacha a thógáil i bpríomhréigiúin ar fud na cruinne agus teagmháil níos fearr a dhéanamh trí Ghrúpa Coimbra agus ár gComhghuaillíocht Ollscoileanna Eorpacha ENLIGHT.