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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

Photo (L-R): Dr Tom O'Callaghan, Professor John Morrissey, Martin Heydon T.D., Professor Joe Kerry.
17 Jul 2024

UCC-led projects awarded €2.4m from Department of Agriculture, Food, and the Marine

Three UCC-led projects have received a combined €2.4m from the Department of Agriculture, Food, and the Marine (DAFM) ‘Thematic Research Call’ to deliver solutions to address significant challenges in the agri-food sector.
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Photo (L-R): SFI-IRC Pathway Programme awardees Dr Jatin Nagpal, Dr Eileen Ryan and Dr David Jones. Photo: Ruben Tapia, UCC
11 Jul 2024

€2.9m funding awarded to UCC early career researchers in SFI-IRC Pathway Programme awards

Investigating the link between the microbiome and the development of stress-social circuits, the development of novel self-powered eco-friendly supercapacitors, and new approaches to the development of potential anti-viral drugs are amongst the University College Cork projects to receive a combined €2.9 million funding under the SFI-IRC Pathway Programme awards announced by Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Patrick O’Donovan TD.
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10 Jul 2024

UCC researcher receives prestigious recognition in Molecular Biology

Professor Pavel (Pasha) Baranov, a world leading researcher in Biomolecular Informatics in the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at UCC, has been elected to the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) for his outstanding research contributions to genetic decoding and mRNA (messenger RNA) translation.
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03 Jul 2024

Scientists discover new plants that could lead to ‘climate-proof’ chocolate

Scientists have found three new species that are close relatives to the plant from which chocolate is produced – a discovery that could pave the way for climate-proof chocolate.
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