Global Partnerships & Mobility

Since our foundation in 1592, Trinity College Dublin has been an international university attracting faculty, students and staff from every continent.  We are committed to increasing outward mobility of staff members and students. Trinity College Dublin has longstanding connections with some of the world’s great universities and has almost 300 exchange and mobility options for students and staff looking for a challenging international experience. Trinity is a member of the Coimbra Group, an association of long established European multidisciplinary universities of high international standard, and has numerous educational links with other members of the group along with being a participant in the Erasmus programme of student exchanges. Trinity students are encouraged to take advantage of the international exchange opportunities available to them with world leading institutions in countries such as Australia, USA, Canada and Singapore. With over 4,500 international academic staff and students from 122 countries around the world, set in an environment that encourages important international debate and global mobility, a Trinity education prepares students to be global citizens.

Trinity College Dublin has been involved in the Erasmus Programme since its inception in 1987 and continues to play an active and positive role in the Programme. Each year Trinity College Dublin students travel to universities across Europe to broaden their educational experiences and European students take advantage of the wide range of course options available to them at Trinity.

Trinity College Dublin has developed a range of strategic partnerships and our research collaborations span the globe and incorporate some of the world’s most prestigious institutions of higher education.  This high level of international collaboration is demonstrated by recent agreements signed by the University.  For example, a partnership agreement with Beihang University, one of China’s top universities, will enable both institutions to cooperate in teaching and research, and will facilitate exchange of students and researchers between the two institutions.  Collaborations with world-class universities such as the University of Chicago, Brown and Columbia in North America, the National University of Singapore, Peking and Tsingua Universities in China and IIT Delhi, the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and the Indian Institute of Science in India give students the opportunity to study at Trinity creating a multicultural environment thereby equipping all students with the intercultural expertise demanded in a global economy.  

Forging educational and research alliances with the very best global institutions, Trinity has research collaborations with Harvard (in engineering), Peking University (science), All India Institute of Medical Science (health sciences), Princeton (music) and North

Western (global health). Students from world-class universities such as the University of Chicago, Brown and Columbia, Singapore and Tsingua can spend time at Trinity and our students will benefit from the international and inter-cultural experiences that these exchanges bring.

• Ranked Ireland’s No 1 university and in the top 70 worldwide
• Trinity scores highest in Ireland in internationalisation, using the combined measures of the ratio of international to domestic students, the ratio of international to domestic staff and the proportion of international co-authored papers. (THE World University Ranking 2011)
• Trinity is ranked 16th in the world in terms of ‘International Outlook’ (THE World University Ranking 2011)
• Trinity is ranked 29th in the world for ‘International Faculty’ (QS World University Ranking 2011/2012)
• Trinity is ranked 38th in the world for ‘International Collaboration’ (Leiden World University Ranking 2011)
• Dublin ranked in top ten Best Student Cities in the world (QS Best Student Cities Ranking 2012)