Trinity was in the happy situation of moving up 10 places in the QS World University Rankings for 2018, to 88th in the world. That now makes Trinity not only the highest-placed Irish university in the QS rankings, but also the only Irish university placed in the Top 100.
However, if Irish academic institutions move down the worldwide rankings, an idea that is occasionally mooted is the “merger” of Trinity College Dublin (the sole constituent of the University of Dublin), and our friends/rivals University College Dublin (the National University of Ireland, Dublin), into a super university capable of taking on emerging Asian institutions as well as the old guard in the UK, Europe and the States.
