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University of Limerick Rankings 2025

Limerick, Ireland

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#5 in Ireland

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Last updated on 11 Feb '25

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University of Limerick Ranking Highlights
University of Limerick Course-wise rankings
University of Limerick US World and News 2025
University of Limerick QS Ranking 2025
University of Limerick Times Higher Education (THE) World University Ranking 2025
University of Limerick ARWU (Shanghai) Ranking 2024
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University of Limerick Ranking Highlights

Renowned for its academic excellence and diverse campus community, the University of Limerick has consistently secured top global rankings. Offering a wide array of courses across various fields and disciplines for its students, University of Limerick stands out has an impressive global ranking, and is surely a world-class education place for international students.

Although multiple grading platforms are accessible for students to check university rankings, what makes the rankings by Shiksha stand out is that these rankings are based on the popularity of searches for this college across various categories.

Moving on, according to the 'University Ranking' category of QS 2025, the University of Limerick ranks #421, which is improving in comparison to its last year’s ranking, i.e., #426 in 2024. The University of Limerick also ranks #401 in THE 'University Ranking' category 2024. Compared to last year, the University of Limerick witnessed an improving trend in its THE (Times Higher Education) ranking, which stood at #601 in 2023.

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University of Limerick Course-wise rankings

As per the University of Limerick subject ranking 2024, many of the university courses are ranked among the top in the world. QS has ranked the University of Limerick at #51 for Nursing. Additionally, it is also ranked #51 for Pharmacy & Pharmacology by QS. THE has also ranked courses offered by the University of Limerick as top programs, namely Psychology, Arts & Humanities, Engineering, and Life Sciences, etc. The programs offered by the University of Limerick are quite popular and are ranked at #176 - 301 by THE in 2024, and according to the same ranking body, this University is ranked at #501 for the year 2025.

Ranked at #5 in Ireland by Shiksha Popularity Rankings, the University of Limerick is also ranked at #5 for MS in Ireland. Looking at the Shiksha Popularity Rankings by Courses, most of the University of Limerick courses are in the range of rank #3 to #5. Due to the availability of multiple rankings online which can prove to be overwhelming to students looking to study abroad, Shiksha Study Abroad launched Shiksha popularity rankings. With its launch, students are no longer required to check multiple ranking details to know about the performance of a particular university.

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University of Limerick US World and News 2025

The rankings by the US World and News are one of the most trusted and influential rankings in the world. It has been ranking the world's top universities for 36 years now. They assess more than 1400 higher education institutions in the US and the world.

Their rankings are based on a range of relevant parameters such as Graduation and retention rates, Social mobility, Graduation rate performance, Undergraduate academic reputation, Faculty resources for the current academic year, etc.

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US World and News ranked the University of Limerick at rank #942, which is a decline from the last year 2023, which was #889. From the ranking data in hand, it can be inferred that the rankings for the University of Limerick are declining in the Best Global Universities by this ranking body. The rankings for this university have been constantly declining since the year 2022.

Ranked by	2022	2023	2024
Global Universities	861	889	942

University of Limerick Vs Other Universities: US News Ranking Comparison

The University of Limerick is known for its high-quality research opportunities and good learning infrastructure. One brief comparison among the below-mentioned universities for their global rankings category. In comparison, the University of Limerick is not ranking better than the University of Galway and Dublin City University.

According to this ranking body, this university ranks higher than Maynooth University which is one of the similarly ranked universities in Ireland.

Given below are the rankings of Global Universities rankings of the mentioned universities/schools:

University	2024	2023	2022
University of Limerick	#942	#889	#861
University of Galway	#555	#551	#548
Maynooth University	#1114	#1254	#1198
Dublin City University	#861	#917	#861

For global university category rankings, the U.S. News & World Report ranks the universities according to their performance, which is set across a variety of indicators. These indicators are:

Ranking indicator	Weightage
Global research reputation	12.5%
Regional research reputation	12.5%
Publications	10%
Books	2.5%
Conferences	2.5%
Normalized citation impact	10%
Total citations	7.5%
Number of publications that are among the 10% most cited	12.5%
Percentage of total publications that are among the 10% most cited	10%
International collaboration – relative to the country	5%
International collaboration	5%
Number of highly cited papers that are among the top 1% most cited in their respective field	5%
Percentage of total publications that are among the top 1% of most highly cited papers	5%

University of Limerick QS Ranking 2025

QS World University Rankings are one of the most comprehensive rankings that have offered World University Rankings since 2004. For the year 2025, the University of Limerick QS ranking is #145 in Europe and #421 in the ‘World University’ category which is an improvement from the last year as the ranking for that year was 154 among the world's best universities. The rankings have been constantly improving since 2023 for this university in the ‘World University’ category.

Considering these ranking

Considering these rankings, the University of Limerick can be considered one of the best universities of the world. A few of the university’s subjects that have ranked well are Engineering and Technology; MBA, Law and Legal Studies, Biological Sciences, Medicine, Mathematics, etc.

Ranked by	2023	2024	2025
Europe	– / –	152	145
World University	501	426	421
Biological Sciences	– / –	601	601
Engineering and Technology	399	401	401
Law and Legal Studies	201	251	351
Mechanical Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering	251	201	301
Medicine	351	351	351
Nursing	101	51	101
Performing Arts	– / –	51	101
Physics and Astronomy	501	451	501
Politics	– / –	– / –	301

University of Limerick Vs Other Universities: QS Ranking Comparison

According to the QS rankings published for the year 2025, Dublin City University and the University of Limerick share the same rank which is #421. Out of all the similarly ranked universities mentioned below, the University of Galway ranks the best.

A detailed QS Rankings comparison among the three similarly ranked universities of Ireland is mentioned below:

University	2025	2024	2023
University of Limerick	#421	#426	#531-540
University of Galway	#273	#289	#270
Maynooth University	#801-850	#801-850	#801-1000
Dublin City University	#421	#436	#471

QS World University ranking body ranked over 1,500 institutions for the year 2025. The key metrics are academic reputation, citations per faculty, employer reputation, faculty/student ratio, and international faculty ratio / international student ratio. The overall score that the University of Limerick has attained in 2025 is 28.3.

Given below are the scores mentioned for the University of Limerick:

Parameters	Score
Academic reputation	18.3
Citations per paper	23
Employer reputation	25.5
Employment Outcomes	8
Faculty Student Ratio	15.7
International faculty ratio	87.1
International research network	72.5
International Student Ratio	30.8
Sustainability	76.4

University of Limerick Times Higher Education (THE) World University Ranking 2025

The rankings have been provided by THE (Times Higher Education) since the year 2004. The creation of these rankings is done to know and evaluate the university's performance on the global stage and provide a comprehensive ranking report for the students to make an informed higher education decision.

For the year 2025, the University of Limerick is ranked at #501 among the best universities in the world, the ranking improved significantly by 100 spots as it was 401 in the year 2024, which is also an improvement from the year 2023. THE ranking for the University of Limerick is fluctuating.

Ranked by	2023	2024	2025
University	601	401	501
Arts and Humanities	301	301	301
Clinical and Health	401	401	401
Engineering	301	301	401
Life Sciences	401	301	301
PG Business and Economics	501	401	501
PG Computer Science	501	501	601
Psychology	251	176	176

University of Limerick Vs Other Universities: THE World University Ranking Comparison

THE World University ranking body has provided the rankings for the year 2025, according to which the University of Limerick and Maynooth University share the rank of #401-600. Trinity College Dublin is ranking better than both of the universities.

The table below shows the comparison of the universities of various similarly ranked universities in Italy:

University	2025	2024	2023
University of Limerick	#501-600	#401-500	#601-800
University of Galway	#351-400	#301-350	#301-350
Maynooth University	#501-600	#401-500	#401-500
Trinity College Dublin	#139	#134	#161

Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings assess universities based on Research, Teaching, Knowledge Transfer, and International Outlook. For the year 2025, THE has ranked more than 2,500 institutions.

Below mentioned are the criteria pointers for the University of Limerick with their respective scores:

THE Ranking Criteria	Scores
Teaching	26.2
Research Environment	33.2
Research Quality	60.9
Industry	67
International Outlook	77.8

University of Limerick ARWU (Shanghai) Ranking 2024

ARWU, short for Academic Ranking of the World Universities also known as Shanghai Ranking is known as one of the best ranking bodies in the world. It is one of the three most influential rankings in the world alongside Times Higher Education World University Rankings and QS World University Rankings.

Over 2,500 Universities are ranked by ARWU every year. In the overall ARWU ranking, the University of Limerick ranks at #801 in 2024, which is the same as the year 2023, however, the university slid

Ranked by	2022	2023	2024
Universities	701	801	801
Nursing	201	– / –	– / –
Political Sciences	151	301	201

University of Limerick Vs Other Universities: ARWU Ranking Comparison

According to the comparison given below, in the rankings published by ARWU Rankings 2024, the University of Galway ranks better than the University of Limerick, the University College Dublin, and Trinity College Dublin.

A comparison of ARWU with other similar universities is given below:

University	2024	2023	2022
University of Limerick	#801-900	#801-900	#701-800
University of Galway	#601-700	#501-600	#501-600
Trinity College Dublin	#201-300	#201-300	#151-200
University College Dublin	#301-400	#301-400	#301-400

The ranking parameters of ARWU are quality of education, quality of faculty, research output, and per capita performance. The weightage that each parameter carries is given below:

Parameter	Weightage
Quality of Education	10%
Quality of Faculty	20%
Research Output	40%
Per Capital Performance	10%

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Part time work3.5

Post study jobs3.5

Quality of faculty4.4

Student Life4.6

Value for money4.1

Public transportation4.1

Safety4.5

Indian Food3.5

Permanent Immigration3.8

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MSc in Software Engineering - Batch of 2024

3.4

Fun loving, high-potential university.

Tips: The campus is great, the university is amazing, and there are a lot of extra-curricular activities. Professors are very open to helping students find part-time work. Off-campus living isn't bad. You save some money, but on-campus living is safer and more comfortable. However, you should have at least two years of experience to attend any Irish college. Ireland is still a bit of a mystery, or at least an unclear picture for me, because if I compare it with other countries, sometimes I pay double or triple for the cost of food and rent, etc. Also, taxes are very high. The good news is you can get a visa in 5 years if you have critical skills. Mostly, IT and healthcare fall under this category. Overall, I am satisfied with my experiences.

Reviewed on 8 Apr 2025Read more

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MSc in Business Analytics - Batch of 2023

4.1

A blend of learning and community.

Tips: There are a number of scholarship options available. Make sure to apply while making an application. The course M.Sc. in Business Analytics provides a great blend of academic professional guidance and self-learning. Be prepared to do a lot of research and most primarily if you are not very comfortable with English start to develop a basic understanding of accent. Rest assured, Ireland is a beautiful country and you will be amazed by the breathtaking landscape.

Likes (Safety): Limerick is quite good in terms of safety. Most people are well-behaved and ready to offer help in moments of need. University of Limerick is a huge campus and is situated at a well connected location through public transport. The campus provides a "First 7 weeks" programme to ensure quick access for the new students in the event of issues related to accommodation, etc.

Dislikes (Indian Food): Limerick has only a handful of options for Indian cuisine, and for vegetarians, the choices are even more limited. However, the good news is that the scene is gradually improving. Since I moved here in 2022, two new Indian restaurants have opened, offering more varieties and flavors to explore.

Reviewed on 2 Apr 2025Read more

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MSc Data Science and Statistical Learning - Batch of 2024

A University for the Integration of everything together.

Tips: I see that the Irish people talk too fast as it takes quite a time to understand their language. Similarly, people from other native English-speaking countries talk in a certain manner so in this scenario try to make local English-speaking friends and try to talk to them as much as possible so that you will learn how to carry out a conversation. If you apply for UL it will automatically check and grant you a scholarship of 1500 Euros. I love Ireland, and I would love it more once I get a full-time job. The University is also amazing, it has a lot to do. However, I feel the course I completed didn't help me learn anything. I also feel somewhere that I won't get a job for the Data Scientist position perhaps I will get one for my previous experiences.

Likes (Student Life): UL is full of fun, more than studies you will get to see something exciting every day on the campus. It is full of events and celebrations. The Post-graduation Student Union (PSU) is my favourite part here. They keep on organizing different events every other day on campus. There is a humongous group of societies that UL offers. It has every type of society of all interests. If a student is more of an extra-curricular person I recommend them to be a part of UL.

Dislikes (Quality of faculty): The faculty does not play a vital role in a student's journey here. The student has to decide their own future. No doubt the professor will always be at your back to answer any of your questions, but one should not expect spoon feeding from them. Most of the teaching methodologies here would be a combination of assignments, exams, projects, group projects, reports etc. The classes take place at the professor's convenience online or offline, some of the professors adopt a dynamic kind of teaching methodology where they only clear doubts of the students in the class and ask students to go through the notes at home. Most of the teachers here are Irish, and some of them belong to different countries such as Korea, Russia etc.

Reviewed on 22 Jun 2024Read more

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Mechanical Engineering MSc - Batch of 2024

4.3

University of Limerick : The heart of Ireland's academic scene.

Tips: It took some time for me to adjust according to the weather as it's cold and dry most of the time. I observed many friends complaining about less vegetarian options available, but it didn't bother me as I mostly consume non-veg. People here are polite and would help if asked for. I got approved for a scholarship offered by the university, it was around 1500 euros. Overall, I am quite satisfied with my course, university and country as it offers security, quality and options to excel forward.

Likes (Safety): The campus is the safest place because it has UL security and emergency points located throughout. The city area is safe and I have not faced any security concerns to date. Just be careful if you are new to that particular area before travelling late at night.

Dislikes (Indian Food): There are a number of Indian restaurants, including Aura, Swaad, and Bamboo, in the area, but you'll probably end up doing a fair bit of cooking on your own if you're on a budget. Eating out every day can get pretty expensive. I found a nice balance between the two, though. There are some good options for stocking up on groceries, too. Aldi, Tesco, and Lidl are all good options that should take care of most of your needs.

Reviewed on 22 Mar 2025Read more

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MSc Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning - Batch of 2024

3.8

Good university experience if you are financially stable.

Tips: This is my first time experiencing solitude in my whole life. It helps me learn a lot of things in life, like how to live alone. Ireland's culture is so calm and peaceful. Campus will have restricted access to important places, and meeting rooms will need your student ID card to access. Security is available to protect you at all times, and it's fully monitored 24/7. I have not faced any security issues in Limerick, and I've had many late nights out. I got a standard scholarship for 1,500 euros when I was admitted. Overall, I'm satisfied with the course, university and the country.

Dislikes (Part time work): There are opportunities for on-campus part-time jobs, such as working as a teaching assistant or a guide during events. However, opportunities are limited to short-term positions. Off-campus options are also limited. Depending on the students' academic schedule, some may only have time for a couple of days of work per week. All legal jobs require payment according to government regulations, so if you do have a registered job, you can expect to earn at least 12 euros per hour. The University is in Limerick County, which has a smaller population than most other countries, so there are limited options to pick from when it comes to off-campus part-time employment opportunities.

Reviewed on 9 Mar 2025Read more

Anonymous

BA in Economics - Batch of 2025

3.3

One of the best university with highly talented and knowledgeable faculty.

Tips: Students should know what they are getting into before they come to this college. They should know what they are going to study and where they are going to live. The accommodation is very bad, so you need to book your accommodation before you come to college. You also need to know what you are going to study. You must know these things before you come to college.

Likes (Part time work): Part-time jobs are easily available. You can get a part-time job whenever you want, and it's very easy to get a job. They all need students for part-time jobs, and you can work here and earn good money, like 1000 per month while working 80 hours per month.

Dislikes (Internships): Internships are very low because the university does not provide any internships. If you want to do an internship, you have to find one yourself. The university will only provide the title of the internship, but nothing else.

Reviewed on 19 Nov 2024Read more

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The University of Limerick is one of the most prestigious universities in IRELAND. The University of Limerick placement rate is 88%, for undergraduate graduates. This figure indicates that out of every 100 students, around 88 students get employed. The average salary of Limerick University graduates

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Is University of Limerick good for international students?

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The University of Limerick is among the top choices of international students to continue their higher studies in Ireland. Limerick University is known for offering best academic programs at UG and PG levels for its international students. The University of Limerick student body features over 2,700

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What is the placement rate of University of Limerick?

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The University of Limerick is recognised for offering the highest placement rate in the IRELAND. The University of Limerick placement rate is 88%, and the graduates are employed within 6 months of graduation. This figure indicates that out of every 100 students, around 88 students get employed. Lime

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In which sectors University of Limerick graduates work?

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The University of Limerick is one of the most prestigious universities in the Ireland. The University of Limerick placement rate is 88%. This figure indicates that out of every 100 students, around 88 students get employed. According to the student reviews on Shiksha, Limerick University graduates c

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Who are the top employers at University of Limerick?

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The University of Limerick is one of most esteemed universities in the United Kingdom for higher education. The University of Limerick placement rate is 88%, and the students are employed within 6 month of graduation. This figure indicates that out of every 100 students, around 88 students get emplo

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