Dublin City University is a university based on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland. Created as the National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin in 1975, it enrolled its first students in 1980, and was elevated to university status (along with the NIHE Limerick, now the University of Limerick) in September 1989 by statute.
In September 2016, DCU completed the process of incorporating four other Dublin-based educational institutions: the Church of Ireland College of Education, All Hallows College, Mater Dei Institute of Education and St Patrick’s College.
As of 2020, the university has 17,400 students and over 80,000 alumni. In addition the university has around 1,200 online distance education students studying through DCU Connected. There were 1,690 staff in 2019. Notable members of the academic staff include former Taoiseach, John Bruton and “thinking” Guru Edward De Bono. Bruton accepted a position as Adjunct Faculty Member in the School of Law and Government in early 2004 and De Bono accepted an adjunct Professorship in the university in mid-2005.
The founding president of the institution was Dr Danny O’Hare, who retired in 1999 after 22 years’ service. After a period of administration by an acting president, Professor Albert Pratt, Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski was appointed and continued as president for a full ten-year term, which ended in July 2010. Professor Brian MacCraith was appointed next and was succeeded in 2020 by the current president, Professor Daire Keogh.
Faculties and Schools
DCU Business School
Faculty of Engineering & Computing
- School of Computing
- School of Electronic Engineering
- School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
- School of Applied Language & Intercultural Studies (SALIS)
- School of Communications
- School of Law & Government
- School of English
- School of History and Geography
- School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music
- Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge
DCU Institute of Education
- School of Arts Education & Movement
- School of Human Development
- School of Inclusive & Special Education
- School of Language, Literacy & Early Childhood Education
- School of Policy & Practice
- School of STEM Education, Innovation & Global Studies
Faculty of Science & Health
- School of Biotechnology
- School of Chemical Sciences
- School of Health & Human Performance
- School of Mathematical Sciences
- School of Nursing & Human Sciences
- School of Physical Sciences
- School of Psychology
DCU Connected – Online Education