The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) is a professional association that is responsible for the medical speciality of surgery throughout Ireland. Uniquely among the four mutually recognised medical royal colleges for surgery in the United Kingdom and Ireland, it also incorporates a medical school, which is Ireland’s largest with over 3,000 students from 60 countries and forms the core of a specialist university which shares its name. The body has held full university status since 2019, and is the first private university in Ireland.
The RCSI received its royal charter in 1784. Its main campus is situated on St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin. At present, it incorporates schools of medicine, pharmacy, physiotherapy and nursing, and thus provides both undergraduate and postgraduate levels of education and research activities in a number of healthcare fields.
In the Times Higher Education 2020 Impact Rankings, RCSI was ranked number one in the world for “Good Health and Well-being”.
Academic structure
Undergraduate Faculties
- School of Medicine (5 or 6-year programme, 4-year Graduate Entry Programme)
- School of Pharmacy
- School of Physiotherapy
Postgraduate Schools & Faculties[edit]
- School of Postgraduate Studies
- School of Nursing and Midwifery
- Faculty of Dentistry
- Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine
- Faculty of Radiologists
- Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery
- RCSI Institute of Leadership