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Dublin
22,000
3.0 (4.0 scale)
Fall semester (Sept-Dec)
Full year (Sept-June)
Spring semester (Jan-June)
April 15 for fall or full year; October 15 for spring
http://www.ucd.ie
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Lindsey Jendraszak

University College Dublin is a Rapid Response program
What is this?

What UCD has to offer
• Ireland’s largest and most richly diversified university
• Alumni include James Joyce and five of Ireland's eleven Prime Ministers
• A research-intensive institution with a reputation for teaching excellence
• A creative and collegial environment
• Spacious, self-contained campus with a medical center, banks, a travel office, bookstore, bicycle shop, sports center, restaurant facilities and two bars
• More than 100 campus clubs that are a huge part of UCD’s social life
• An active Student Union that sponsors sports matches, films, concerts, parties and other social events
• First-rate academic and athletic facilities
• Cultural program of events for all international students

Housing
• Housing is in one of three residential complexes on campus or in IFSA-Butler-operated housing a short commute away
• In all housing, students purchase or prepare their own meals
• Students in IFSA-Butler-operated housing may stay in their housing during vacation periods between terms

Academics
• UCD is made up of five colleges: Business & Law; Arts and Celtic studies; Human Sciences; Life Sciences and Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences
• Students apply to one college and choose all or most of their classes from schools (departments) within that college
• Students may take electives outside of their chosen college
• UCD offers a service learning course that lets students learn about issues vital to society through active participation in the community and university lectures
• Students take a varied number of courses, depending on course weight

Top departments
• English
• Business (especially marketing)
• Sociology
• Science, especially biochemistry and botany
• Agricultural science