Maynooth University

Maynooth University is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, located in Maynooth in County Kildare, Ireland, and it is placed in the 721-730 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings.梅努斯大学是爱尔兰国立大学的组成大学之一，位于爱尔兰基尔代尔郡梅努斯，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 721-730 区间。

It was founded by the Universities Act of 1997 from the secular faculties of St Patrick's College, Maynooth, which had been established in 1795, and it was Ireland's youngest university until Technological University Dublin was created in 2019.该校依 1997 年《大学法》由创办于 1795 年的梅努斯圣帕特里克学院的世俗学院组建而成，在 2019 年都柏林科技大学成立之前是爱尔兰最年轻的大学。

It has more than 16,000 students and over 1,000 staff from more than twenty countries, its OpenAlex record lists 22,398 works and 820,140 citations, and it is 1197th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities.该校有 16,000 余名学生与来自二十多个国家的 1,000 余名教职员，其 OpenAlex 记录列有研究成果 22,398 项、被引 820,140 次，并在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 1197。

History

• The site's institutional history begins in 1518, when Garret Óg Fitzgerald, Earl of Kildare, founded the College of St Mary at Maynooth.该地的机构史始于 1518 年，基尔代尔伯爵加勒特·奥格·菲茨杰拉德在梅努斯创办圣玛丽学院。

• That college was confiscated in 1535 as part of Henry VIII's religious reforms, ending the first attempt at higher learning at Maynooth.该学院于 1535 年在亨利八世宗教改革中被没收，梅努斯最早的办学尝试由此终结。

• The Royal College of St Patrick was established on 5 June 1795 under an act of the Irish Parliament, creating the institution from which the modern university descends.1795 年 6 月 5 日，依爱尔兰议会法案设立皇家圣帕特里克学院，现代梅努斯大学即由其发展而来。

• The college was founded to educate Catholic lay and ecclesiastical students, and the lay college operated from 1802 at Riverstown House on the south campus.该学院旨在培养天主教在俗与圣职学生，其在俗学院自 1802 年起设于南校区的里弗斯敦宅邸。

• In 1798, during the United Irishmen rebellion, eighteen of the college's sixty-nine students were expelled for taking the oath of the United Irishmen.1798 年爱尔兰人联合会起义期间，该学院 69 名学生中有 18 人因宣誓加入爱尔兰人联合会而被开除。

• The first ordinations took place in 1800, and after the opening of Clongowes Wood College the lay college was closed in 1817, leaving Maynooth as a seminary for almost 150 years, while a fifteen-year building campaign completed the buildings now bordering St Joseph's Square by 1824.首批晋铎于 1800 年举行；克朗戈斯伍德学院开办后，在俗学院于 1817 年关闭，梅努斯在此后近一百五十年间作为神学院运作，其间约十五年的营建使如今环绕圣约瑟夫广场的建筑于 1824 年前建成。

• In 1876 the college became a constituent college of the Catholic University of Ireland, and it later offered Royal University of Ireland degrees in arts and science.1876 年，该学院成为爱尔兰天主教大学的组成学院，此后开设爱尔兰皇家大学的文科与理科学位课程。

• In 1896 Maynooth was granted Pontifical University status by papal charter, allowing it to confer its own theology degrees.1896 年，梅努斯依教宗宪章获授宗座大学地位，从而得以自行授予神学学位。

• In 1910 St Patrick's College became a recognised constituent college of the National University of Ireland, which awarded its arts and science degrees from that time.1910 年，圣帕特里克学院成为爱尔兰国立大学受认可的组成学院，其文科与理科学位自此由国立大学授予。

• In 1966 the college again admitted lay students, a decision that greatly expanded it and effectively laid the foundation stone for Maynooth University.1966 年，该学院再次招收在俗学生，此举大幅扩展了办学规模，实际上为梅努斯大学奠定了基石。

• In 1997 the Universities Act transferred the faculties of arts, Celtic studies, philosophy and science from the recognised college of St Patrick's College to the new university, which was founded as the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, with an outreach campus at St Kieran's College in Kilkenny opened in the same year.1997 年，《大学法》把圣帕特里克学院受认可学院的文科、凯尔特研究、哲学与理学院系移交给新设立的大学，该大学以「爱尔兰国立大学梅努斯」之名成立，其设于基尔肯尼基兰学院的延伸校区亦于同年开办。

• Any student conferred with a National University of Ireland degree at St Patrick's College before 1997 is legally considered a graduate of Maynooth University.凡在 1997 年之前于圣帕特里克学院获爱尔兰国立大学学位者，在法律上被视为梅努斯大学的毕业生。

• The university expanded into new fields after 1997, adding psychology in 1999, engineering in 2001, media studies in 2004, business studies in 2007 and law in 2008.该校在 1997 年后拓展新领域，1999 年增设心理学、2001 年增设工程学、2004 年增设媒体研究、2007 年增设商科、2008 年增设法学。

• A 2001 agreement with the Irish Defence Forces provides joint programmes in leadership, management, engineering and computing up to master's level.2001 年与爱尔兰国防军达成的协议，为其提供截至硕士层次的领导力、管理、工程与计算联合课程。

• A Marie Curie Laboratory for Membrane Proteins opened in 2007 after the institution won European Union Marie Curie funding for the transfer of knowledge.2007 年，该校在获得欧盟「玛丽·居里」知识转移资助后启用膜蛋白实验室。

• In 2008 the university was named University of the Year by the Sunday Times, and in 2010 the School of Business was formed.2008 年，该校被《星期日泰晤士报》评为年度大学；2010 年，商学院正式组建。

• An extension to the John Paul II Library, covering 6,000 square metres and accommodating 1,700 students, was completed in December 2012.约翰·保罗二世图书馆的扩建工程于 2012 年 12 月完成，面积 6,000 平方米，可供 1,700 名学生使用。

• The Froebel College of Education has been situated on campus since 2013, and the university established a Froebel Department of Early Childhood and Primary Education, opening its Education Building in late September 2016.弗罗贝尔教育学院自 2013 年起设于校园内；该校设立弗罗贝尔幼儿与小学教育系，其教育大楼于 2016 年 9 月下旬启用。

• The institution was rebranded as Maynooth University in 2014, dropping the longer National University of Ireland, Maynooth title in everyday use, and it acquired most of the south campus from St Patrick's College in June 2026, adding twenty-eight acres and 24,000 square metres of buildings.该校于 2014 年重新定名为「梅努斯大学」，日常使用中不再沿用较长的名称；2026 年 6 月，它从圣帕特里克学院购得南校区的大部分，新增二十八英亩土地与 24,000 平方米建筑。

• In the Times Higher Education Young University Rankings of 2023 the university was the highest placed of Ireland's four universities under fifty years old.在 2023 年泰晤士高等教育年轻大学排名中，该校是爱尔兰四所建校不足五十年的大学中排名最高者。

Academics

• The university is divided into three faculties, those of arts, Celtic studies and philosophy, of science and engineering, and of social sciences, most students studying within one of these streams.该校分三个学院，即文科、凯尔特研究与哲学学院，科学与工程学院，以及社会科学学院，多数学生在其中一个板块内就读。

• As of 2016 the university had 1,800 postgraduate students, and its departments include law, mathematics, music, geography, economics and history.截至 2016 年，该校有 1,800 名研究生；其系所包括法学、数学、音乐、地理学、经济学与历史学。

• Science departments founded from the 1970s include biology in 1970, computer science in 1987 and psychology in 1999, alongside engineering from 2001.其自 1970 年代起设立的理科系所包括 1970 年的生物学、1987 年的计算机科学与 1999 年的心理学，以及 2001 年设立的工程学。

• Media studies was founded in 2004 within the school of English, media and theatre studies, and law was established as a department in 2009.媒体研究于 2004 年设立于英语、媒体与戏剧学院之内，法学则于 2009 年设系。

• The Froebel Department of Early Childhood and Primary Education awards Froebel College's four-year Bachelor of Education, Higher Diploma in Primary Education, master's degree in special and inclusive education and postgraduate diploma in arts in special education.弗罗贝尔幼儿与小学教育系授予弗罗贝尔学院原有的四年制教育学士、小学教育高级文凭、特殊与全纳教育硕士以及特殊教育文学研究生文凭。

• Religious education and theology modules are delivered by that department together with the faculty of theology of St Patrick's College, continuing the Froebel college's heritage.宗教教育与神学模块由该系与圣帕特里克学院神学院共同开设，延续弗罗贝尔学院的传承。

• The Marie Curie Laboratory for Membrane Proteins, opened in 2007, supports research in the life sciences funded through European Union mobility programmes.2007 年启用的膜蛋白实验室，支撑由欧盟人才流动计划资助的生命科学研究。

• A joint delivery arrangement with the Irish Defence Forces covers leadership, management, engineering and computing programmes up to master's level.与爱尔兰国防军的联合授课安排涵盖截至硕士层次的领导力、管理、工程与计算类课程。

• Maynooth University is a member of Universities Ireland, the Irish Universities Association, the European University Association, the European Association for International Education and Eurodoc.该校是爱尔兰大学联盟、爱尔兰大学协会、欧洲大学协会、欧洲国际教育协会与欧洲博士生与青年研究者理事会的成员。

• It also belongs to the Dublin Region Higher Education Alliance with Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, Dublin City University and four institutes of technology, and to the 3U Partnership with Dublin City University and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.它还与都柏林圣三一学院、都柏林大学学院、都柏林城市大学及四所理工学院同属都柏林地区高等教育联盟，并与都柏林城市大学、爱尔兰皇家外科医学院组成 3U 合作体。

• An LL.M. in international business law is offered as a dual degree with the Catholic University of Lyon in France, taught in English, and the Diploma in Arts in church music is delivered with the National Liturgy Institute.其国际商法法学硕士与法国里昂天主教大学合办、以英语授课；教会音乐文学文凭则与国家礼仪研究所合办。

• Programmes of the Kimmage Development Studies Centre have been delivered from Maynooth and accredited by the university since 2013, with the centre moving from Kimmage Manor to Maynooth in 2018.金梅奇发展研究中心的项目自 2013 年起在梅努斯授课并由该校认证，该中心亦于 2018 年从金梅奇庄园迁至梅努斯。

• The university employs more than 1,000 staff drawn from over twenty countries, supporting a student body of more than 16,000, and its research institutes include the Irish Climate Analysis and Research Units, the Institute of Immunology and the Hamilton Institute.该校聘有来自二十多个国家的 1,000 余名教职员，支撑 16,000 余名学生；其研究机构包括爱尔兰气候分析与研究单位、免疫学研究所以及汉密尔顿研究所。

• The Callan Institute, formerly the Institute of Microelectronics and Wireless Systems, researches electronic and software systems and wireless communications, and the National Centre for Geocomputation leads international work in geocomputation.卡兰研究所（原微电子与无线系统研究所）研究电子与软件系统及无线通信；国家地理计算中心则在地理计算领域开展国际领先研究。

• The Innovation Value Institute is a joint research institute founded by the university and Intel, awarded to Maynooth in 2006 in preference to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.创新价值研究所是该大学与英特尔共同创办的研究机构，2006 年在与麻省理工学院的竞争中由梅努斯获得。

• Further research bodies include the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis, run with Mary Immaculate College, the Institute of Technology Sligo and Queen's University Belfast, and An Foras Feasa for Irish historical and cultural traditions.其他研究机构还包括与玛丽无原罪学院、斯莱戈理工学院及贝尔法斯特女王大学合办的国家区域与空间分析研究所，以及研究爱尔兰历史文化传统的 An Foras Feasa。

Campus

• The university consists of two connected campuses, an older southern campus with nineteenth-century buildings shared with St Patrick's College, and a modern northern campus developed in the latter half of the twentieth century.该校由两处相连的校区组成：与圣帕特里克学院共用的、拥有十九世纪建筑的较老南校区，以及二十世纪后半叶开发的现代北校区。

• The main campus straddles the road from Maynooth to Kilcock, and the two parts were connected by a footbridge until mid-2011, after which a pedestrian crossing on the Kilcock Road took its place.主校区横跨梅努斯至基尔科克的道路，两侧原以人行天桥相连，2011 年中期后改由基尔科克路上的人行横道连接。

• The South Campus houses the facilities of St Patrick's College and most shared administrative offices, along with university departments including law, mathematics, music, geography, economics and history.南校区容纳圣帕特里克学院的设施与大部分共用行政办公室，并设法学、数学、音乐、地理、经济学与历史等大学系所。

• Its main nineteenth-century buildings are the Aula Maxima, St Patrick's House with the college chapel, and the John Paul II Library built in 1984, extended in December 2012.其主要十九世纪建筑包括大礼堂、带学院礼拜堂的圣帕特里克宅邸，以及 1984 年建成、2012 年 12 月扩建的约翰·保罗二世图书馆。

• New, Dunboyne, Humanity and Stoyte Houses form St Joseph's Square, and Logic House and Rhetoric House are further named buildings on the older campus.新楼、邓博因楼、人文楼与斯托伊特楼构成圣约瑟夫广场；逻辑楼与修辞楼是较老校区内另两座具名建筑。

• The first building completed on the South Campus was named after its designer John Stoyte, and Stoyte House stands close to Maynooth Castle.南校区最早建成的建筑以其设计者约翰·斯托伊特命名；斯托伊特宅邸紧邻梅努斯城堡。

• The university chapel stands just off St Joseph's Square, where masses, choir services and the traditional Christmas carol service are held, and the campus also houses the National Science Museum and the Russell Library.大学礼拜堂紧邻圣约瑟夫广场，弥撒、唱诗班与传统的圣诞颂歌礼拜在此举行；校区内还设国家科学博物馆与罗素图书馆。

• Maynooth University acquired most of the south campus from St Patrick's College in June 2026, adding twenty-eight acres and 24,000 square metres of buildings to its estate after years of renting those facilities.2026 年 6 月，梅努斯大学从圣帕特里克学院购得南校区的大部分，在多年租用之后为其校产新增二十八英亩土地与 24,000 平方米建筑。

• North Campus buildings include the Students' Union building, the sports complex, biosciences and engineering buildings, the Callan Science Building named after the induction coil inventor Nicholas Callan, the Iontas, Arts, Science and John Hume Buildings.北校区建筑包括学生会楼、体育综合体、生物科学与工程楼，以感应线圈发明者尼古拉斯·卡兰命名的卡兰理科楼，以及 Iontas、艺术、理科与约翰·休姆楼。

• The Eolas Building houses computer science, the business incubation centre and the Innovation Value Institute together with the Hamilton and Callan Institutes, while the Technology, Society and Innovation Building provides living labs and theatres of 500, 300 and 250 seats.Eolas 楼容纳计算机科学系、创业孵化中心、创新价值研究所以及汉密尔顿与卡兰研究所；技术、社会与创新大楼则提供生活实验室与分别可容纳 500、300 与 250 人的三座讲堂。

• Student services are based on the north campus, which also has playing fields and a sports complex with a fully equipped gym and an astroturf pitch.学生服务设在北校区，该校区还拥有运动场以及配备齐全健身房与人造草坪球场的体育综合体。

• The campus has four buildings for on-campus accommodation, named Rye, Village, River and Courtyard, alongside private renting in the town of Maynooth.校内四栋住宿楼分别名为 Rye、Village、River 与 Courtyard；学生亦可在梅努斯镇私人租房。

• The university maintained a campus at St Kieran's College in Kilkenny from September 1997 until June 2018, when it closed, consolidating teaching on the Maynooth campuses.该校自 1997 年 9 月至 2018 年 6 月在基尔肯尼的基兰学院设有校区，关闭后教学集中于梅努斯各校区。

• Maynooth is one of only two university towns in Ireland, the other being Tralee in County Kerry, giving the university a small-town setting about 25 kilometres west of Dublin.梅努斯是爱尔兰仅有的两座大学城之一，另一座是凯里郡的特拉利，这使该校处于都柏林以西约 25 公里的城镇环境中。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Maynooth University is placed in the 721-730 band, according to the official ranking table.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，梅努斯大学处于 721-730 区间。此排名以官方榜单为准。

• It stands in the 501-550 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and is 1197th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校处于 501-550 区间，并在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 1197。

• It is placed in the 801-900 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities published by ShanghaiRanking.在软科发布的 2026 年世界大学学术排名中，该校处于 801-900 区间。

• In 2008 it occupied fourth place in the Sunday Times Irish league table, behind Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin and University College Cork, having jumped three places since 2007.2008 年，该校在《星期日泰晤士报》爱尔兰高校榜中位列第四，位居都柏林圣三一学院、都柏林大学学院与科克大学学院之后，较 2007 年上升三位。

• That year it was also named University of the Year in The Sunday Times University Guide, beating University College Dublin into second place, and recorded almost one hundred per cent graduate employment.同年，它被《星期日泰晤士报大学指南》评为年度大学，把都柏林大学学院挤到第二；其毕业生就业率接近百分之百。

• In 2009 the university was listed among the top 500 in the Times Higher Education and QS World University Rankings, and in 2010 it recorded the highest growth in first-preference school-leaver applications in the sector.2009 年，该校进入泰晤士高等教育与 QS 世界大学排名的前 500；2010 年，其应届中学毕业生第一志愿申请量的增幅在爱尔兰高校中最高。

• In 2011 it became the first and only institution outside the United States to be included in the Princeton Review of Best Colleges.2011 年，它成为美国以外首家也是唯一被收入《普林斯顿评论》最佳大学指南的机构。

• In 2023 Times Higher Education ranked it the number one young university in Ireland, and its position on the 501-550 band of the THE table is its strongest result in the four major rankings.2023 年，泰晤士高等教育将其评为爱尔兰第一年轻大学；其在 THE 榜 501-550 的座次是它四大排名中的最佳成绩。

• OpenAlex attributes 22,398 works and 820,140 citations to the institution, a solid research base for a university founded in 1997, with the humanities and social sciences prominent.OpenAlex 记录该校 22,398 项成果与 820,140 次被引，对一所 1997 年创办的大学而言科研基础扎实，其中人文与社会科学尤为突出。

• As a constituent university of the National University of Ireland it awards National University of Ireland degrees and shares in that federation's recognition.作为爱尔兰国立大学的组成大学，它授予爱尔兰国立大学学位，并分享该联盟的认可度。

Student life

• The Maynooth Students' Union represents students of the university, of St Patrick's College and of the associated campus at St Kieran's College.梅努斯学生会代表该大学、圣帕特里克学院以及基兰学院关联校区的学生。

• The university offers sports scholarships in Gaelic games, rugby, golf, swimming, soccer and snooker, and is the only university in Ireland to offer scholarships in swimming.该校在盖尔运动、橄榄球、高尔夫、游泳、足球与斯诺克方面提供体育奖学金，并且是爱尔兰唯一提供游泳奖学金的大学。

• Rugby scholarships were introduced in 2006, obliging recipients to attend the rugby performance centre and to play for the university teams and Barnhall Rugby Club, which also runs a summer programme for players aged sixteen to twenty.橄榄球奖学金于 2006 年设立，获资助者须参加橄榄球表现中心训练，并为校队与巴恩霍尔橄榄球俱乐部效力，后者还为十六至二十岁球员开设暑期项目。

• The university has a standing annual inter-varsity competition with Dublin City University called the 35s, in which clubs compete sport by sport and the winner takes the most points out of thirty-five available across all sports.该校与都柏林城市大学每年举行固定的校际对抗赛「35s」，各俱乐部逐项较量，总分三十五分中得分最多者获胜。

• A Christmas carol service is held annually in the college chapel, open to staff and students of both institutions and to the public, with tickets allocated by lottery because of demand.每年在学院礼拜堂举行圣诞颂歌礼拜，面向两校师生与公众开放，因需求旺盛而采用抽签发票。

• The Hamilton Walk has taken place every October since 1990, when the mathematics department initiated a walk from Dunsink Observatory to Broombridge in Cabra to commemorate the mathematician William Rowan Hamilton.自 1990 年起，每年十月举行「汉密尔顿步行」，由数学系发起，从邓辛克天文台步行至卡布拉的布鲁姆桥，以纪念数学家威廉·罗恩·汉密尔顿。

• The Maynooth Alumni Association serves graduates of both the university and St Patrick's College, hosting an alumni ball and networking events and publishing the magazine The Bridge.梅努斯校友会服务该大学与圣帕特里克学院的毕业生，举办校友舞会与联谊活动，并出版杂志《The Bridge》。

• Students at the Faculty of Arts have access to more than six hundred subject combinations, and the university's location in a small university town shapes a largely campus-centred social life.文学院学生可选修六百余种学科组合；学校地处小型大学城，使社交生活以校园为中心。

• St Patrick's College won the inaugural Irish higher education television quiz Challenging Times in 1991, repeating the win in 1992 and 1999.圣帕特里克学院于 1991 年赢得爱尔兰首届高校电视知识竞赛「Challenging Times」冠军，并于 1992 与 1999 年再度夺冠。

• A robotic soccer team called Numanoids, jointly representing Maynooth and the University of Newcastle in Australia, won the RoboCup Standard Platform League world championship in July 2008 in Suzhou, China, against 440 teams from 35 countries.名为 Numanoids 的机器人足球队由梅努斯与澳大利亚纽卡斯尔大学联合组成，2008 年 7 月在中国苏州举行的 RoboCup 标准平台联赛世界锦标赛中，从 35 个国家 440 支队伍中夺冠。

• The university first entered the Microsoft Imagine Cup in 2007, taking first and third place in the Irish finals, and in 2010 won the award for best Windows Azure application with a cloud-based medical record system.该校 2007 年首次参加微软「创新杯」，在爱尔兰决赛中分获第一与第三；2010 年又以云端病历系统获得最佳 Windows Azure 应用奖。

Notable people

• John Hume, a graduate, was leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party from 1979 to 2001, an MP for Foyle and a Nobel laureate.校友约翰·休姆于 1979 至 2001 年担任社会民主工党领袖，曾任福伊尔选区议员，并获诺贝尔奖。

• Éamon de Valera, later President of Ireland, lectured in mathematics and mathematical physics at Maynooth in 1912.后来出任爱尔兰总统的埃蒙·德瓦莱拉，于 1912 年在梅努斯讲授数学与数学物理。

• Bertie Ahern, a former Taoiseach, was appointed honorary adjunct professor of mediation and conflict intervention in the school of business and law.爱尔兰前总理伯蒂·埃亨获聘为该校商学与法学学院的调解与冲突干预荣誉兼职教授。

• Richard Lalor Sheil, a playwright and associate of Daniel O'Connell, attended the lay college and spoke strongly in favour of the Maynooth Grant, while Stephen Woulfe, the first Catholic Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, also studied there.剧作家、丹尼尔·奥康奈尔的同道理查德·拉勒·希尔曾就读于在俗学院并大力支持《梅努斯拨款》；爱尔兰财政署首位天主教首席男爵斯蒂芬·伍尔夫亦曾在此求学。

• Kevin O'Higgins, a government minister in the early Irish Free State, and Maureen O'Brien, the first woman to reach the rank of brigadier general in the Irish Defence Forces, are counted among its alumni.爱尔兰自由邦早期政府部长凯文·奥希金斯，以及爱尔兰国防军中首位晋升准将的女性莫琳·奥布莱恩，均被列为该校校友。

• Brian Friel, the playwright and short story writer, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1948, and the playwright Frank McGuinness taught English at Maynooth.剧作家与短篇小说作家布赖恩·弗里尔于 1948 年获文学学士学位；剧作家弗兰克·麦吉尼斯曾在梅努斯教授英语。

• Eimear Quinn, who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1996, and the broadcaster Craig Doyle are alumni, as is Chris Morash, a former professor of English, media and theatre studies.1996 年欧洲歌唱大赛冠军艾米尔·奎恩与广播人克雷格·多伊尔均为该校校友；前英语、媒体与戏剧研究教授克里斯·莫拉什亦然。

• Nicholas Callan, inventor of the induction coil, was both a student and professor of natural philosophy at Maynooth, and the campus science building carries his name.感应线圈发明者尼古拉斯·卡兰曾在梅努斯求学并任自然哲学教授，校园内的理科楼即以他命名。

• Sir Dominic Corrigan, the physician and first Catholic president of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, studied at the lay college, and the philosopher Philip Pettit of Princeton University is also an alumnus.医生、爱尔兰皇家内科医学院首位天主教会长多米尼克·科里根爵士曾在在俗学院就读；普林斯顿大学哲学家菲利普·佩蒂特亦为该校校友。

• Daniel Mannix, a former president of Maynooth, later became Archbishop of Melbourne, and John Blowick founded the Maynooth Mission to China, known as the Columban Fathers.梅努斯前校长丹尼尔·曼尼克斯后来出任墨尔本大主教；约翰·布洛威克则创办了被称为「高隆庞会」的梅努斯赴华传教团。

• Honorary degrees have been awarded to the golfer Pádraig Harrington, the Aga Khan, the businessman Seán Quinn and the composer Krzysztof Penderecki.该校曾向高尔夫球手帕德里格·哈林顿、阿迦汗、商人肖恩·奎因与作曲家克日什托夫·潘德列茨基授予名誉学位。