Technological University Dublin

Technological University Dublin, known as TU Dublin and in Irish as Ollscoil Teicneolaíochta Bhaile Átha Cliath, is a public technological university in Dublin, Ireland, placed in the 791-800 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings.都柏林科技大学（TU Dublin，爱尔兰语名「Ollscoil Teicneolaíochta Bhaile Átha Cliath」）是位于爱尔兰都柏林的公立技术大学，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 791-800 区间。

It was established on 1 January 2019 as Ireland's first technological university, formed by merging Dublin Institute of Technology with the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown and the Institute of Technology Tallaght.该校于 2019 年 1 月 1 日成立，是爱尔兰第一所技术大学，由都柏林理工学院与布兰查兹敦理工学院、塔拉理工学院合并而成。

With about 28,500 students it is the second-largest third-level institution in Ireland, employs roughly 2,700 full-time staff, and its OpenAlex record lists 10,251 research works and 183,062 citations.该校约有 28,500 名学生，是爱尔兰规模第二大的三级教育机构，雇有约 2,700 名全职员工，其 OpenAlex 记录列有研究成果 10,251 项、被引 183,062 次。

History

• The university traces its origins to the City of Dublin Technical Schools, whose Technical College at Kevin Street was founded in 1887 by the poet, songwriter and novelist Arnold Felix Graves.该校的源头是都柏林市技术学校，其位于凯文街的技术学院由诗人、词曲作家兼小说家阿诺德·费利克斯·格雷夫斯于 1887 年创办。

• In 1978 the College of Technology at Kevin Street merged with five other specialised Dublin colleges under a federalised arrangement to form the Dublin Institute of Technology.1978 年，凯文街的技术学院与都柏林另外五所专门学院在联邦制安排下合并，组建了都柏林理工学院。

• From 1976 to 1998 the institute shared facilities, equipment, staff, research seed funding and research partnerships with the University of Dublin, the degree-awarding body for Trinity College Dublin.1976 至 1998 年间，该学院与都柏林大学共享设施、设备、人员、研究种子基金并建立研究伙伴关系，而都柏林大学是都柏林圣三一学院的学位授予机构。

• That partnership was credited with a 22-fold increase in research output at the institute by 1992 compared with 1975, together with a marked rise in its academic standing.这一合作被认为使该学院 1992 年的研究产出相较 1975 年增长了 22 倍，其学术地位也显著提升。

• On 10 July 1992 the Minister for Education Séamus Brennan stated that the Dublin Institute of Technology would be given degree-awarding powers.1992 年 7 月 10 日，教育部长谢默斯·布伦南宣布都柏林理工学院将获得学位授予权。

• Fine Gael higher-education spokesperson Theresa Ahearn argued that the colleges had long experience of teaching to degree level and should be allowed to award their own degrees.爱尔兰统一党高等教育发言人特雷莎·埃亨主张，这些学院早有开设学位层次教学的经验，应获准自行授予学位。

• Those degree-awarding powers were ultimately granted in 1998 under the Dublin Institute of Technology Act of 1992.这些学位授予权最终于 1998 年依 1992 年《都柏林理工学院法》授予。

• The Institute of Technology Tallaght was established in 1992, teaching through schools of business and humanities, engineering, and science and computing.塔拉理工学院成立于 1992 年，通过商业与人文学院、工程学院以及科学与计算学院授课。

• The Institute of Technology Blanchardstown followed in 1999, offering courses through schools of business, humanities, and informatics and engineering.布兰查兹敦理工学院随后于 1999 年成立，通过商学院、人文学院以及信息学与工程学院开课。

• Following the Institutes of Technology Act 2006, Ireland had fourteen institutes of technology, and a political appetite grew for amalgamating several of them into more advanced technological universities on the European model.2006 年《理工学院法》之后，爱尔兰共有十四所理工学院，政治上逐渐出现把其中数所合并为欧洲式更高层次技术大学的意愿。

• In 2014 the Dublin Institute of Technology and the institutes at Blanchardstown and Tallaght jointly entered a formal process to seek university designation under the project title Technological University for Dublin Alliance, or TU4Dublin.2014 年，都柏林理工学院与布兰查兹敦、塔拉两所理工学院联合启动正式程序，争取大学地位，项目名为都柏林技术大学联盟（TU4Dublin）。

• A final application was submitted in April 2018, following the enactment of the Technological Universities Act 2018.在 2018 年《技术大学法》颁布后，最终申请于 2018 年 4 月提交。

• The formation of Technological University Dublin was approved in July 2018, and the university was formally established on 1 January 2019, on which date the preceding institutions were dissolved.都柏林科技大学的组建于 2018 年 7 月获批，学校于 2019 年 1 月 1 日正式成立，前身各机构同日解散。

• It became the eighth university in Ireland and the fourth in County Dublin.它成为爱尔兰第八所大学、都柏林郡第四所大学。

• In April 2019 TU Dublin sold its Kevin Street campus to York Capital and Westridge Real Estate for 140 million euro.2019 年 4 月，都柏林科技大学以 1.4 亿欧元把凯文街校区售予约克资本与西脊房地产。

• The Kevin Street campus was vacated in March 2021 and demolition works on the site began in April 2021.凯文街校区于 2021 年 3 月腾空，拆除工程于 2021 年 4 月动工。

• In March 2020 the university put the Aungier Street campus up for sale, with the site scheduled to close in 2023 as students and staff relocated to Grangegorman.2020 年 3 月，该校将安吉尔街校区挂牌出售，该校区定于 2023 年关闭，师生迁往格兰奇戈曼。

• The Grangegorman campus is now home to 10,000 students following the closure of the Kevin Street, Cathal Brugha Street, Rathmines and Camden Row sites.在凯文街、卡塔尔·布鲁亚街、拉斯迈恩斯与卡姆登路各站点关闭后，格兰奇戈曼校区如今容纳 10,000 名学生。

• The Technological University Dublin Students' Union was established by referendum in February 2019 as an amalgamation of the students' unions of the three predecessor institutes, and began operating on 1 July 2019.都柏林科技大学学生会于 2019 年 2 月经公投成立，由三所前身学院的学生会合并而成，并于 2019 年 7 月 1 日开始运作。

• Deirdre Lillis became President of the university in January 2025, succeeding the leadership that had guided the institution through its merger and campus consolidation.迪尔德丽·利利斯于 2025 年 1 月出任该校校长，接掌已引领学校完成合并与校区整合的领导班子。

• The institution's entrepreneurial ethos and industry-focused approach were set out at its launch by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and by Minister for Education and Skills Richard Bruton, who spoke of convergence between the arts, business, science and technology.该校的创业精神与面向产业的路径在成立时由总理利奥·瓦拉德卡与教育技能部长理查德·布鲁顿提出，后者谈到艺术、商业、科学与技术的融合。

• Membership of the European University of Technology alliance places TU Dublin among nine partner institutions, including the Technical University of Sofia, the Cyprus University of Technology and the Riga Technical University.作为欧洲技术大学联盟成员，都柏林科技大学与包括索菲亚技术大学、塞浦路斯理工大学和里加技术大学在内的九所伙伴院校并列。

• The technological-university model spread across Ireland thereafter, with Munster Technological University created in January 2021 from a merger of institutes of technology in Cork and Tralee.此后技术大学模式在爱尔兰扩展，芒斯特技术大学于 2021 年 1 月由科克与特拉利的理工学院合并而成。

Academics

• TU Dublin organises teaching into five faculties, their associated schools, and multiple research institutes and centres, spread across five campus locations.都柏林科技大学的教学分为五个学院及其下属各系，并设有多个研究机构与中心，分布在五个校区。

• The Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment contains schools of architecture, building and environment, electrical and electronic engineering, mechanical engineering, and transport and civil engineering.工程与建筑环境学院下设建筑、建筑与环境、电气与电子工程、机械工程以及交通与土木工程等系。

• The Faculty of Computing, Digital and Data includes the School of Computer Science, the School of Informatics and Cybersecurity, and the School of Mathematics and Statistics.计算、数字与数据学院包括计算机科学系、信息学与网络安全系以及数学与统计系。

• The Faculty of Sciences and Health hosts the School of Physics and Clinical and Optometric Sciences, the School of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the School of Biological, Health and Sports Sciences.科学与健康学院设有物理与临床及视光科学系、化学与制药科学系以及生物、健康与体育科学系。

• The Faculty of Arts and Humanities brings together the TU Dublin School of Art and Design, the School of Media, the School of Culinary Arts and Food Technology and the Conservatoire of Music and Drama.艺术与人文学院汇集了都柏林科技大学艺术与设计系、传媒系、烹饪艺术与食品技术系以及音乐与戏剧学院。

• The Faculty of Business teaches accounting and finance, management, marketing and retail and services management, together with a Graduate Business School.商学院教授会计与金融、管理、市场营销以及零售与服务管理，并设有研究生商学院。

• TU Dublin is the only institution in Ireland offering courses in optometry and ophthalmic dispensing, running a four-year BSc in optometry and a three-year BSc in ophthalmic dispensing.都柏林科技大学是爱尔兰唯一开设视光学与配镜课程的机构，提供四年制视光学理学士与三年制配镜理学士。

• Its physics, optometry and clinical measurement science degrees are fully accredited by the Institute of Physics, while National Framework of Qualifications Level 8 engineering degrees are accredited by Engineers Ireland.其物理、视光学与临床测量科学学位获物理学会完全认证，国家资格框架第八级工程学位则获爱尔兰工程师学会认证。

• The Graduate Research School delivers the university's PhD programmes along four themes covering environment, energy and health, information and media technologies, new materials and devices, and society, culture and enterprise.研究生院围绕环境、能源与健康，信息、通信与媒体技术，新材料与器件，以及社会、文化与创业四大主题开设博士项目。

• The university enrolled about 28,500 students and employed roughly 2,700 full-time staff, and its alumni network of graduates from TU Dublin and its three predecessor institutes numbers more than 175,000.该校注册学生约 28,500 名，雇有约 2,700 名全职员工，其由都柏林科技大学及三所前身学院毕业生组成的校友网络逾 175,000 人。

• Undergraduate admissions are made through the Central Applications Office, with applications opening in January and course offers based on points and subject requirements.本科招生通过中央申请办公室办理，申请于每年 1 月开放，录取依据分数与科目要求。

• The Greenway Hub on the Grangegorman campus houses the Environmental, Sustainability and Health Institute and the TU Dublin Hothouse innovation centre.格兰奇戈曼校区的绿道中心设有环境、可持续与健康研究所及都柏林科技大学温室创新中心。

• TU Dublin Hothouse operates a 21,500 square foot start-up incubator offering office space, conference rooms and access to staff and researchers.都柏林科技大学温室运营一处 21,500 平方英尺的初创孵化器，提供办公空间、会议室以及与教师和研究人员对接的机会。

• The Open Labs initiative, begun in 2018, had by February 2021 involved more than 150 start-ups and generated over 1.5 million euro in research income.始于 2018 年的开放实验室计划到 2021 年 2 月已吸引 150 余家初创企业参与，创造逾 150 万欧元研究收入。

• The Hothouse runs I-Cubed, a funded summer programme for current students and recent graduates who wish to start and run a business, alongside assistance with commercialisation and intellectual property.温室还开设 I-Cubed 项目，为希望创办并经营企业的在校生与应届毕业生提供带资助的暑期课程，并协助商业化与知识产权保护。

• The university's research is aligned with themes of environment and health, information technologies and new materials, supported through partners including Enterprise Ireland, Science Foundation Ireland and Horizon 2020.该校研究围绕环境与健康、信息技术以及新材料等主题，并通过爱尔兰企业局、爱尔兰科学基金会与地平线 2020 等伙伴获得支持。

Campus

• The university operates five main campuses, with Grangegorman, Aungier Street and Bolton Street in Dublin city and the Blanchardstown and Tallaght campuses in the Dublin suburbs.该校运营五个主校区，格兰奇戈曼、安吉尔街与博尔顿街位于都柏林市区，布兰查兹敦与塔拉校区位于都柏林郊区。

• The Grangegorman campus, described by the university as the largest investment in higher education in Ireland, is located at Dublin 7 and serves as the institution's flagship site.格兰奇戈曼校区被校方称为爱尔兰高等教育领域最大的一笔投资，位于都柏林第 7 区，是该校的旗舰校区。

• The university's registered postal address is Park House, 191 North Circular Road, Grangegorman, Dublin 7, and its main campus coordinates are 53.333061 degrees north and 6.248889 degrees west.该校注册通信地址为都柏林第 7 区格兰奇戈曼北环路 191 号帕克楼，主校区坐标为北纬 53.333061、西经 6.248889。

• The Academic Hub and Library, a five-storey building at Grangegorman, opened on 11 September 2026 and incorporates the restored North House.格兰奇戈曼的学术枢纽与图书馆为五层建筑，2026 年 9 月 11 日启用，并整合了经修复的北楼。

• North House and its West Wing were built between 1848 and 1854 as the male ward of the Richmond Lunatic Asylum, later serving as St Brendan's Hospital, and North House is a protected heritage building.北楼及其西翼建于 1848 至 1854 年，原为里士满疯人院的男性病房，后用作圣布伦丹医院，北楼属受保护历史建筑。

• The library in the Academic Hub holds extensive collections, a special collections reading space and support services including an Academic Writing and Learning Centre, a Maths Learning Centre and a Career Development Centre.学术枢纽内的图书馆藏书丰富，设有特藏阅览空间，并提供学术写作与学习中心、数学学习中心及职业发展中心等服务。

• The Greenway Hub provides research and innovation facilities, a start-up incubator of 21,500 square feet and access to the university's intellectual property support services.绿道中心提供研究与创新设施、21,500 平方英尺的初创孵化器，并提供该校知识产权支持服务。

• The historic Kevin Street campus, dating from the 1887 technical college, was sold in 2019 and demolished after 2021.历史悠久的凯文街校区可追溯至 1887 年的技术学院，于 2019 年售出，并在 2021 年以后拆除。

• The Bolton Street campus in Dublin 1 houses architecture, engineering and surveying teaching, while the Aungier Street campus in Dublin 2 specialised in business and media before its planned 2023 closure.都柏林第 1 区的博尔顿街校区承担建筑、工程与测量教学，都柏林第 2 区的安吉尔街校区在 2023 年计划关闭前以商科与传媒见长。

• The Blanchardstown campus at Dublin 15 and the Tallaght campus at Dublin 24 serve the western and south-western suburbs, with further development planned at both sites.都柏林第 15 区的布兰查兹敦校区与都柏林第 24 区的塔拉校区服务西部与西南郊，两地均规划进一步开发。

• The Grangegorman site had previously been occupied by the Richmond Lunatic Asylum and later St Brendan's Hospital, whose nineteenth-century buildings are retained within the modern academic campus.格兰奇戈曼地块此前为里士满疯人院及后来的圣布伦丹医院所在地，其十九世纪建筑被保留在现代学术校园之中。

Reputation

• TU Dublin is placed in the 791-800 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings.都柏林科技大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 791-800 区间。

• In the 2026 QS World University Rankings the university was listed in the 781-790 band.在 2026 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校被列于 781-790 区间。

• THE World University Rankings 2027 place it in the 1001-1200 band.2027 年度 THE 世界大学排名将其列于 1001-1200 区间。

• In 2021 Times Higher Education ranked TU Dublin 801-1000th in the World University Rankings, 201-300th in the Impact Rankings and 251-300th in the Young University Rankings.2021 年 THE 将都柏林科技大学列为世界大学排名 801-1000 名、影响力排名 201-300 名、年轻大学排名 251-300 名。

• Its OpenAlex record lists 10,251 research works and 183,062 citations.其 OpenAlex 记录列有研究成果 10,251 项、被引 183,062 次。

• In 2020 U-Multirank listed TU Dublin as having the highest number of very good scores of any higher-education institution in Ireland.2020 年 U-Multirank 将都柏林科技大学列为爱尔兰各高等教育机构中获「非常好」评级数量最多者。

• The university holds an Athena SWAN Bronze Award recognising its commitment to advancing gender equality in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.该校持有雅典娜 SWAN 铜奖，以表彰其在推进科学、技术、工程与数学领域性别平等方面的工作。

• TU Dublin is a member of the European University of Technology, a transnational alliance of nine European universities that also includes the Technical University of Sofia, the Cyprus University of Technology and the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.都柏林科技大学是欧洲技术大学联盟成员，该跨国联盟由九所欧洲大学组成，还包括索菲亚技术大学、塞浦路斯理工大学和达姆施塔特应用技术大学。

• Rooted in technical education from 1887, the university emphasises computer science, science and engineering subjects while spanning qualifications from National Framework of Qualifications Level 6 to Level 10.该校自 1887 年起以技术教育为根基，侧重计算机科学、科学与工程学科，其资格授予涵盖国家资格框架第六级至第十级。

• The founding of the technological university was framed around an entrepreneurial ethos, aiming to sit at the convergence of the arts, business, science and technology.这所技术大学的创建以创业精神为核心，力求处于艺术、商业、科学与技术的交汇处。

• The university's subject strengths in optometry, engineering and computing, together with its industry placements, underpin its graduate employability profile in Ireland.该校在视光学、工程与计算等学科上的优势，连同其产业实习安排，支撑了其在爱尔兰的毕业生就业表现。

Student life

• TU Dublin has no formal Latin motto, adopting instead the mission of forming people, cultivating science and renewing the country and the world through the excellence of example.都柏林科技大学没有正式的拉丁校训，其宗旨是培育人、涵养科学，并以表率的卓越更新国家与世界。

• Sport at the university is organised through about 40 student-run clubs spanning Gaelic games, association football, powerlifting, archery, rowing, skiing, basketball and cricket.该校体育由约 40 个学生运营的俱乐部组织，涵盖盖尔运动、足球、力量举、射箭、赛艇、滑雪、篮球与板球。

• The university's football club, TU Dublin F.C., formed at the 2019 merger, competes in the FAI National League, the third tier of the Republic of Ireland football league system.该校足球俱乐部都柏林科技大学队于 2019 年合并时组建，参加爱尔兰足球协会全国联赛，即爱尔兰共和国足球联赛体系的第三级别。

• More than 70 student-run societies operate across the five campuses, each receiving a stipend based on membership and formed by a petition of 20 current students.五个校区共有 70 多个学生社团，各社团按会员人数获得津贴，须由 20 名在校生联署请愿方可成立。

• The university's Students' Union, founded in 2019, oversees the election of class representatives, who gather class feedback and attend programme committee meetings with lecturers.该校学生会成立于 2019 年，负责组织班级代表的选举，代表们收集班级意见并参加与教师一同出席的课程委员会会议。

• Class representatives receive training from the National Student Engagement Programme before taking up their duties.班级代表在履职前接受国家学生参与项目的培训。

• Campus life is spread across the five sites, with students' union services, sports facilities and societies based at Grangegorman, Aungier Street, Bolton Street, Blanchardstown and Tallaght.校园生活分布在五个校区，学生会服务、体育设施与社团分别设在格兰奇戈曼、安吉尔街、博尔顿街、布兰查兹敦与塔拉。

• TU Dublin Fitness runs a gym and exercise studio offering discounted access to students, staff and graduates of the university.都柏林科技大学健身中心运营健身房与运动操房，为该校学生、教职工与毕业生提供折扣使用。

• The distinctive work-study culture inherited from the institute's industrial origins keeps the university closely tied to Dublin's technology and engineering employers.从学院产业出身继承而来的工读文化，使该校与都柏林的科技与工程雇主保持紧密联系。

Notable people

• Arnold Felix Graves, who founded the Kevin Street technical college in 1887, was an Irish poet, songwriter and novelist.阿诺德·费利克斯·格雷夫斯于 1887 年创办凯文街技术学院，是爱尔兰诗人、词曲作家与小说家。

• Bob Geldof, frontman of the Boomtown Rats and organiser of the Live Aid concerts, is listed among the university's notable alumni.鲍勃·格尔多夫是「新城之鼠」乐队主唱、Live Aid 演唱会组织者，被列入该校知名校友。

• Domhnall Gleeson is an Irish actor and writer counted among the institution's arts and humanities alumni.多姆纳尔·格里森是爱尔兰演员兼编剧，被列为该校艺术与人文学部校友。

• Colum McCann, the novelist, is an alumnus of the institution's writing and journalism tradition.小说家科拉姆·麦凯恩是该校写作与新闻传统的校友。

• Brendan Behan, the poet, novelist and playwright, is listed among the institution's literary alumni.诗人、小说家兼剧作家布伦丹·贝汉被列入该校文学界校友。

• Larry Mullen, drummer and co-founder of the rock band U2, appears on the university's register of notable alumni.摇滚乐队 U2 鼓手兼共同创办人拉里·马伦出现在该校的知名校友名录中。

• Darina Allen, founder of the Ballymaloe Cookery School, is an alumna of the institution's culinary arts tradition.巴利马洛烹饪学校创办人达里娜·艾伦是该校烹饪艺术传统的校友。

• Stephen Roche, the Irish cyclist who won the Tour de France in 1987, is counted among the university's sporting alumni.1987 年环法自行车赛冠军、爱尔兰车手斯蒂芬·罗奇被列为该校体育界校友。

• Hugh Wallace is an architect and media personality educated at the institution.休·华莱士是该校培养的建筑师与媒体人物。

• Alison Dunn, country manager of Amazon Ireland, is listed among the institution's business and leadership alumni.亚马逊爱尔兰区经理艾莉森·邓恩被列入该校商业与领导力校友。