Top ranking college attracts foreign faculty

UCD School of Business has appointed 14 new faculty members for the new academic year.

The majority of the new faculty are international appointees from as far afield as South Korea, as well as from the USA, Canada, France, Italy and Germany.

In addition, there are a number of new appointees from Ireland.

The new faculty will lecture at both the undergraduate school, UCD Quinn School of Business, and at UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business and will cover a diverse range of business subjects including accountancy, marketing, management information systems, global leadership, banking, finance, sustainable supply chain management, and human resources.

Professor Ciarán � h�gartaigh, Dean of UCD School of Business, said:

“With 60 per cent of our new faculty coming from overseas, this is a vote of confidence in how positively the new international faculty feel about Ireland’s university education system and our future prospects as a nation.

“To support the demand for graduates who can work across our increasingly globalised society we searched nationally and internationally for the best and brightest to join the world leading academics already teaching at UCD.

“Our students deserve nothing less.

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In addition to the new faculty members, two new Masters Degrees have been launched for the new academic year, the MSc in Digital Marketing and MSc in Energy and Environmental Finance.

Professor O hÃ?gartaigh added:

“The recruitment of these new faculty members is one of the key initiatives designed to consolidate our position as one of Europe’s leading business schools.

We are the only Irish business school listed in the Financial Times ranking of the top 100 global MBA programmes, maintaining our status as Ireland’s leading centre of excellence in this field.

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UCD was recently awarded the accolade of The Sunday Times University of the Year.

The Sunday Times University Guide 2013 is the definitive guide to higher education in Ireland and the UK.

The 2013 guide ranks Trinity College Dublin as the best university in Ireland for the tenth year in a row, measured against six key indicators, including Leaving Certificate points for entry, top degrees awarded, graduate job prospects and income generated from research.

UCD, which was also named Sunday Times University of the Year in 2006, is second in this year’s league table based largely on the strength of its improved ability to attract high-calibre undergraduates.

In 2011, UCD attracted the most money to fund research among all universities in Ireland.