Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 83.12
Liaison Richard Manton
Submission Date Sept. 12, 2024

STARS v2.2

Ollscoil na Gaillimhe - University of Galway
PRE-3: Institutional Boundary

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A Dean Pearce
Head of Facilities Management and Services
Buildings Offices
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Institution type:
Doctoral/Research

Institutional control:
Public

A brief description of the institution’s main campus and other aspects of the institutional boundary used to complete this report:

University of Galway (formerly known as National University of Ireland, Galway) is one of Ireland’s foremost centres of academic excellence, with over 19,000 students and a staff complement of over 2,500. The University’s main campus is located in Galway City spread over 105 hectares along the banks of the River Corrib (see attached map). The campus comprises approximately 100 individual buildings, as well as parking areas, student accommodation, and sports facilities. The University also has city centre property at Nuns Island, Newcastle Road, Westside, and Dangan which are considered to form part of main campus. The University also provides academic, administrative and research facilities in a number of satellite locations. The attached pdf map shows the main campus.


Which of the following features are present on campus and which are included within the institutional boundary?:
Present? Included?
Agricultural school No No
Medical school Yes Yes
Other professional school with labs or clinics (e.g. dental, nursing, pharmacy, public health, veterinary) Yes Yes
Museum No No
Satellite campus Yes Yes
Farm larger than 2 hectares or 5 acres No No
Agricultural experiment station larger than 2 hectares or 5 acres No No
Hospital No No

The rationale for excluding any features that are present from the institutional boundary:

N/A


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Further information on the University boundary can be found here: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/buildings/


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