University of Limerick Rankings for the 2025 year has slightly improved in QS World University Rankings. The university has improved from #426 in 2024 to #421 in 2025, which is the highest compared to the last 13 year's rankings. However, it slightly dropped in the Times Higher Education Rankings from #401-500 in 2024 to #501-600 in 2025. According to U.S. News and World Report Rankings, the University of Limerick ranks #942 among the Best Global Universities Rankings for 2024. The University of Limerick rankings on global platforms were majorly influenced by factors like international research network, sustainability, research quality and industry as per QS and Times Higher Education.

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University of Limerick Rankings: Worldwide

The below table displays University of Limerick rankings in the world by the popular ranking agencies between 2021 to 2025. The U.S. News, CWUR, and Shanghai Rankings are yet to release their global rankings for 2025.

Ranking Agency 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
QS World University Rankings #=421 #426 #531-540 #501-510 #511-520
U.S. Best Global Universities Rankings - #942 #889 #861 -
Times Higher Education #501-600 #401-500 #601-800 #601-800 #501-600
CWUR #701-800 #801-900 #801-900 - -
Shanghai Rankings - #925 #920 #939 #963

University of Limerick Rankings: Subject-Wise

University of Limerick is ranked for 24 courses in QS, 10 courses in THE and 5 courses in U.S. News. It ranks among the top 500 universities for popular courses like chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, electronic & electrical engineering and business & management studies in the QS WUR by Subject Rankings 2025.

University of Limerick QS Rankings by Subject

The University of Limerick witnessed a slight drop for Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering programs. While other subjects are still unchanged from the previous year.the Electrical and Electronic Engineering drop to #401-450 in 2025 from #351-400 in 2024 and Mechanical Engineering fell to #301-350 in 2025 from #201-250 in 2024.

Subject 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
Chemical Engineering #201-250 #201-250 #201-250 #201-250 #201-250
Mechanical Engineering #301-350 #201-250 #251-300 #251-300 #251-300
Engineering - Electrical and Electronic #401-450 #351-400 #401-450 #401-450 #401-450
Business and Management Studies #351-400 #351-400 #351-400 #301-350 #301-350
Computer Science and Information Systems #501-550 #451-500 #351-400 #351-400 #351-400
Arts and Humanities #=381 #=383 #401-450 ##=356 #401-450
Medicine #351-400 #351-400 #351-400 #351-400 #401-450

University of Limerick U.S News Rankings by Subject

University of Limerick ranks among the top 100 universities worldwide for Education and Educational Research program and is positioned at #55 in the U.S. Subject Rankings. Courses such as Psychiatry/Psychology, Public, Environmental and Occupational Health and Chemistry are listed among the top 500 subjects globally.

Subject Rankings 2025
Education and Educational Research #55
Psychiatry/Psychology #394
Public, Environmental and Occupational Health #426
Chemistry #438
Social Sciences and Public Health #566
#644
Clinical Medicine #781

University of Limerick THE Rankings by Subject

The subjects for University of Limerick in Times Higher Education are unchanged for Arts and Humanities, Life Sciences, Medical and Health, Engineering for 2025. The university heavily dropped for Business and Economics from #401-500 in 2024 to #501-600 in 2025. While the Computer Science rankings fell to #601-800 for 2025 from #501-600 in 2024.

Subject 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
Arts and Humanities #301-400 #301-400 #301-400 #401-500 #301-400
Life Sciences #301-400 #301-400 #301-400 #301-400 #301-400
Medical and Health #401-500 #401-500 #401-500 #401-500 #301-400
Engineering #401-500 #301-400 #301-400 #401-500 #301-400
Business and Economics #501-600 #401-500 #501-600 #401-500 #301-400
Computer Science #601-800 #501-600 #501-600 #501-600 #501-600

The University of Limerick rankings were seen to be favorable in QS World University Rankings 2025 compared to other ranking bodies. It slightly improved and even its highest ranking in QS in the last 13 years. Moreover, many of its subjects are ranking in top 500 globally as per the 2025 QS WUR Rankings by Subject.