University College Dublin
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 University College Dublin facts

• With over 1,482 faculty and 32,000 students, it is Ireland's largest university
• The university originates in a body founded in 1854 with John Henry Newman as the first rector known as the Catholic University of Ireland, re-formed in 1880 and chartered in its own right in 1908
• The Universities Act, 1997 renamed the constituent university as the "National University of Ireland, Dublin", and a ministerial order of 1998 renamed the institution as "University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin"
• Originally located in locations across Dublin city, all of the university's faculties have since been relocated to a 133-hectare (330-acre) campus at Belfield, four kilometres to the south of the city centre
• University College Dublin, is frequently ranked among the top universities in Europe
• There are five Nobel Laureates amongst University College Dublin's alumni and current and former staff
• A report published in May 2015 showed that the total economic output generated by UCD and its students in Ireland amounted to €1
• 3 billion annually