NUI Galway & the World

NUI Galway & the World - our internationalisation strategy

To ensure that NUI Galway is a university of choice, relevance and renown in the eyes of the world

We Will

• Recruit the best international students to our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes
• Offer all students international engagement opportunities throughout their time at NUI Galway
• Encourage staff to engage internationally, with appropriate recognition in our career development systems
• Develop priority institutional alliances that enhance NUI Galway’s reputation and activities, focusing on the quality of our partnerships as well as the number of new relationships
• Continue to improve our performance in world university rankings, and subject rankings in our priority areas
• Promote sustainable international development, awareness of human rights, and globally conscientious citizenship
• Foster a culturally enriched, respectful and accommodating campus environment

Measures of Success

• Ranked in the top 200 universities in at least one world university ranking
• 25% of student body coming from outside Ireland, maintaining the global spread of our student population
• A suite of global scholarships to recruit international students of the highest calibre
• Opportunities for international engagement incorporated into all undergraduate and postgraduate programmes
• At least one degree programme per College jointly delivered with an international partner university
• Six major university-level strategic alliances with international partners, focusing on identified strategic catchment areas
• Increased international research profile, as measured by international citations
• Enhanced success rates in international funding bids