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The sun shone just in time for Maynooth University graduation ceremonies, which are taking place throughout this week.
Maynooth University will this week confer more than 2,300 students with a range of degrees at undergraduate and postgraduate level, including 24 PhD graduates.
Maynooth University is Ireland’s fastest growing university, with more than 12,500 students, including almost 1,600 taught postgraduate and professional students and a growing cohort of over 400 research students.
Maynooth University has recently marked 20 years since its foundation as an independent institution, and earlier was recognised as one of the leading new universities in the world when the Times Higher Education ranked it #80 in its 2018 Young University Rankings.
A total of 1,291 female students and 1,010 males are graduating, an increase of about 250 students from last September. This year, Maynooth will hold an extra day of ceremonies with 13 ceremonies to take place.
This year marked the first graduation for the students under the new Bachelor of Arts. The University restructured the degree three years ago to provide greater flexibility, the ability to specialise immediately or wait until after first year, opportunities to take electives, and an emphasis on critical skills. Also for the first time, Maynooth University is conferring Doctorates in Higher and Adult Education, Psychological Science, and Education.
Dr Maighread Tobin, Dunshaughlin, Co Meath who was conferred with a PhD in Sociology to-day at Maynooth University, pictured here with baby niece Fiadh Campion.
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