All four-year degree courses include an eight-month placement in a relevant area. Students taking aeronautical engineering travel to the Boeing plant in Seattle or Airbus in Toulouse. Students taking equine science go to Kentucky, a main centre of the horse-breeding industry.
About one in five adults in Limerick is involved in third-level education, whether at UL, Mary Immaculate College or LIT.
Result: a lively social scene for students.
UL has strong links with major employers.
Students find placements in companies such as AIB, Intel and JP Morgan, in London, all of which have long- established links with the college. Some 2,000 placements are organised every year.
Every first year undergraduate is guaranteed accommodation.
Students are housed in trendy apartments with pizzerias, shops and other facilities. Some 87 per cent of students say they are satisfied or very satisfied with their life on campus. By next year there will be 2,400 rooms on site.
UL has the best sports facilities
Eight medallists at the last Olympics trained at the sports complex at UL. It is easy to see why. The 50-metre pool is augmented by world-class training and all-weather facilities.
