UCD College of Business and Law Graduate School
The UCD College of Business and Law embraces two schools, the UCD School of Business and the UCD School of Law. The UCD School of Business is Ireland’s premier business school and enjoys an international reputation of the highest standards. The UCD School of Business is comprised of an undergraduate school, the UCD Quinn School of Business on the Belfield campus, and the UCD Michael Smurfit School of Business in Blackrock where taught and research postgraduate studies are conducted. The UCD School of Business consists of six main subject areas: Accountancy; Banking and Finance; Industrial Relations and Human Resources; Management; Management Information Systems; and Marketing. The UCD School of Business has over 3,000 students, a third of which are engaged in postgraduate study.
A range of post graduate degrees are provided including taught programmes such as the Master of Business Administration, Master of Business Studies, Master of Accounting, Master of Quantitative Finance, as well as two research-based degrees, the Doctor of Philosophy (Commerce) Degree (PhD) and the Master of Commerce (MComm.).
The UCD School of Law is the largest and most richly diversified law school in Ireland and currently has over 1,000 students. A new building is under construction to facilitate the expansion in postgraduate education. It has a full-time teaching faculty of 30. It hosts the Irish Centre for Commercial Law Studies and the Institute for Criminology. The UCD School of Law offers two taught postgraduate degrees, the Master of Laws in Commercial Law and the Master of Laws in European Law. There is also a Master of Laws by Research (LLM). The Law School also contributes to a range of interdisciplinary postgraduate degrees offered in other UCD colleges. The School of Laws offers two doctoral degrees, the Doctor of Laws (LLD) and the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).
