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Changing lives through education
National College of Ireland is a HEA-funded, non-profit, independent college, with over 6,000 students across its key areas of computing, business, education, and psychology. NCI’s Dublin city-centre campus is located at the crossroads of the IFSC and the Silicon Docks.
NCI has the largest school of computing in Ireland, with a distinguished international advisory board of leading academics, including Professor Jeffrey D. Ullman, Michael Franklin, Professor Armando Fox, and Professor John E. Hopcroft, which convened in 2012 to launch NCI’s Cloud Competency Centre, the first centre for excellence in cloud computing in Ireland. Current CCC research collaboration with EU government bodies, academic and research institutes and industry aligns with the EU Digital Decade Policy Programme.
National College of Ireland’s mission is ‘to change lives through education’.
National College of Ireland is informed by values of inclusion, community, integrity, dynamic innovation, centring the learner, and excellence – both striving for it as an institution and fostering it in our students.
The National College of Ireland (NCI) is a not-for-profit, state-aided higher education institution that has been shaping Ireland’s education and innovation landscape since 1951. With 6,000+ students, NCI is known for academic excellence and strong industry ties. It was the first non-IT sector college in Ireland to offer higher education apprenticeships. Central to this project is NCI’s Cloud Competency Centre (CCC), based within its School of Computing—a European leader in cloud, data analytics, and distributed systems. Since 2012, the CCC has driven digital skills, innovation, and research, aligned with EU priorities under Erasmus+, Digital Europe, and Horizon Europe. Its MSc programmes and global academic board ensure future-ready talent for Europe’s digital economy.
