Professor Barbara Dooley:

Between 25% and 28% of our students are international. A large proportion of those will be at graduate level. Our biggest cohort of international students in UCD will be coming to do taught programmes in university. A smaller proportion come for four-year programmes. We also have quite a number who come for a study-abroad semester. They are often from North America. We also have Erasmus students. There will be a blend of different students who come here for different reasons. They may come to do a one-year taught programme. They may come to do a four-year undergraduate course. They may be Erasmus exchange students, they may coming from study-abroad programmes or they may be coming from North America. They come from almost 140 countries.