Origins: established as the National Institute for Higher Education (NIHE), Dublin, in 1975, the college's first temporary headquarters were in Grand Canal Street, Dublin.
A specialist feature of degree programmes at NIHE was the mandatory integrated training scheme, known as INTRA, through which students gained industrial and commercial experience.
Dr Daniel O'Hare was appointed president in 1977 and the first students were admitted on November 11th, 1977. NIHE moved to Albert College, Glasnevin (which had served from 1838 as an agricultural college, latterly the faculty of agricultural science at UCD).
The college received university status in September 1989, and became known as Dublin City University. It now has linkage agreements with St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Mater Dei Institute, All Hallows and the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
Student body: 9,923 students including 5,276 full-time undergraduates, 964 taught post-graduate students and 416 postgraduate research students. There are 2,191 distance education students.
Faculties: business, computing and mathematical science, education studies, humanities, science and health, fiontar.
The campus: Modern purpose-built campus; continuous presence of cranes, over the past two decades, soon to cease, as almost all available land has been built on.
Compiled by Anne Byrne
