School of Agriculture & Food Science at University College Dublin

The School has chosen to focus on the four areas of Production Agriculture, Agribusiness and Rural Development, Agri-Environment and Sustainable Resource Management, and Food Science and Nutrition as the core elements of its Agriculture and Food Science Programmes. This creates a unique focus and identity for the School which spans the complete food chain from farm to fork. No other agriculture or food programme in Ireland can offer such a broad spectrum of integrated teaching and research within a single institution. It is the unique differentiator that is key to the current and future success of the Agriculture and Food Science Programme in UCD.

Our research contributes to improving the productivity and the sustainability of agriculture and the environment, and to the quality and security of the food produced, and to consumer well-being. The research ethos of the School is to foster curiosity-based and hypothesis-driven research to best international standards in areas of key strategic relevance to Ireland.UCD was recently ranked as the number 1 University in the world on citations per paper in both Agricultural Science, and Food Science and Technology, based on Thomas Reuters InCites™, data among institutions publishing at scale.Agriculture and Forestry is also one of seven subject areas in UCD ranked in the top 100 Universities in the world based on the QS World Rankings. UCD currently ranks 87 in the world based on the QS World Subject Rankings.