Student numbers grow from 75 in 1901 to 5,000+ in 2019
In September 2019, over 2,200 new students enrolled for the first time at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at MIC.
With almost 950 students enrolled in ten undergraduate programmes at the Limerick and Thurles campuses, 950 students on the LINC programme and almost 350 postgraduate students on taught and research programmes, brings MIC’s student population to an all-time high of in excess of 5,000.
MIC is a truly international college with new and returning international students from America, Armenia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Japan, Kenya, Libya, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Tanzania and Erasmus+ students from Austria, England, Finland, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland.
The College is now widely acknowledged to be a high-performing, university-level institution although, despite concerted efforts, continued to meet with resistance at the level of central Government in respect of its desire to be designated as a university in its own right. Achievement of recognised university-level status continued to be the College's primary objective as it entered the third decade of the century with a greatly enhanced reputation for excellence after the difficult years between 2011 and 2014 that threatened its existence as an independent institution.
