Maynooth University Rankings 2025: World Rank & Subject Ranks

Maynooth University Overall Rankings 2027

No single number captures Maynooth University because QS, THE, ARWU, U.S. News and Collegedunia Study Abroad place the university in noticeably different global bands. The five overall ranks below are the only ones with editions live in the past 12 months.

The widest cross-body gap is between Collegedunia Study Abroad #386 and U.S. News #1093, a difference of more than 700 positions. The split reflects how Collegedunia weighs Indian-relevance signals like English-medium delivery and post-study work rights against U.S. News’s citation-driven formula.

Key insight: Across the four globally cited lists, Maynooth’s average position improves by roughly 190 places once Collegedunia Study Abroad is included, the closest proxy for Indian student outcomes.

Maynooth University Rankings: Bottom Line for Indian Students

Three Maynooth ranks matter most for Indian applicants: the QS 2027 band, the Collegedunia Study Abroad 2026 rank and the strongest subject rank for the chosen program. The five-row table below pairs each signal with the decision it drives.

The QS-to-CD jump of 335 positions is what makes Maynooth competitive against Galway and DCU for Indian applicants targeting Computer Science, Data Science or Law. A flat THE band across four editions tells loan officers that Maynooth’s degree value carries no near-term downgrade risk.

Maynooth University QS World University Rankings 2027

Maynooth University ranks #721-730 in QS World University Rankings 2027, up roughly 50 positions from the 2026 edition. QS scores universities on academic reputation, employer opinion, faculty-student ratio and research output per faculty. The 2027 edition went live on June 18, 2026.

Across five editions Maynooth’s QS rank has improved by nearly 80 positions from its 2023 low of #801-1000.

The sharpest improvement landed between QS 2026 and QS 2027, when Maynooth moved across the 750 band. That threshold is what many Indian education loan products use as an Ireland-eligibility filter. The university has climbed bands in three consecutive editions, which is unusual for an Irish university outside Dublin.

Key insight: Maynooth’s QS rank has improved in every edition since 2023, a four-edition winning streak that places it among the top upward-mover Irish universities tracked by QS over the same period.

Collegedunia Study Abroad Rankings of Maynooth University

Maynooth University is ranked #386 globally and #5 of 8 Irish universities on Collegedunia Study Abroad 2026. The Collegedunia rank weighs Indian-relevance signals like English-medium delivery, post-study work rights, application accessibility and intake share from Indian students.

The Law category percentile of roughly 71% (#172 of 243) sits about 21 percentile points sharper than Computer Science at 92% (#361 of 392). For an Indian Law applicant the CD rank lines up with THE Law #251-300; for Computer Science the CD position lags both QS and THE and reflects a smaller Indian intake in that program.

India-relevance: Maynooth’s CD Overall #5 in Ireland places it inside the country’s top five for Indian student outcomes despite a QS overall band that sits #6 among Irish universities, a one-position favourable shift driven by employability and post-study work signals.

Maynooth University Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings 2026

Maynooth University is ranked #501-600 in THE World University Rankings 2026. Times Higher Education, which scores universities on teaching, research environment, research quality, industry income and international outlook, has placed Maynooth in either the #401-500 or #501-600 band across the past five editions.

Maynooth crossed the 500-band threshold downward between THE 2024 and THE 2025, a one-band slip that has held flat into THE 2026. The five-edition view shows the rank cycling within a 200-position window. Alumni degree brand stays strong while research-intensive PhD applicants see citation-side growth as flat versus the QS gains.

Trend signal: Maynooth’s THE rank has not exited the #401-600 corridor in five editions, the tightest five-year THE stability band of any Irish university.

Maynooth University U.S. News Best Global University Rankings 2025-2026

Maynooth University is ranked #1093 in U.S. News Best Global Universities 2025-2026. U.S. News weights bibliometric data, meaning research publication count and citation impact carry the heaviest weight in its formula. That weighting is why Maynooth sits lower on U.S. News than on QS or THE.

U.S. News has lifted Maynooth by 161 positions across three editions. That is a larger movement than QS or THE over the same window and points to faster growth in international research collaboration than in raw publication count. Indian applicants reading U.S. News in isolation will undercount Maynooth’s actual employability profile by a wide margin.

Cross-body gap: Maynooth’s U.S. News rank sits roughly 372 positions below its QS 2027 band and about 493 positions below the THE 2026 midpoint, the largest cross-body gap among Irish universities tracked across all three lists.

Maynooth University Other Global Rankings

Two further bodies place Maynooth in their current cycles: ARWU (Shanghai), which scores universities on Nobel and Fields output, top-cited researcher count and publication volume, and the THE Young University Rankings, which compares universities under 50 years old.

The THE Young #86 result is the only Maynooth rank that crosses inside a global Top 100. It carries weight with Indian applicants who use the "young university with established reputation" filter when shortlisting Ireland against Australia or New Zealand. The flat ARWU band over two editions signals research output matched the bar raised by competing universities each year rather than fell behind it.

Maynooth University Subject Rankings

Maynooth University’s strongest subject result is Law at #251-300 in THE Subject Rankings 2026, followed by Psychology at #201-250 in THE 2026. The university appears in nine THE subject lists for 2026, wider subject coverage than the overall rank alone would signal.

Maynooth University THE Subject Rankings 2026

Five of nine THE 2026 subjects land inside the global Top 500, a wider stable than the overall #501-600 band would imply. Law and Psychology together pull the bulk of Maynooth’s incoming international cohort.

The subject-vs-overall gap is positive for six of nine THE 2026 subjects, an unusually balanced spread for a university outside the Top 400. For an Indian Psychology or Law applicant, the relevant rank for funding and program quality conversations is the subject band, not the overall world rank.

What it signals: Indian applicants targeting Law, Psychology or Social Sciences see Maynooth ranks that sit 100 to 300 positions sharper than the overall world rank, the widest favourable spread of any Irish university outside the Dublin three.

Maynooth University ARWU Subject Rankings (GRAS)

ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects places Maynooth in four discrete subject lists. Geography and Law share the strongest band at #151-200.

Both top-banded ARWU subjects (Geography and Law) place Maynooth roughly 650 positions sharper in the subject pool than the overall ARWU band of #801-900. For Indian PhD applicants targeting geography or environmental law research at Maynooth, the subject rank is the figure to quote in scholarship applications, not the overall ARWU band.

Maynooth University Regional Rankings

Two regional and thematic Maynooth ranks remain live for 2025-2026: QS Europe Northern Europe and THE Impact Rankings. Each measures a dimension that QS World and THE World flatten out.

Maynooth University QS Europe University Rankings 2026 (Northern Europe)

Maynooth University ranks #99 in QS Europe University Rankings - Northern Europe 2026, a single position inside the Top 100 for the Northern European sub-region.

That position is roughly 600 positions sharper than where Maynooth’s QS World rank alone would place it within the region. For Indian applicants comparing Ireland with the Netherlands, Sweden or Denmark, the QS Northern Europe band is the closest like-for-like comparison.

Maynooth University THE Impact Rankings 2025

Maynooth University ranks #401-600 overall in THE Impact Rankings 2025, with two SDG-specific bands inside the global Top 200.

The Reduced Inequalities position of =#68 is the single sharpest individual rank Maynooth secures across any THE list, beating the overall world rank by more than 430 positions. Indian applicants targeting public policy, social work or international development find the Impact ranks more useful than QS for scholarship and government-funded program signals.

Note for Indian applicants: Maynooth’s SDG 10 and SDG 5 bands outrank UCD on the same indicators, a comparison that rarely shows up on QS-only shortlists.

Maynooth University Rankings: Indian Student Outlook

For Indian applicants, Maynooth University’s rank file reads strongest for Law, Psychology and Geography, and weakest on raw research-volume bodies like ARWU and U.S. News. The Collegedunia Study Abroad placement of #5 in Ireland and the QS Top 100 Northern Europe slot are the two figures counsellors quote first when sequencing Maynooth against Galway or DCU.

Popular programs Indian students choose at Maynooth University

Five Maynooth programs draw the bulk of Indian intake each September cycle, and each maps to one of Maynooth’s stronger subject bands.

• M.S. Computer Science (Applied): aligns with THE Computer Science 2026 #501-600; the largest single Indian intake program at Maynooth.
• M.S. Data Science and Analytics: sits inside the same Computer Science THE band and benefits from Ireland’s Stamp 1G two-year stay-back for STEM masters.
• M.S. Business Management and Analytics: backed by THE Business and Economics 2026 #401-500.
• LLM and BCL Law programs: backed by Maynooth’s strongest subject result, THE Law 2026 #251-300 and ARWU Law #151-200.
• Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Chemistry: aligns with THE Physical Sciences 2026 #501-600 and feeds Ireland’s pharma employer pipeline.

Indian-relevance signals at a glance

The five data points below capture how Maynooth’s rank file translates into a shortlist decision rather than a numbers exercise.