National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI,G)

Established in 1845, the National University of Ireland, Galway has s distinguished reputation for teaching and research excellence in he fields of arts, social science, and celtic studies; business, public policy and law; engineering and informatics; medicine, nursing and health sciences; and science.

NUI Galway now ranks third place in Ireland and is the only Irish university to move up the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings for 2014-15. With an increase of 53 places on last year's position, two bands in this ranking survey, NUI Galway now ranks at 261st in the Rankings 2014/2015.

NUI Galway has been at the forefront of providing postgraduate education in the area of Occupational Health and Safety since the early 1990's. Over the years we have continued to revised and update the content our programme to meet the evolving needs of the workplace. Occupational Health and safety has become a prominent component of the work environment and society and continues to be a growth area for employment. The graduate employment record for our programme is excellent, over 90% of the students from the class of 2013 - 2014 are now employed in Occupational Health and Safety related roles.

Our programme is recognised by the Irish Health and Safety Authority and satisfies the academic requirements for membership of the UK Institution of Occupational Safety and Health and the British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS). The MSc/HDip programme is also a Bord Altranais (Irish nursing board) Category 11 approved course approved course which requires that nurses applying to undertake the programme are members of An Bord Altranais

For further information on our programmes please visit our website