Best Student Accommodation near University of Galway, Galway

The University of Galway was founded in 1845 as Queen’s College Galway and was known as NUI Galway until it took its current name. Teaching began in 1849 in the Quadrangle, the limestone Tudor Gothic building at the heart of a campus that now covers more than 105 hectares along the River Corrib. Over 19,000 students, more than a fifth of them international, study across four colleges: Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies; Science and Engineering; Business, Public Policy and Law; and Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. A 1929 Act gave the university a statutory role in using Irish as a working language. The main campus is about a ten-minute walk from the city centre, worth bearing in mind when comparing student accommodation in Galway.