University of Limerick is located in the third largest city of the Republic of Ireland, Limerick. Along with Dublin City University it acquired its university status in 1989, after being established as the National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick in 1972.
University of Limerick currently hosts around 11,000 full-time undergraduate students and 1,500 part-time.

Dublin City University is located in the capital of the Republic of Ireland. It was established in 1975 under the name National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin. It wasn’t until 1989 that it acquired its university status. Considered unconventional at the time, Dublin City University was the first university in Ireland that introduced interdisciplinary studies, meaning that for example science students could take business courses, business students could take languages and language students could take computing.