Trinity College has been placed 131st among universities worldwide by an international rankings agency, five months after the agency excluded the college from its tables due to a data error.
The Times Higher Education University Rankings were published last September.
Trinity College was removed from the rankings tables days prior to publication after the college discovered an error in its submission.
In figures on research funding a misplaced decimal point would have led to TCD receiving a ranking that was lower than it should have received.
The college discovered that the same error had also been made in its submission for the previous year.
Today's belated ranking is based on the corrected data.
The mistake, and the fact that the Times Higher did not spot it, prompted one rankings expert to question the validity of such tables.
Bahram Bekhradnia, who sits on Ireland's Higher Education Authority and is also president of the UK's Higher Education Policy Institute, said at the time that while Trinity College appeared to have made an honest mistake, the fact that the mistake had not been identified by the rankings agency called into question the accuracy of the tables in general.
