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The College offers courses mainly in subjects aligned to religion including theology at undergraduate and postgraduate level as well as personal development, and enrolls approximately 700 students. The current president of All Hallows College is Dr. Patrick McDevitt, C.M., Ph.D. A Vincentian priest, from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois.
The college's main buildings are the historic Drumcondra House designed by Sir Edward Lovett Pearce for Marmaduke Coghill, Purcell House, O'Donnell house, and Senior house. The Architect J.J McCarthy extended the house and designed a College quadrangle, however only two sides were built. The college chapel was designed by George Ashlin in 1876, replacing an earlier chapel by McCarthy, the south side of the chapel is dominated by Evie Hone's stained glass window.
The college offers joint major undergraduate degree courses (where the student's two subjects are both considered majors and are both able to be used as a basis for employment) starting in September 2008. Previous to this a student had to take one major and one minor. The major having to be Theology and the minor being either philosophy, psychology or English. The undergraduate degree courses are available to school leavers via the Dept. of Educations Central Applications Office (CAO), yet about 50% of first year students would be mature.
The college also offers a number of postgraduate programmes in theology and Social studies such as Social Justice & Public Policy, Management: Community and Voluntary Services and ecology & religion. Most of these are taught courses have graduate certificate and diploma stages prior to MA stage. The college also offers research masters and doctoral studies. All of the masters and doctoral programmes are entitled to tax relief under the government scheme.
All Hallows also runs a variety of Adult & Community Learning courses.
As part of the reaction to the closure of the aerospace company in Dublin Airport under the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) a tailored degree course was provided in All Hallows for some 70 former employees.
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