National College of Ireland (NCI) offers full and part-time courses from foundation to degree and postgraduate level. All courses are fully accredited and delivered from the IFSC campus and across a network of 30 regional centres. The college's specialist areas include business, human resource management, accountancy, finance, computing and community studies. In 1951 the National College of Ireland started out as The Catholic Workers College in Sandford Lodge, Ranelagh. Lectures were led by a handful of dedicated Jesuits two nights a week, with 103 registered students in the first year. Within 10 years, student numbers had dramatically increased. Links with trade unions deepened, as did formal collaborations with employer and management groups. By 1966, nearly 1,300 students from trade union and business management backgrounds were learning together at the re-branded National College of Industrial Relations (NCIR). The college again re-branded as the National College of Ireland (NCI) in 1998 with an expanded National Campus Network and an array of outreach programmes across the country.