CAO points 2022

Just over half of applicants — 52 per cent — secured their top course preferences. However, universities have been forced to use random selection, or a lottery, ...

Arts and humanities courses are popular this year, with corresponding points increases. This is good for the student who gets to sample different options in first or second year and then specialise towards the end of their degree.” As with previous years, the university’s bachelor of arts degree, continues to experience high demand with additional places offered this year to meet that rising demand. Medicine remains at a high level (738 points, including Hpat), but has been placed on random selection, a cruel blow for some achieving students. The biggest climber is humanities (442), up 83 points. They showed incredible drive, understanding and flexibility to ensure the system worked, and for that I want to thank them, and of course their teachers,” he said. Three courses require more than 600 points — medicine, which goes to random allocation, even though additional places have been secured nationally. We need to get back to a fairer competition. They have fallen in areas such as nursing, journalism and primary teaching. Minister for Further and Higher Simon Harris said today was a “major milestone “A lottery system for high-points courses is very unfair. At UCD, economics & finance also climbed to 625 points.

The full list of first round CAO points for Level 8 and Level 6/7 courses at Athlone Institute of Technology (as named by the CAO, although AIT and LIT ...

However, universities will be using a lottery system this year to select student for high-point courses due to the volume of students with inflated grades from ...

Jim Miley, Director General of the IUA said: “Our analysis of the results timeline shows that Ireland is out of step with most of the rest of Europe. In an increasingly mobile international student market, this puts Irish students at a serious disadvantage. However, universities will be using a lottery system this year to select student for high-point courses due to the volume of students with inflated grades from the 2021 examinations, and a higher number of applicants.

Some 57,296 CAO applicants have received first-round offers today, with over half (54%) getting their first choice for Level 8 courses. In 82% of cases, ...

Dublin City University expects to welcome new intake of 3800 first-year students.

The University aims to grow this number in the coming years. I want to congratulate every student who has been offered a DCU place and we look forward to welcoming them on campus very soon.” Over 3,800 new students are expected to join first-year programmes at the University’s five faculties this year.

A bumper round of CAO offers brought plenty of good news today, but some of the highest-achieving students failed to get their top choice, because of ...

At the University of Galway, there are more programmes in the 500 range than in other points ranges. Arts with Journalism was among the programmes which had an increase of 80 points last year. The university’s Bachelor of Arts degree continues to experience high demand with additional places offered this year to meet it. Overall, places on 47 courses were offered after a lottery and, while a cruel blow for the applicants involved, it is down from 75 last year. The success rates are even higher for Level 6 and 7 applicants Trinity’ Vice-Provost Professor Orla Sheils said she was concerned about “the inequity brought about by grade inflation”.