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It’s the news that CAO applicants have been preparing: Despite a 12 percent increase in the total number of third-level spots available this year, CAO points have risen significantly.
But the points have not increased in all courses or, in some cases, not as much as expected. In other cases, however, the higher points have taken some observers by surprise.
Some of the highest points have been recorded at Trinity College, where about 80 percent of courses saw a point increase, with an average increase of 27 points.
Here, we take a look at some of the most popular and familiar courses.
Medicine and health sciences
This year, some of the biggest point increases are for courses that are already in relatively high demand.
Medical applicants will breathe a sigh of relief because the scores have been relatively modest: at UCD, medicine has risen from 735 to 737 points; at Trinity, it has risen from 730 to 735; at NUI Galway, the points have risen from 726 to 728; and at the Royal College of Surgeons the points increased from 729 to 733. The UCC medical degree increased from 729 to 731.
But there have been further increases in points across the board for general nursing courses, with points from 410 to 442 at Athlone IT, from 414 to 454 at DCU, from 389 to 429 at GMIT, from 442 to 476 at NUI Galway. and from 440 to 475 in UL.
At UCD, physical therapy has risen 36 points, from 542 last year to 578 this year, while the RCSI course has risen from 532 to 566 points and Trinity’s has risen from 533 to 566. Midwifery has risen 80 points , going from 409 to 489 points. And 413 to 422 in WIT.
Dental science courses at both UCC and Trinity increased from 590 last year to 613 points this year.
Points for all three pharmacy courses have increased, with the highest increase at Trinity College (from 555 last year to 590 this year).
Deal
Points for commerce at UCD, one of the most popular courses in the country, increased from 498 to 521, despite the university adding an additional 14 places to the course. In fact, the points for most of the trading courses went up.
Trinity’s Business, Economic and Social Studies course has risen from 518 to 543 points.
Despite the unprecedented problems experienced by the aviation industry, even DCU aviation management and aviation management with pilot study courses have seen a point increase, from 463 to 476. This may reflect the feeling that the current tribulations of the industry can be solved by when the first year of graduate 2020.
Engineering and informatics
Points for general engineering courses, which had already seen high growth in recent years, increased in most tertiary institutes, with increases in Cork IT (from 381 to 411 points), DCU (381 to 422 points) and TU Dublin (400 to 402 points). Although UCD has increased the places in its engineering course from 265 to 319, the CAO points have increased from 511 to 531.
Only GMIT is opposed to the uptrend, with points for its common entry course from 346 to 340.
Points for computer science, leading to a grade in one of the most in-demand professions, have increased significantly, with the UCC course increasing from 402 to 468 points, UCD from 488 to 510 points, TU Dublin from 451 to 476 points and Trinity’s from 465 to 509 points. Data science at Maynooth increased from 434 to 445 points.
Sciences
Unsurprisingly, points for science courses have increased this year. UCD’s science course has risen from 521 to 533 points, DCU’s from 454 to 498 points, Maynooth University’s from 350 to 360 points, and WIT’s from 302 to 308 points.
Specialized science courses have also seen point increases, with UCC’s courses in biological and chemical sciences, chemical science, and physics and astrophysics showing significant increases (from 498 to 510 points, 457 to 485 points, and 511 to 554 points, respectively), and there are similar increases for DCU and Trinity College specialized science courses.
The biomedical science course offered jointly by CIT and UCC has increased from 546 to 565 points.
Law
Points for law courses have generally increased, with increases in the UCC Law Pathways title (from 453 to 507 points) and in particular for your law with French or Irish degrees. TU Dublin’s law degree increases from 422 to 451, NUI Galway’s from 473 to 499 points, and Maynooth University’s law course (options) increases from 410 to 451 points. Trinity’s law degree rose from 532 to 566, while its law with language courses also saw increases (eg, law and French rose from 532 to 565 points).
The business and law courses have seen an increase in points, with the UCD course from 521 to 545 points.
Education
Points for elementary school courses have risen, although applicants will be relieved to see that the increase is less than they expected. Points at Marino increased from 452 to 484, at DCU from 462 to 488, at Mary Immaculate from 473 to 495 points and, at Maynooth University Froebel Field, from 496 to 507 points.
farming
UCC’s agricultural science course increased from 457 to 496 points, UCD’s from 420 to 456, and IT Letterkenny’s from 300 to 307.
Arts, social sciences and journalism
Over the past decade, points for arts courses have been on a downward trajectory.
This year, with increases for most other subjects, that pattern is somewhat broken. DCU’s Bachelor of Arts significantly increases 29 points to 376, while the joint course from UL and Mary Immaculate College increases from 329 to 348 points and the arts points at Maynooth University increase from 316 to 318.
UCD’s three-year joint honors program has dropped from 336 points to a new low of 310, while the four-year humanities degree, which includes a year abroad, a research project, or an internship, has dropped from 348 to 340 points.
But surprisingly, the largest point increase at Trinity is for the college’s theater and theater studies course, which rose from 495 to 564, an increase of 69 points. A university spokesperson blatantly suggested that this could be influenced by the television hit Normal People, which was largely set on the Trinity campus, although they acknowledged that the scores have risen across the board.
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