Disability Access Route to Education (DARE)


How do I apply?

You must apply via CAO no later than 1 February of proposed year of entry.

In addition, you will have to submit supporting documents to show your eligibility for DARE/HEAR by 15 March.

Please see www.accesscollege.ie for details of the required documents.

If you are deemed DARE/HEAR eligible you will be considered for a DARE/HEAR place in UCD if you meet the following minimum admissions requirements.


What are the minimum admission requirements?

  • You must have a minimum of 300 points
    (for DN400 Medicine minimum is 480 points and minimum HPAT is 150)
  • You must have met all the entry requirements for the course. (DARE Applicants attention is also drawn to the Student Fitness to Practice Policy).
  • You must be within 20% of the points required (e.g. if the cut-off is 500 you must have at least 400 points)

If I meet these will I definitely be offered a place?

Not necessarily. We have a target number of places to offer to eligible DARE/HEAR applicants in most courses. This means that, admission is competitive if there are more eligible DARE/HEAR applicants, who meet the minimum admission requirements, than places available. For some courses, the lowest DARE/HEAR offer has been close to the standard cut-off. As an indication, the minimum score at which offers were made previously are shown below.

Note: as with all cut-off points the minimum can vary significantly from year-to-year

Priority Groups: As stated in the handbook at www.accesscollege.ie, priority is given to DARE eligible applicants with physical and sensory disabilities and those who are both DARE and HEAR eligible who meet the minimum requirements outlined above. Any places remaining are assigned eligilble DARE and HEAR on points ranking.

In the table below
# no eligible applicants in the category or the quota was filled with applicants from the priority groups. Points for those admitted from the priority groups may be lower than the average shown below as they are not included in the averages.

CAO CodeTitle

DARE

HEAR

 Target Places 2022Average Lowest Offer
2020-22
 Target Places 2022Average Lowest Offer
2020-22
Architecture
2
487
3
472
Landscape Architecture
2
419 2 357
City Planning and Environmental Policy
2
374 2 381
Engineering
23
444 23 454
Science
35
460
35
449
Computer Science
10
455
10
462
Actuarial and Financial Studies
3
585 3 547
DN240
Sustainability
6 440 6 459
Agricultural Science
19 357 19 377
Food Science
4 416
3
429
Human Nutrition
2 479 3 464
Veterinary Medicine (Undergraduate Entry)
4
600
4
525
Veterinary Medicine(Graduate Entry)
N/A graduate entry route
Veterinary Nursing
2
482
3
466
Medicine (Undergraduate Entry)
2
#
10 717
N/A graduate entry route
Radiography
6 530 6 518
DN411
Radiography (Graduate Entry)
N/A graduate entry route
Physiotherapy
2
589 5
531
Health & Performance Science
2 504
3
445
Sport & Exercise Management
3 451 3 386
Biomedical, Health and Life Sciences
1
#
1
593
General Nursing
7
428
7
419
Children’s and General Nursing (Integrated)
2
515
2
491
Midwifery
1
421
1
485
Mental Health Nursing
1
397
1
396
Joint Honours
20
314
20
318
Humanities
12 341 13 339
Modern Languages
2
330
2
319
Law
10 504 11 464
Business and Law
8
495
7
459
Commerce
10
502
10
449
Commerce International
5
462
5
448
Economics and Finance
1
#
1
574
Social Sciences
50
367
50
365
Economics
2
455
2
465
Psychology
4
526 4 509
Social Policy and Sociology
7
348 8 342

* All applicants with a score greater than this were offered, but it was not possible to offer to all applicants with this score and random selection was applied.

 Please note, due to GDPR constraints we cannot give the minimum points for any year as this could potentially identify an individual applicant.