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 Code | Title |
DARE |
HEAR | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Target Places 2022 | Average Lowest Offer 2020-22 | Target Places 2022 | Average 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 | |
Medicine (Graduate Entry)
|
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.