Posted on: 23 August 2010
Entry points for the majority of Trinity College’s courses have increased, across all faculties of the university. This follows the strong demand that was shown for the university’s courses from CAO applicants for 2010. There was a 6% increase in the numbers of first preference applications and total applicants to Trinity for 2010. This increase follows successive increases in first preferences for courses at TCD over the last five years.
Points have increased for most of Trinity’s engineering, mathematics, science and computer science courses, with significant increases in the points required for entry to mathematics (485 points, compared to 415 points in round 1 in 2009) and continued demand for the general entry science course (up by 20 points to 460*).
There were increases in points for many health science courses: medicine increased by two points to 731* (inclusive of applicants’ HPAT scores), points for most of the university’s nursing and midwifery courses increased, while there were also increases in the points required for Trinity’s range of dental courses (dental science increased by 10 points to 580*).
Language courses proved very popular in 2010: The points required for two subject moderatorship degrees in French and German courses increased, while points also increased for the university’s wide range of business and a language, and law and a language courses (business studies and Spanish is up by 10 points to 475, while law and German is up by 40 points to 510*).
Applicants also showed great interest in Arts courses, such as history (the single honor course is up by 35 points to 480*, while the points required for the recently introduced ancient and medieval history and culture course increased by 55 to 440).
The traditional strong demand for Trinity’s highly regarded business courses continued: points for the business, economic and social studies (BESS), course (which offers an exceptionally wide range of module choices) are up slightly to 480*, the points for business and computing increased by 10 to 375, while the points required for entry to business and a language courses increased in four out of the five available courses.
The full list of points required for entry to Trinity College Dublin is available at: www.tcd.ie/Admissions/undergraduate. It will be updated for each round of CAO offers.
We look forward to welcoming our new entrants to Trinity College in September, and to showcasing College to next year’s potential applicants at our annual Open Day on 1 December 2010.
