💙💛 𝐂𝐀𝐎 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒: 𝐔𝐂𝐃 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐈𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝’𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐈𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬
🔹 25% of all UCD’s offers are to applicants from DARE, HEAR, and other access routes
University College Dublin is making over 6,000 offers to study on its undergraduate degrees, with most offers being made through the Central Applications Office (CAO).
For the first time since the pandemic, new undergraduate students at UCD will have their welcome and orientation in the week before the academic term starts, taking advantage of the campus being less busy and the availability of higher year students to act as peer mentors, a vital support working with university staff to build a sense of belonging for the new students.
Also, this will be the first time since the pandemic that first year undergraduates will have a full first trimester of learning, alongside all other students studying at UCD.
With 37 undergraduate entry routes, alongside three graduate entry options in professional healthcare - DN301 Veterinary Medicine (Graduate Entry), DN401 Medicine (Graduate Entry), and DN411 Radiography (Graduate Entry), new undergraduate students will come to UCD to study on a wide range of degree programmes from science, technology, engineering, and maths, to health sciences, arts and humanities, social sciences, and business and law.
“We very much look forward to welcoming our new undergraduate students to UCD next week,” said UCD Registrar and Deputy President, Professor Colin Scott.
“We offer wide-ranging support for the transition to learning in a university setting, underpinning the formal learning within degree programmes, and also the wider opportunities engaging with our outstanding facilities and for personal development through participation in clubs, societies, representation of students, and volunteering.”
Among Irish applicants, UCD continues to be the most sought after university in the country.
With 9,965 CAO students choosing UCD as their first preference this year out of a total of 26,376 CAO applications to the university, UCD accounts for 13% of the total number of 1st preferences through the CAO.
More than 25% of the offers made by UCD were to students applying through the DARE or HEAR schemes, or other access routes including mature students, University access and Open Learning students and QQI-FET candidates who have completed courses in further education.
Offers were also made to students from the UK and EU who also apply through the CAO and to applicants from outside the EU who apply directly to UCD.
“UCD is an increasingly diverse university, in terms of its student population, both nationally and internationally. This diversity enhances the quality of the learning and wider student experience, and also prompts us to universally design effective supports to meet changing student needs and to enable our students to flourish and thrive,” added Professor Scott.
