CAO points for law, 2018 – Updated

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On 20 August 2018, the Central Applications Office (the CAO) issued the first round of offers of places in Ireland’s higher education institutions. It seems that CAO applications to Trinity fell by 8%, which was almost double the national 4.5% decrease, in part because Brexit has had an impact on course choices and applications. However, demand for law courses is generally up by an average of 3% overall. In the table below, I set out the points for law courses in the first round in the second-last column.

Update: On 30 August 2018, the Central Applications Office (the CAO) issued the second round of offers of places in Ireland’s higher education institutions. This round saw significant falls in points for some courses in Dublin and Cork, which may be due to the housing crisis in the high levels of rents and low levels of rental property supplies in those cities. In the table below, I set out the points for law courses in the second round in the last column.

Code Course
     College
First Round Second Round
Level 8 Courses
AL851 Business & Law
     Athlone Institute of Technology
300
AL853 Accounting & Law
     Athlone Institute of Technology
377
CW708 Law-LLB
     Institute of Technology, Carlow
298
CW938 Business with Law
     Institute of Technology, Carlow
281
CK301 Law (Pathways)
     University College Cork
495
CK302 Law & French
     University College Cork
542
CK304 Law & Irish
     University College Cork
507
CK307 Law & Business
     University College Cork
542
DB514 Business Studies (Law)
     Dublin Business School
252 200
DB568 Law
     Dublin Business School
244 203
DC230 Economics, Politics & Law
     Dublin City University
400
DC232 Law & Society (BCL)
     Dublin City University
455
DC292 Arts (Joint Hons) Law
     Dublin City University
351
DT321 Business & Law
     Dublin Institute of Technology
463
DT532 Law (LLB)
     Dublin Institute of Technology
430 419
GC403 Law (Dublin)
     Griffith College
253 218
TR004 Law
     Trinity College Dublin
533
TR017 Law & Business
     Trinity College Dublin
577
TR018 Law & French
     Trinity College Dublin
567 566*
TR019 Law & German
     Trinity College Dublin
509
TR020 Law & Political Science
     Trinity College Dublin
578
DN600 Law
     University College Dublin
522 521*
DN610 Business & Law
     University College Dublin
531*
GY250 Corp Law
     National University of Ireland, Galway
409
GY251 Civil Law
     National University of Ireland, Galway
451
LY208 Law
     Letterkenny Institute of Technology
270
LC223 Law & Taxation
     Limerick Institute of Technology
307
LM020 Law & Accounting
     University of Limerick
440
LM029 Law Plus
     University of Limerick
477
MH501 LLB Law
     Maynooth University
451
MH502 Law
     Maynooth University
420
WD140 Laws
     Waterford Institute of Technology
290
Level 6 & 7 Courses
CW926 Business with Law
     Institute of Technology, Carlow
208
LY207 LY207 Law – with Criminal Justice or Spanish or Irish
     Letterkenny Institute of Technology
160

* Not all candidates on this point score were offered places.