CAO available places
Courses with places left after the offer rounds, with what each one has taken in recent years beside it.
There is no list yet
The CAO publishes available places once the offer rounds have started, which is after the Leaving Certificate results issue in August. Until then there is nothing to show, and a page inventing one would send somebody after a place that does not exist.
It will appear here when it appears there, with the time it was taken on it. In the meantime, how the offer rounds work is the thing worth reading, and the Course Matcher shows what your points reached last year.
Entry requirements still apply
An available place is a place, not an exemption. The institution still checks its own subject requirements, and they are not published in the CAO’s points charts, so nothing on this page should be read as saying you qualify. Check the course on the institution’s own site and on cao.ie, which is also where the closing arrangements are published.
Questions people ask
- What is the CAO available places list?
- Courses that still have places after the offer rounds have gone out. Anybody can apply for them, including applicants who did not originally list the course, as long as they meet the entry requirements.
- Do the points still apply?
- The entry requirements always apply and are checked by the institution. The points figure is not a queue in the same way it is in round one, because the course is looking to fill remaining places, which is why some available places go well below what the course took in August.
- How quickly does the list change?
- Through the day. A course can come off it within hours of appearing. Check cao.ie before you act on anything you read here, including on this page.