AL730 Biotechnology at AIT: CAO points 2026 (last run)
AL730 is a level 7 ordinary degree at Athlone Institute of Technology in Athlone, and the CAO files it under biological and related sciences. The CAO has published a round one points figure for it in 3 of the 7 admission years held here, from 2020 onwards.
It has risen in every year held here, from 250 in 2020 to 290 in 2022.
No figure has been published for this course since 2022, so it appears to have stopped running. The CAO publishes points rather than closures, so check cao.ie (opens in a new tab) before you rule it out, and see what else teaches Biotechnology.
2022 round one
Work out your points and this page will show where your total sits against this course.
Year by year
Round one is the figure most people mean by the points. Round two is what was left after the first offers went out, so it is usually lower and it is not a cut off for the year.
| Year | Round one | Round two | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 250 | – | |
| 2021 | 261 | – | |
| 2022 | 290 | – | |
| 2023 | – | – | |
| 2024 | – | – | |
| 2025 | – | – | |
| 2026 | – | – |
A dash means no comparable figure is shown for that round. It does not mean the course did not run or that no later offer is possible. Figures are read from the CAO’s published points charts. AQA means all qualified applicants were offered places. * means not all applicants on that score were offered places in that round. # marks a test, interview, portfolio or audition; v marks a new competition for available places.
How it moved
Each row is one year against the year before. Left is a fall, which is the year the course took fewer points than the last one.
fell, so it took fewer pointsrose, so it took more
- 2020 → 2021+11
- 2021 → 2022+29
- Highest
- 290
- in 2022
- Lowest
- 250
- in 2020
- Widest move
- 29
- points, in one year
- Places drawn at random
- 0 of 3
- never, here
No comparable numeric Round 1 and Round 2 pair is held here. Blank figures, AQA and marked new competitions are not treated as unchanged points.
Entry requirements
Points are only half of an offer. The subject requirements for this course are set by Athlone Institute of Technology and are not published in the CAO’s points charts, so they are not on this page and nothing here should be read as saying you qualify. Check them on the institution’s own course page, and on cao.ie (opens in a new tab), before you put this on your form.
Close to this
Other places teaching Biotechnology, then more at Athlone Institute of Technology.
- BiotechnologyAL838Athlone Institute of Technology–
- BiotechnologyDC181Dublin City University510
- Biotechnology with Biopharmaceutical ScienceLC362Limerick Institute of Technology–
- BiotechnologyMH202Maynooth University423
- BiotechnologyTU889Technological University Dublin466
- BiotechnologyUS731Technological University of the Shannon252
- Biotechnology with Biopharmaceutical ScienceUS860Technological University of the Shannon465
- BiotechnologyUS861Technological University of the Shannon410
Where to go next
- Every college teaching Biotechnology, side by side with what each one took.
- What 290 points reached in 2026, which is the band this course sits in.
- Course Matcher, which takes your total and narrows the whole list down.