Biotechnology points 2025
Biotechnology is offered at 7 colleges in Ireland, with entry points that differ widely between them. The CAO files it under biological and related sciences.
Lowest entry point
225
across the last five years
Highest
530
a spread of 305 points between colleges and years
Easiest college, five years
-36
getting easier to get into
Where it is offered, and what it took
Round one points for each college, year by year. A dash means the course did not run that year, or no figure was published. The last column is the change on the previous year the course ran, which for most is 2025 against 2024.
Some colleges appear twice below with the same course name. Where the level differs, one is an honours degree and the other is not, and the points differ accordingly. Where the level is the same, the college teaches on more than one campus and the CAO lists each under its own code, so the code is what tells them apart.
| College | Course | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athlone Institute of Technology | Biotechnology AL730· Level 7 | 261 | 290 | – | – | – | +29 |
| Athlone Institute of Technology | Biotechnology AL838· Level 8 | 324 | 308 | – | – | – | -16 |
| Dublin City University | Biotechnology DC181· Level 8 | 530 | 521 | 522 | 520 | 498 | -22 |
| Limerick Institute of Technology | Biotechnology with Biopharmaceutical Science LC362· Level 8 | 429 | 423 | – | – | – | -6 |
| Maynooth University | Biotechnology MH202· Level 8 | 490 | 467 | 431 | 444 | 430 | -14 |
| Technological University Dublin | Biotechnology TU889· Level 8 | – | – | – | 421 | 456 | +35 |
| Technological University of the Shannon | Biotechnology US731· Level 7 | – | – | 323 | 320 | 225 | -95 |
| Technological University of the Shannon | Biotechnology with Biopharmaceutical Science US860· Level 8 | – | – | 400 | 378 | 408 | +30 |
| Technological University of the Shannon | Biotechnology US861· Level 8 | – | – | 339 | 324 | 336 | +12 |
| University of Galway | Biotechnology GY304· Level 8 | 498 | 500 | 463 | 470 | 498 | +28 |
# beside a course, an interview, portfolio, audition or test is required. Beside a figure, that assessment is included in the number, which is why it can be above 625. * not everyone on that score was offered a place, so places were drawn at random among applicants on it.
Reading this table
The spread here is 305 points, which is the most useful thing on this page. The same subject is far easier to get into at some colleges than others, so a total that misses one entry on this list can comfortably clear another.
None of these numbers is a threshold. Each is the points of the last applicant offered a place that year, so it describes where the queue was cut rather than a standard the college set. What moves them.