Culinary Arts points 2026

Culinary Arts is offered at 13 colleges in Ireland, with entry points that differ widely between them. The CAO files it under personal services.

Lowest entry point

108

across the last 5 years

Highest

306

a spread of 198 points between colleges and years

Movement, 2022 to 2026

+46

getting harder to get into, median of the 2 courses running in both years

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 2026 against 2025.

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	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026	Change
Athlone Institute of Technology	Culinary Arts AL660· Level 6Athlone Institute of Technology	128	–	–	–	–	–
Atlantic Technological University	Culinary Arts AU220· Level 7Atlantic Technological University	–	196	160	187	238	+51
Cork Institute of Technology	Culinary Arts CR640· Level 7Cork Institute of Technology	–	–	–	–	–	–
Dundalk Institute of Technology	Culinary Arts DK753· Level 7Dundalk Institute of Technology	210	140	194	216	232	+16
Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology	Culinary Arts GA361· Level 6Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology	189	–	–	–	–	–
Institute of Technology, Tralee	Culinary Arts TL620· Level 6Institute of Technology, Tralee	–	–	–	–	–	–
Letterkenny Institute of Technology	Culinary Arts LY317· Level 7Letterkenny Institute of Technology	171	–	–	–	–	–
Limerick Institute of Technology	Culinary Arts LC298· Level 6Limerick Institute of Technology	210	–	–	–	–	–
Limerick Institute of Technology	Culinary Arts LC398· Level 7Limerick Institute of Technology	–	–	–	–	–	–
Munster Technological University	Culinary Arts MT555· Level 7Munster Technological University	207	223	243	–	–	+20
Munster Technological University	Culinary Arts MT657· Level 6Munster Technological University	–	–	283	–	–	–
South East Technological University	Culinary Arts SE923· Level 8South East Technological University	–	250	269	253	236	-17
South East Technological University	Culinary Arts SE938· Level 6South East Technological University	–	133	133	169	179	+10
Technological University Dublin	Culinary Arts (Cuisine and Wellness) TU642· Level 6Technological University Dublin	199	238	–	–	–	+39
Technological University Dublin	Culinary Arts (Professional Cookery Practice) TU643· Level 6Technological University Dublin	AQA	AQA	–	–	–	–
Technological University Dublin	Culinary Arts TU742· Level 7Technological University Dublin	AQA	AQA	AQA	AQA	AQA	–
Technological University Dublin	Culinary Arts TU942· Level 8Technological University Dublin	236	192	224	211	306	+95
Technological University of the Shannon	Culinary Arts US630· Level 6Technological University of the Shannon	–	180	–	147	186	+39
Technological University of the Shannon	Culinary Arts US631· Level 6Technological University of the Shannon	–	231	200	201	–	+1
Technological University of the Shannon	Culinary Arts US795· Level 7Technological University of the Shannon	–	262	163	205	222	+17
Waterford Institute of Technology	Culinary Arts WD172· Level 6Waterford Institute of Technology	108	–	–	–	–	–
Waterford Institute of Technology	Culinary Arts WD194· Level 8Waterford Institute of Technology	254	–	–	–	–	–

# 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 198 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.