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Early Childhood Education points 2026

Early Childhood Education is offered at 2 colleges in Ireland, with entry points that differ widely between them. The CAO files it under education.

Lowest entry point

307

across the last 5 years

Highest

346

a spread of 39 points between colleges and years

Movement, 2022 to 2026

+18

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.

Course202420252026Change
Early Childhood Education CM020· Level 8Marino Institute of Education3363463460
Early Childhood Education TU995· Level 8Technological University Dublin310307346+39

# 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

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.