Early Childhood Studies points 2025
Early Childhood Studies is offered at 2 colleges in Ireland, with entry points that differ widely between them. The CAO files it under welfare.
Lowest entry point
224
across the last five years
Highest
300
a spread of 76 points between colleges and years
Easiest college, five years
-57
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.
| College | Course | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dundalk Institute of Technology | Early Childhood Studies DK876· Level 8 | 300 | 240 | 226 | 224 | 243 | +19 |
| Waterford Institute of Technology | Early Childhood Studies WD149· Level 8 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
# 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 76 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.