Game Design points 2025
Game Design is offered at 4 colleges in Ireland, with entry points that differ widely between them. The CAO files it under arts.
Lowest entry point
330
across the last five years
Highest
468
a spread of 138 points between colleges and years
Easiest college, five years
-46
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic Technological University | Animation and Game Design AU617· Level 8 | – | – | 400 | 401 | 400 | -1 |
| Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology | Game Design DL854· Level 8 | – | – | – | – | 368 | – |
| Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology | Animation and Game Design GA287· Level 8 | – | 330 | – | – | – | – |
| Technological University Dublin | Game Design TU984· Level 8 | 414 | 468 | 420 | 454 | 402 | -52 |
# 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 138 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.