Mechanical Engineering points 2025

Mechanical Engineering is offered at 15 colleges in Ireland, with entry points that differ widely between them. The CAO files it under engineering and engineering trades.

Lowest entry point

146

across the last five years

Highest

566

a spread of 420 points between colleges and years

Easiest college, five years

+37

getting harder 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	Mechanical Engineering AL602· Level 6	–	–	–	–	–	–
Athlone Institute of Technology	Mechanical Engineering AL710· Level 7	243	208	–	–	–	-35
Athlone Institute of Technology	Mechanical Engineering AL818· Level 8	–	299	–	–	–	–
Atlantic Technological University	Mechanical Engineering AU251· Level 7	–	–	245	257	271	+14
Atlantic Technological University	Mechanical Engineering AU350· Level 8	–	–	321	360	384	+24
Atlantic Technological University	Mechanical Engineering AU545· Level 7	–	–	301	303	283	-20
Atlantic Technological University	Mechanical Engineering AU645· Level 8	–	–	431	430	441	+11
Atlantic Technological University	Mechanical Engineering AU833· Level 7	–	–	241	260	271	+11
Atlantic Technological University	Mechanical Engineering AU943· Level 8	–	–	322	413	409	-4
Cork Institute of Technology	Mechanical Engineering CR071· Level 7	263	–	–	–	–	–
Cork Institute of Technology	Mechanical Engineering CR108· Level 8	434	–	–	–	–	–
Dundalk Institute of Technology	Mechanical Engineering DK844· Level 8	336	404	334	381	287	-94
Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology	Mechanical Engineering GA670· Level 7	294	302	–	–	–	+8
Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology	Mechanical Engineering GA680· Level 8	400	410	–	–	–	+10
Institute of Technology, Carlow	Mechanical Engineering CW517· Level 7	290	338	–	–	–	+48
Institute of Technology, Carlow	Mechanical Engineering CW548· Level 8	330	379	–	–	–	+49
Institute of Technology, Sligo	Mechanical Engineering SG333· Level 7	225	236	–	–	–	+11
Institute of Technology, Sligo	Mechanical Engineering SG344· Level 8	412	404	–	–	–	-8
Letterkenny Institute of Technology	Mechanical Engineering LY608· Level 8	300	307	–	–	–	+7
Letterkenny Institute of Technology	Mechanical Engineering LY617· Level 7	163	176	–	–	–	+13
Limerick Institute of Technology	Mechanical Engineering LC285· Level 7	299	328	–	–	–	+29
Limerick Institute of Technology	Mechanical Engineering LC288· Level 8	378	381	–	–	–	+3
Munster Technological University	Mechanical Engineering MT736· Level 7	–	307	292	310	320	+10
Munster Technological University	Mechanical Engineering MT836· Level 8	–	465	460	453	466	+13
South East Technological University	Mechanical Engineering SE711· Level 8	–	–	343	433	433	0
South East Technological University	Mechanical Engineering SE723· Level 7	–	–	167	200	204	+4
South East Technological University	Mechanical Engineering SE724· Level 7	–	–	338	360	368	+8
South East Technological University	Mechanical Engineering SE731· Level 6	–	–	215	193	200	+7
Technological University Dublin	Mechanical Engineering TU603· Level 6	–	–	–	–	–	–
Technological University Dublin	Mechanical Engineering (General Entry) TU606· Level 6	192	AQA	–	–	–	–
Technological University Dublin	Mechanical Engineering TU717· Level 7	301	300	289	260	330	+70
Technological University Dublin	Mechanical Engineering TU718· Level 7	–	–	–	–	–	–
Technological University Dublin	Mechanical Engineering (General Entry) TU725· Level 7	222	170	AQA	AQA	AQA	-52
Technological University Dublin	Mechanical Engineering TU809· Level 8	–	–	–	–	–	–
Technological University Dublin	Mechanical Engineering (General Entry) TU828· Level 8	300	301	321	327	358	+31
Technological University of the Shannon	Mechanical Engineering US770· Level 7	–	–	227	233	–	+6
Technological University of the Shannon	Mechanical Engineering US771· Level 7	–	–	309	300	301	+1
Technological University of the Shannon	Mechanical Engineering US910· Level 8	–	–	309	309	278	-31
Technological University of the Shannon	Mechanical Engineering US911· Level 8	–	–	311	318	337	+19
University of Galway	Mechanical Engineering GY405· Level 8	541	566	532	544	566	+22
Waterford Institute of Technology	Mechanical Engineering WD011· Level 6	170	164	–	–	–	-6
Waterford Institute of Technology	Mechanical Engineering WD207· Level 7	172	146	–	–	–	-26

# 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 420 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.