Medicine points 2025
Medicine is offered at 6 colleges in Ireland, with entry points that differ widely between them. The CAO files it under health.
Lowest entry point
52
across the last five years
Highest
61
a spread of 9 points between colleges and years
Easiest college, five years
0
broadly unchanged
Some courses here are scored on a portfolio, an audition or an entrance test as well as points, and those figures can run past 625. They are left out of the three figures above, because they are not on the points scale. What that means.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCSI University of Medicine & Health Sciences | Medicine (Undergraduate Entry - HPAT required) RC001· Level 8#* | 741# | 741# | 734# | 732# | 733# | – |
| RCSI University of Medicine & Health Sciences | Medicine (Graduate Entry - GAMSAT required) RC101· Level 8#* | – | – | – | 56 | 58 | +2 |
| Trinity College Dublin | Medicine (Undergraduate Entry - HPAT required) TR051· Level 8# | 743# | 745# | 741# | 738# | 739# | – |
| University College Cork (NUI) | Medicine (Undergraduate Entry - HPAT required) CK701· Level 8#* | 738# | 738# | 732# | 730# | 730# | – |
| University College Cork (NUI) | Medicine (Graduate Entry - GAMSAT required) CK791· Level 8#* | 60 | 58 | – | 55 | 57 | +2 |
| University College Dublin (NUI) | Medicine (Undergraduate Entry - HPAT required) DN400· Level 8# | 743# | 743# | 736# | 735# | 738# | – |
| University College Dublin (NUI) | Medicine (Graduate Entry - GAMSAT required) DN401· Level 8#* | 61 | 60 | – | 57 | – | -3 |
| University of Galway | Medicine (Undergraduate Entry - HPAT required) GY501· Level 8#* | 737# | 736# | 729# | 728# | 728# | – |
| University of Limerick | Medicine (Graduate Entry - GAMSAT required) LM101· Level 8# | 57 | 56 | 52 | – | – | -4 |
# 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.
Why some figures here are above 625
625 is the most anyone can score on Leaving Certificate points alone. The courses marked # above are assessed partly on a portfolio, an audition or an entrance test, and the published figure adds that assessment to the points. So it sits on its own scale and can run well past 625.
A figure of 900 does not mean 900 points. It means points plus a portfolio mark, and you cannot compare your own total against it. That is also why the calculator leaves these courses out when it works out what your points would have reached.
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.