Psychology points 2025

Psychology is offered at 15 colleges in Ireland, with entry points that differ widely between them. The CAO files it under social and behavioural sciences.

Lowest entry point

208

across the last five years

Highest

601

a spread of 393 points between colleges and years

Easiest college, five years

+32

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.

College	Course	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	Change
Atlantic Technological University	Psychology AU698· Level 8	–	–	357	358	352	-6
Carlow College, St. Patrick`s	Psychology PC414· Level 8	–	300	298	298	306	+8
Dublin Business School	Psychology DB562· Level 8	244	251	252	251	260	+9
Dublin City University	Psychology and Mathematics DC207· Level 8	521	520	480	487	492	+5
Dublin City University	Psychology DC208· Level 8	565	543	534	555	533	-22
Griffith College	Psychology GC409· Level 8	–	–	–	244	264	+20
Mary Immaculate College	Psychology MI003· Level 8	–	487	484	484	476	-8
Maynooth University	Psychology MH106· Level 8	554	530	533	532	509	-23
Maynooth University	Psychology (through Science) MH209· Level 8	529	510	499	518	488	-30
National College of Ireland (NCI)	Psychology NC010· Level 8	420	400	391	392	385	-7
South East Technological University	Psychology SE205· Level 8	–	–	421	440	433	-7
St Nicholas Montessori College Ireland	Psychology NM802· Level 8	228	263	208	–	–	-55
Trinity College Dublin	Psychology TR006· Level 8*	601	600	589	592	578	-14
University College Dublin (NUI)	Criminology with Psychology DN620· Level 8	–	–	531	519	509	-10
University College Dublin (NUI)	Psychology DN720· Level 8*	566	564	554	565	545	-20
University of Galway	Psychology GY104· Level 8	564	545	531	534	541	+7
University of Limerick	Psychology LM102· Level 8	534	531	510	519	499	-20
Waterford Institute of Technology	Psychology WD163· Level 8	456	444	–	–	–	-12

# 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 393 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.