Social Care Practice points 2025
Social Care Practice is offered at 6 colleges in Ireland, with entry points that differ widely between them. The CAO files it under welfare.
Lowest entry point
260
across the last five years
Highest
309
a spread of 49 points between colleges and years
Easiest college, five years
-11
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athlone Institute of Technology | Social Care Practice AL860· Level 8 | 301 | 301 | – | – | – | 0 |
| Atlantic Technological University | Social Care Practice AU918· Level 8 | – | – | 300 | 300 | 303 | +3 |
| Institute of Technology, Sligo | Social Care Practice SG243· Level 8 | 309 | 302 | – | – | – | -7 |
| South East Technological University | Social Care Practice SE919· Level 8 | – | – | 260 | 260 | 260 | 0 |
| Technological University of the Shannon | Social Care Practice US921· Level 8 | – | – | 270 | 270 | 260 | -10 |
| Waterford Institute of Technology | Social Care Practice WD192· Level 8 | 271 | 287 | – | – | – | +16 |
# 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
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.