Courses you can get with 100 CAO points 2026
2 courses closed at or below 100 points in the 2026 round one offers, 2 of them honours degrees, across 2 institutions.
Read that as history rather than as a promise. A course's points are the points of the last applicant who was offered a place, so the number describes where the queue was cut in 2026 and moves every year. What makes it move.
Courses at 100 points
2 closed at or below 100 points, and 4 closed within twenty points above it. Points move by more than that from one year to the next, so the ones just short are worth putting on a list rather than writing off. Sort any column, or narrow by level, institution and how close you are.
Showing 4 of 6 courses
2 courses are hidden, the ones the CAO marks as needing a portfolio, an audition, an interview or a test. Where that assessment is scored and added to the Leaving Certificate total, the figure beside the course is not a points total and cannot be compared with the rest. .
- Random selection
- More people had these points than there were places, so the last places went to a lottery. Having the points did not guarantee an offer.
| Sound Engineering and Music Production DB534Dublin Business SchoolLevel 7 | Dublin Business School | 109 | 109 | -9 |
| Business in Marketing DB573Dublin Business SchoolLevel 7 | Dublin Business School | 112 | 112 | -12 |
| Film and Creative Media DB576Dublin Business SchoolLevel 7 | Dublin Business School | 116 | 116 | -16 |
| Interior Architecture & Design - Dublin GC490Griffith CollegeLevel 7 | Griffith College | 120 | 120 | -20 |
Work out your own number
If you have not added up your grades yet, the points calculator does it, shows which six subjects counted, and tells you what the maths bonus is worth to you.
Figures are the 2026 round one points published by the CAO, read from its own points lists (opens in a new tab), checked 8 September 2026. Courses assessed partly on a portfolio, audition or test are left out, because their published score is on a different scale and cannot be compared with a points total.