What 120 points would have got you in 2025
8 courses closed at or below 120 points in the 2025 round one offers, 3 of them honours degrees, across 6 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 2025 and moves every year. What makes it move.
Courses 120 points reached
| Course | Institution | Round 1 | Round 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Construction Management DK732 | Dundalk Institute of Technology | 120 | 120 |
| Graphic Communication Design - Dublin GC480 | Griffith College | 109 | 109 |
| Fashion Design - Dublin GC495 | Griffith College | 109 | 109 |
| Business Studies DB571 | Dublin Business School | 108 | 100 |
| Film and Creative Media DB576 | Dublin Business School | 108 | 108 |
| Medicine (Graduate Entry - GAMSAT required) RC101#* | RCSI University of Medicine & Health Sciences | 58 | – |
| Medicine (Graduate Entry - GAMSAT required) DN401#* | University College Dublin (NUI) | 58 | – |
| Medicine (Graduate Entry - GAMSAT required) CK791#* | University College Cork (NUI) | 57 | 57 |
Just out of reach
Within twenty points above 120. Points move by more than this from one year to the next, so these are worth putting on a list rather than writing off.
| Course | Institution | Round 1 | Round 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business GB001 | Galway Business School | 122 | – |
| Business in Marketing DB573 | Dublin Business School | 126 | 126 |
| Communications - Dublin GC465 | Griffith College | 126 | 126 |
| Business NC103 | National College of Ireland (NCI) | 129 | 129 |
| Interior Architecture & Design - Dublin GC490 | Griffith College | 130 | 130 |
| Enterprise Management GB002 | Galway Business School | 134 | – |
| Sport, Exercise and Enterprise DK763 | Dundalk Institute of Technology | 136 | 120 |
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 2025 round one points published by the CAO, read from its own points lists, checked 30 July 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.