Although most CAO points will remain similar to last year, coures points such as nursing, science and agriculture are expected to rise. An overall number of 3,766 applicants applied to CAO this year with a whopping 1,500 of these being mature students.
Many applicants are applying for Honours Bachelors Degrees with Trinity seeing a 10 per cent increase in first preference applications. NUI Galway (up 8 per cent) and UCD (up 6 per cent ) also showed impressive gains. NUI Maynooth (up 1.5 per cent) registered an increase in student demand for the third year in a row. The patterns for the other colleges were DCU (plus 0.7 per cent) ; DIT (minus 2 per cent); National College of Ireland (up 20 per cent); University of Limerick (up 0.04 per cent) and RCSI (up 7 per cent).
Many of the institutes registered very strong increases in demand including those in Blanchardstown, Carlow, Waterford and Cork. But both Galway/Mayo IT and Sligo IT saw a steep decline in applications.
In other trends, there was a fall off in student demand for courses where job prospects are thought to be poor. These include pharmacy (down over 30 per cent) and physiotherapy (down 3 per cent).
Nursing: Student demand is up by 12 per cent, even though the HSE has cut over 300 places from the 1,800 available last year.
With more students chasing fewer places, CAO points for nursing can be expected to increase this year.
Arts courses: Overall demand remains strong with applications up by 5 per cent.
There is strong demand in areas like agriculture, science, engineering/technology, art and design, medicine, veterinary medicine and nursing, all areas where there are decent job prospects.
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