The Irish Times 2025 Feeder Schools list provides new insights into how graduates of Irish second-level schools are progressing to third-level institutions in Ireland.
Former students who attended second level in the State secured 44,507 places on undergraduate programmes at third-level institutions listed in this supplement.
Technological University Dublin (TUD) has yet to provide details of approximately 1,300-1,500 students on their current first year undergraduate programmes – therefore, the final numbers for individual schools’ progression will not be fully complete until we receive that data in March/April 2026.
As funding for approximately 2,500 additional places was provided by Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science James Lawless in 2025, the final number of places secured by graduates of Irish schools is likely to be 46,000. We will publish updated data online when we receive this data from TUD.
The people who secured places in undergraduate programmes in 2025 sat the Leaving Cert in June last or in a previous year, and attended a wide range of school types, including Deis schools, private fee-paying schools, Gaelcholáistí (Irish medium), and other rec
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