Hello!

I'll be graduating in May this year and I was wondering whether there's an official point conversion from IB to CAO? I can only find the conversions for Ireland's educational system and for A-levels, but "usually" universities include IB as well, since it's a popular program.

Thanks a lot!

hi guys, i wanna apply for Erasmus trainee for 6 month in ireland, but the embessy told me that they don't know which type of visa should i apply for, and the trainin and internship visa are both shortstay. what type of visa sholud i apply for?

Questions from an American

Hiii! I’m a college student in California and I’m going to be studying abroad in Ireland in the coming spring. Im going to be staying as a guest at Dublin City University. I’m a little (a lot) nervous because I’m going alone, and I’d really appreciate advice from any locals or Irish students for an American visiting Ireland for the first time 😅

Hello r/StudyInIreland,

I am about complete my bachelor's degree in the US and am interested in doing my post-graduate studies in Ireland. My bachelor's degree will be in Information Systems with a specialization in Health Informatics, and I'm hoping to pursue an MSc or PhD in Bioinformatics. There are two main degrees I'm looking at currently, the MSc at UCC (https://www.ucc.ie/en/ckr33/) and the PhD at UG (https://www.universityofgalway.ie/courses/research-postgraduate-programmes/structured-phd/bioinformatics.html). Based on what I've read about these and university in Ireland in general, I have a few questions to hopefully get a more realistic view of what I should do.

1. Is it realistic to apply for a PhD with only bachelor's if I do have significant research experience, or is an MSc usually necessary to be seriously considered for admission? In other words, would it be worth a shot to apply to the PhD at Galway?
2. If I do go for the PhD in Galway, how difficult is it to get funded or is it easy? Do you apply for all the grants yourself or does the school help you out for at least some of the cost?
3. If I go for the master's in Cork, which has a 3-month research placement, how do international students often pay for the degree? For example, could I apply for research grants or does the placement not count for those? Are loans used at all and what are their terms?

I would appreciate any guidance you all have!

Hi Everyone, As an international student on stamp 2, I need this to renew my IRP and all Private medical insurance are around 500 euro for one year. I am looking for more affordable insurance. If anyone has idea, please let me know.

Hi, i am an international student,completed my bachelors degree in 5 years whereas the regular period of complication in 4 years. I had one arrear in one of the subject. Am i going to get admission in any of masters program in ireland. I am looking for a masters in data analytics. I have domain experience of about 3 years . Also should i try to hide this information on my application or should i open about it .

So, one of my friend got student Visa last month as her visa states nov1-april 12025 and she is international student.

Can she travel to Ireland nov last week?

But as her college starts from jan Last week

Is she ok with immigration and all?

She wants to sort out everything here so she wanna come earlier as she already got her accomodation. Please provide some links if she can travel or not.

Thank you in advance.

Hi everyone! I’m an international student getting ready to move to Ireland, and I’m finding the whole process of finding accommodation a bit overwhelming. 😅 I’d love any tips or advice from those of you who’ve been through it!

I found RentSmart.ie to be quite helpful since it’s free to browse listings without extra costs, which is nice on a student budget. But if anyone has recommendations for good areas near universities, or knows of any other student-friendly housing sites, I’d be super grateful!

Also, if you have advice on what to expect when it comes to renting here—like typical lease terms or things to watch out for—I’d love to hear it. Thanks in advance for any help!

Hi everyone!

I'm tentatively (very tentatively) considering studying in Ireland. I wanted to do some research comparing the average cost to study in Ireland vs. the schools in my area I've been considering, but I'm just finding some confusing information.

As a student from the US, what would I, on average, be looking at, budget-wise? Including things like average tuition, housing, food and utilities, whatever paperwork to stay in country... etc. Just general information, or what you had to pay, etc.

Thanks :)

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Hi everyone,

I am an international student. I'm doing 4th year at my university at TU Dublin (I got 1 year for English Foundation 2019-2020, and then I started my university in 2020. So, may I ask for my plan next year that applies to my Master's degree at TU Dublin as well? Can I pay the EU tuition fee next year or not?

I hope you have a lovely night.

Thank you so much.

Kind regard,

Mia

hii, I'm an italian student who is considering moving to do my bachelors in dublin, specifically in trinity college but also I've considered a few other colleges, but I'm quite confused on how to apply as an international student, since the application deadlines are around april but they want our last exam's results which end in june/july

can any of you help please??

Hey, American here studying in Dublin. I want to travel to England for a few days next weekend but am really stressed about border control on the way back. I have a friend who just got back from Paris without an IRP just fine, but because England's not in the EU I'm a bit more worried. Is it a bad idea to go?

To confirm: I have a stamp in my passport valid through November and my IRP appointment scheduled for early December. If I go to England, I'll definitely bring all the documents I had when I first came into the country + the printed email confirming my appointment is scheduled.

Hi, Has anyone applied for a student visa for the January 2025 intake for a master’s program in Ireland? Looking for advice and updates on the process!

I’m interested in hospitality and I have found out a course at TU Dublin for Hospitality Studies (Level 6). However, the requirement is that one should have ordinary level maths as one of their subjects for the leaving certificate. I have completed my leaving certificate outside of Ireland and do not have maths in my leaving certificate.. I’d be thankful if someone told me if there are ways to achieve that requirement.

I am currently about to give my 10th boards and the universtity stress is hitting mee, I am average in academics and am interested in a degree in the business field.

Also my extracurriculars are pretty shit, though I plan to do something for it in the next 2 years. Which universities do you think would be suited for me as of my condition? So far I have only done a bit of research on University college dublin and Trinity.

The country; from what I know seems to not have costs that are extremely high as compared to other places and has nice people so I got interested in pursuing my further studies here.

I applied for a study Visa for September 2024 intake in June but up to now I have not received any decision. My school have deferred me to February intake. How do I go about this with the embassy? Should I wait for my decision to come out first?

My father will be sponsoring my education. He is a sole owner of a company and have a solid bank statement in the Company account. However, his personal account was average before (not high but not too low either). To pay my fee, he transferred around 28,000 Euro into his personal account and paid the fee. After fee, he has around 14,000 Euros in his personal account and around 9,000 Euros in Company account.
Is it okay if I submit both the bank statements with the Visa application and Account Maintenance certificates or does all of this hamper my chances of getting the visa?

Also, What is the realistic timeline for Visa processing for January intake?
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Im a choctaw looking to get educated in ireland thanks to the choctaw-ireland scholarship programme, and im wanting to know how welcoming cork is to foreigners seeing the only collage in the program is university cork collage.

I’m non EU. I’m considering doing a master. I checked the grades equivalence and a 2.1 is an 80% from a middle eastern university.

My final grade was 79.71 so did get a high 2.2 or a low 2.1?

Does the grade get rounded up. Can I apply to degrees that require 2.1?

Hello!

I am an American masters student currently on a Stamp 2 and awaiting my grades to apply for my 1G stamp. However, I was on a 1-year course and my IRP card is due to expire end of this year. I don’t receive my grades until November: would it be too late to apply for the 1G stamp and would I have to leave Ireland? Also, if I don’t manage to renew it, do I lose the ability to apply for the 1G since I need an IRP card? How else can I return to Ireland to work one day?

Hi! So this year I’m in my final year of HS in Romania and I’m going to apply through CAO as I want to go to Trinity College Dublin, but the document where you can see the equivalent of the CAO points to the weighted average of my country’s final national exam accepted DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE. For the maximum grade it’s fine (10/10=600) and then (9/10=498) but what if you get 9.5, 9.3 or 9.7 or 9.75 cuz that’s what usually happens… do you get more CAO points? And how many more what’s the conversion… This makes me super stressed and scared that if I don’t get accepted because I wasn’t even aware how to calculate my score I’ll only find out I didn’t get in during August and I’ll have to take a gap year…. please helpp!!! I’m super stressed..

I’m considering doing a master in Ireland. I’m from a non English speaking country. I graduated from a UK university (Undergraduate level ) Am I waived from doing an English test?

Hi – I desperately need help.

I have a multi-entry student visa that only expires in Feb BUT of course, my 90 days to register with immigration is up before that, on 29 November. The problem is, I can't get a registration appointment until Christmas.

Can I still travel outside of Ireland after the 90-day expiry and come back on my multi-entry visa (that will still be valid at that time)?

Am new to this as Cork is now moving to renewing IRP through this website. The portal is not responding no matter how I try to log in, it was working perfectly just days ago. Anyone having the same issue? Am really anxious trying to renew my IRP!

Is it possible to study in ireland for a Minor Award (30 ECTs) I am studying a batcheor abroad but in 3rd year we can choose a Minor - I want to do this in Ireland in the field of healthcare would anyone have any advice

Hey! I’m considering doing psychology conversion programs in Ireland, and am looking at programs in: Galway, Cork, and Limerick (also Glasgow). Any insight on what the cities are like there?

Hi guys, this is my first Reddit post so hopefully I'm doing this right. I'm from the UK and I am confused about the CAO points.

I'm looking at universities in Ireland this year, I've always wanted to move/study there, but I'm stuck on converting to the CAO points thing. I'm pretty sure to apply to universities you need to know how many CAO points you have. Is there a website that will convert my A levels/GCSEs into those CAO points? Is the CAO points important? Do I need to do this?

To be honest, I have no clue on what I need to do to actually apply to Irish universities. If anyone knows any website's, tips or YouTube videos to educate me I'll be so happy. Especially with the converting thing, thankss.

I have got an offer letter from my university. Also, I have already prepared all the documents needed to apply for Ireland Visa. But, Ireland immigration said on their regulations that I must provide a document of visa refusal if I have one. The thing is I don’t have that USA student visa refusal paper anymore because it was at 2021. My education agent told me she has never had this kind of experience with students. She told me to write an email to the Irish Embassy in Thailand. So, I wrote it and explained my situation. The embassy still hasn’t reply. But I am really hoping for it. Guys, should i be worry?

Me and my partner are trying to be placed in the same area for safety, rent, etc. However if we were to be accepted into one university only, our chances of being together are reduced.

Hello guys,
I'm an International Student who recently moved to Ireland for my Masters. I would like to hear your thoughts on the IRP, GNIB and PPSN. Do I need to get all three to start working here or would it just work with PPSN ?

And also guys would like to understand the part-time job opportunities in Limerick. What is it like in general?

I would like to get any part-time sales and customer support roles. Any agencies that you would suggest?

Do people get paid internships here ?