Two-thirds of college applicants receive offer

MORE than two-thirds of applicants for college places will have good news this morning as they have been offered entry to one of their preferred courses.

The Central Applications Office (CAO) is making at least one offer to 46,577 — or 68% — of the 68,112 seeking a third level place.

They include almost 34,500 people being offered a honours bachelor degree (Level 8) course and 32,597 with the option of an ordinary bachelor degree or higher certificate programme (Level 7/6). Many candidates will have been offered one from each list of courses if they had the necessary Leaving Certificate points and met any specific subject requirements.