Undergraduate Gender Profile
Monitoring
University of Limerick tracks and monitors its applicant and student data for trends including for gender equality concerns.
UL’s academic departments and faculties monitor the gender profile of the student pipeline as part of their Athena Swan activities and implement initiatives to help address the gender imbalance in their courses.
Initiatives and Supports
Initiatives across UL involve tailored mentoring & academic supports for under represented genders as well as targeted outreach to primary and post-primary schools to encourage school children to consider pursuing courses impacted by gender imbalances.
Scholarships and support networks are available to help women pursue science, technology, engineering or maths courses.
- Johnson and Johnson WiSTEM2D Programme at the University of Limerick which aims to inspire and support more women into STEM subjects through mentoring, workshops and bursaries .
- Watch graduates of STEM courses from UL on why they chose a STEM subject and the careers they pursued.
- The SOPHia project aims to encourage more students, especially girls, to take up physics as a Leaving Certificate Subject. SOPHia Science Outreach to Promote Physics
The Department of Biological Sciences is working to address gender imbalance in a field where men are under-represented including equine studies and biological sciences. This includes running 106 activities engaging over 20,000 people through outreach activities.
Applicant to Enrolment Data
These images and tables provide the gender profile of the undergraduate student pipeline from applicants, through acceptance of offers to enrolment and graduating from our courses.
Applicant and acceptance data is sourced from University records. Enrolment data is based on HEA published data. The filters applied to the HEA data were Gender as row variable, Field of Study: All, Institute: University of Limerick, New Entrant: Yes, Programme Type: Honours Degrees.
The figures relates to University of Limerick Level 8 Honours Degrees.
| Academic Year | Stage | Female | Male | Another Value |
| 2024/5 | Applicants | 54.20% | 45.20% | 0.60% |
| Accepts | 48.40% | 51.00% | 0.50% | |
| Enrolment | 49.00% | 50.40% | 0.50% | |
| 2023/4 | Applicants | 55.20% | 44.30% | 0.60% |
| Accepts | 49.40% | 50.20% | 0.40% | |
| Enrolment | 48.60% | 51.00% | 0.50% | |
| 2022/3 | Applicants | 56.00% | 43.40% | 0.60% |
| Accepts | 50.10% | 49.20% | 0.70% | |
| Enrolment | 49.20% | 50.20% | 0.60% | |
| 2021/2 | Applicants | 56.30% | 42.60% | 1.00% |
| Accepts | 48.60% | 51.20% | 0.20% | |
| Enrolment | 48.30% | 51.40% | 0.20% | |
| 2020/1 | Applicants | 56.80% | 42.80% | 0.30% |
| Accepts | 49.90% | 49.80% | 0.30% | |
| Enrolment | 50.20% | 49.50% | 0.30% |
Graduation Data
Graduate data is based on HEA published data and relates to University of Limerick Level 8 Honours Degrees. The filters applied to the HEA data were Gender as row variable, Award Types: Honours degrees, Field of Study: All, Institute: University of Limerick.
| Graduation Year | Female | Male | Another Value |
| 2025 | 52.30% | 47.50% | 0.20% |
| 2024 | 52.90% | 46.90% | 0.10% |
| 2023 | 51.10% | 48.90% | 0.00% |
| 2022 | 50.80% | 49.20% | 0.00% |
| 2021 | 50.10% | 49.90% | 0.10% |
