Engineering (Common Entry) Careers

Our common entry Engineering course is designed to give you a broad first year of study where you will then specialise in your desired discipline.

* Not all applicants who scored these points were offered places.

Key information

CAO points 2025 510 *

EU fees per year €7,366

Non-EU fees per year €22,700

NFQ Level NFQ Level 8

Duration Four or five years

Attendance Full-time

Course code LM116

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Career opportunities

The career opportunities will depend primarily on the BE course chosen by you. Typical career areas include:

Biomedical Engineering

Design and manufacture of Medical Devices such as vascular stents, hip and knee replacements, neurological based surgical tools. Development of biomaterials using tissue engineering approaches such as 3D bioprinting.

Mechanical Engineering

Engineering component design, Design and Control of Energy Utilisation Equipment, Safety and Reliability, Automobile Design, Materials Development, Mechanical Design in Aerospace, Biomedical, ICT, Process, Pharmaceutical and Manufacturing Industries, Gas turbine design.

Civil Engineering

Civil/Structural Engineer, Design Engineer, Environmental Engineer, Traffic/Motorway Engineer.

Design and Manufacture Engineering

Mechanical Design for Biomedical, ICT Process, Pharmaceutical and Manufacturing Industries, Project Management, Materials and Structural Analysis, Consultancy, Design Engineering, Quality Engineer, Automation Engineer, Computer Aided Engineering.