Cut-off points for admission to music degrees (1999)
UCC: music AQA; arts/music 445 DIT: music 355 Mater Dei: religon/education/ music 370 TCD: music 365; music education 325** UCD: music AQA; BA 380* NUI Maynooth: music (ranked on the basis of an interview; matriculation only required); BA 360* St Patrick's College, Maynooth: theology and arts 340* WIT: music 255 CIT: music 660 Mary Immaculate (offered under UL): BA 390; BEd 445* St Patrick's, Drumcondra: BA humanities 405 Royal Irish Academy of Music (offered under DCU): BA in music performance
* random selection applied AQA all qualified applicants were offered a place.
** The music education degree is offered by the RIAM, DIT and TCD. Students who enter in 2000 will do the performance element in the RIAM and the education element in TCD. Each year, the performance element is offered alternatively by DIT or the RIAM.
Cut-off points for certs and diplomas (1999)
CIT: music teaching 330; music foundation 280
Degree courses in Northern Ireland colleges
Queen's University, Belfast, offers a three-year BMus. The University of Ulster offers a three-year bachelor of music degree.
Useful address
Secretary of the Council of the Heads of Music in Higher Education, Royal Irish Academy of Music, 36-38 Westland Row, Dublin 2. The CHMHE has produced a comprehensive booklet detailing undergraduate and postgraduate music courses in Ireland (Edition 2000).
