Full-time Degrees / Certificates  

CAO Available Places now open. For a full list of CAO Available Place Courses at DBS click here. For any CAO queries please contact charlotte.hickey@dbs.ie

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Are you trying to decide where to go to college? And, what you’ll do when you get there? Here at DBS, we carry a comprehensive range of career-focused courses in the areas of Business, Psychology, Media, Computing and Law. This means whether you want to be a Lawyer, Music Producer, Businessperson, Accountant, Filmmaker, Psychologist, or anything else you’ve dreamed of… you can start off on the right path here

We know that there’s much more to being a student than just studying. We want to help you develop your whole personality and offer a long list of activities and events to take you out of the lecture theatre and really get to know your fellow students. Check out the Student Experience social media page to see what's going on! 

For further information or to learn more about our programmes, please contact our Admissions Office on (01) 4177500 or by email at admissions@dbs.ie

Important Update for September 2020

DBS is delighted to announce that it will be offering free tuition fees on four of its programmes through CAO as part of additional places under the Government Human Capital Initiative (HCI). This means there are no tuition fees for those four programmes, and students will only have to pay a €1,500 registration fee if they are successfully offered a place through CAO in September 2020. Open to EU students only. For more information contact admissions@dbs.ie

The CAO programmes included are:

BSc (Hons) Computing (CAO Code: DB500)

BSc (Hons) Computing (Data Analytics and Big Data)  (CAO Code: DB502)

BA (Hons) Business (Information Systems)  (CAO Code: DB524)

BA (Hons) Business (Cloud Computing)  (CAO Code: DB526)

Applications through CAO

Applicants under the age of 23 years need to apply for full-time undergraduate courses via the CAO. If you have any questions about your application, our Admissions Team is on hand to help you. 

DBS offers a wide range of full-time Honours Degree (Level 8), Ordinary Degree (Level 7) and Higher Certificate (Level 6) undergraduate courses.

View our Full-Time Undergraduate Summary here

View our Full-Time Undergraduate Brochure here

CAO  Applicants

Leaving Certificate, FETAC, A Level and all students completing school leaving exams are generally required to apply through CAO where a CAO code is provided. Where a CAO code is not provided students may apply directly to the college instead.

Dates for each CAO Round

Round One
Offer Date: 11^th September, 2020 from 14:00
Reply Date: 16^th September, 2020 by 15:00

Round Two
Offer Date: 23^rd September, 2020 from 10:00
Reply Date: 25^th September, 2020 by 12:00

Round Three
Offer Date: 1^st October, 2020 from 10:00
Reply Date: 6^th October, 2020 by 15:00

Round Four
Offer Date: 8^th October, 2020 from 10:00
Reply Date: 13^th October, 2020 by 15:00

Mature Applicants

Students who are applying for programmes as mature applicants will be required to be over the age of 23 as on 1st January in the year of entry. Mature students may apply through CAO or directly through the college.  They are not required to do both.

Transfer Applicants

If you have started or completed a third level  qualification already you may be eligible for advanced entry. Please apply directly to DBS.

EU Entry Requirements

For information about how the entry requirements equate to the school-leaving qualifications from your country, please see the Agreed entry requirements criteria for EU/EFTA applicants.