An integral part of the course is the Cooperative Education period, during which you will spend eight months working in a course-related job in a business or industrial environment outside the University. You will undertake a substantial individual project in your final year, which integrates and applies your previous learning and deepens your knowledge of some particular application or research area relevant to the course.

Applicants are required to hold at the time of enrolment the established Leaving Certificate (or an approved equivalent) with a minimum of six subjects which must include: Two H5 (Higher Level) grades and Four O6 (Ordinary Level) grades or four H7 (Higher Level) grades. Subjects must include Mathematics, Irish or another language, and English. In addition, applicants must hold a minimum grade O2/H6 in Mathematics. A Special Mathematics Examination will be offered at UL following the Leaving Certificate results for those students who did not achieve the Mathematics requirement. We welcome applications from mature students. Mature applicants must apply through the Central Applications Office (CAO) by 1 February.