From 5 July the CAO Round A offers will be available to view online. Here, with thanks to the CAO, we run through the CAO offer and acceptance process,

For more information watch the video guide up top and visit cao.ie.

Successful applicants will also receive an email and a text message (if they have selected this option) with details of their offer.

Round A offers mainly concern mature applicants, mature nursing/ midwifery applicants, and deferred applicants, but offers are also issued to some applicants who have completed an access course, or those who may be required to make visa arrangements.

Offers must be accepted by 3 pm on Thursday next, 11 July – failure to accept an offer by the reply date will result in the offer being cancelled.

More Key Dates

A further offer round (Round Zero) will take place on 8 August for additional mature applicants, deferred and Access applicants, graduate entry medicine applicants, and applicants presenting QQI FET/FETAC qualifications for entry to courses with a quota for QQI FET/FETAC applicants.

For all other applicants, Round One offers will be issued on 28 August. Round One offers will be available to view online from 2pm, and successful applicants will also receive offer notification by email and text message if they have selected this option.

  • The reply date for Round One offers is 3 September by 3pm.
  • Round Two offers will be available to view online from 11 September from 2pm.

Speaking about the offer process, head of communications for CAO, Eileen Keleghan said: "We urge all mature, deferred and other applicants who may be expecting an offer at this stage to log in to their CAO accounts after 10am today to check if they have received a Round A offer.

"Successful applicants will also receive an email to the email account that they have registered on the CAO system."

"Offers must be accepted by 3 pm on Thursday next, 11 July – failure to accept an offer by the reply date will result in the offer being cancelled" she added.