How many points do you need in your leaving cert to be an engineer ??

Question: How many points do you need in your leaving cert to be an engineer ??
- Keywords:
  engineer,
  leaving certificate,
  points
Asked by niamhc.8 to Conor, Frederik, Ilaria, Jeffrey, Sarah on 3 Mar 2016. This question was also asked by 992cdge43.
- Jeffrey Roe answered on 3 Mar 2016:
  
  If you go to the CAO website you can see the list of all the points for the different courses. http://www.cao.ie/courses.php .
  The points range quite wide depending on where in the country you want to study. But one thing to note is you can do a pre course if you find yourself not getting enough points. Something like this .https://www.dorset-college.ie/course/82/foundation-engineering-it
- Conor McGinn answered on 3 Mar 2016:
  
  Its going up every year. Engineering in Trinity/UCD is around 500 points at the moment
- Sarah Doran answered on 6 Mar 2016:
  
  Hey Niamh,
  It depends what type of engineering you would like to study. I studied Computer Science and that course required 440 points last year http://www.ucc.ie/en/ck401/
- Frederik Gossen answered on 9 Mar 2016:
  
  I haven’t got a clue 😀

Question: How many points do you need in your leaving cert to be an engineer ??