Institutes of Technology

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 23 May 2017

Tuesday, 23 May 2017

Questions (211, 212)

David Cullinane

Question:

211. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Education and Skills the enrolment figures for WIT, Waterford Institute of Technology, by graduate and undergraduate in each of the years 2007 to 2016 and to date in 2017, including percentage changes, each year in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24253/17]

David Cullinane

Question:

212. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Education and Skills the enrolment figures for each higher education institute by graduate and undergraduate in each of the years 2007 to 2016 and to date in 2017, including percentage changes each year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24254/17]

Written answers

Minister for Education and Skills (Deputy Richard Bruton)

The information for the academic years 2007/08 to 2015/16 is outlined in the following tables.

Table 1

Institute	2007/2008	2008/2009	2009/2010	2010/2011	2011/2012	2012/2013	2013/2014	2014/2015	2015/2016
Athlone IT	4,256	3,754	4,644	4,961	4,732	4,835	4,926	4,996	4,877
Postgraduate	152	194	285	446	376	436	434	466	435
Undergraduate	4,104	3,560	4,359	4,515	4,356	4,399	4,492	4,530	4,442
Cork IT	8,739	8,390	9,182	9,310	9,609	9,761	10,145	10,323	10,519
Postgraduate	371	380	653	422	541	616	706	784	707
Undergraduate	8,368	8,010	8,529	8,888	9,068	9,145	9,439	9,539	9,812
Dublin City University	9,233	9,640	10,101	10,238	10,343	10,760	10,886	10,918	12,672
Postgraduate	2,718	2,838	3,192	3,013	2,621	2,602	2,552	2,402	2,362
Undergraduate	6,515	6,802	6,909	7,225	7,722	8,158	8,334	8,516	10,310
Dublin Institute of Technology	13,749	14,056	15,895	15,978	16,750	17,000	18,236	18,539	19,323
Postgraduate	1,873	1,684	2,461	2,436	2,499	2,422	2,710	2,842	2,827
Undergraduate	11,876	12,372	13,434	13,542	14,251	14,578	15,526	15,697	16,496
Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology	1,689	1,884	2,182	2,205	2,264	2,261	2,243	2,217	2,265
Postgraduate	105	165	160	144	88	100	122	121	202
Undergraduate	1,584	1,719	2,022	2,061	2,176	2,161	2,121	2,096	2,063
Dundalk IT	4,087	4,234	4,566	4,687	4,569	4,667	4,640	4,786	4,999
Postgraduate	154	160	155	164	172	139	117	164	171
Undergraduate	3,933	4,074	4,411	4,523	4,397	4,528	4,523	4,622	4,828
Galway-Mayo IT	5,991	5,862	6,479	6,589	6,445	6,124	5,906	6,202	6,427
Postgraduate	111	104	137	168	120	158	116	140	193
Undergraduate	5,880	5,758	6,342	6,421	6,325	5,966	5,790	6,062	6,234
IT Blanchardstown	1,665	1,691	2,102	2,445	2,855	3,124	3,256	3,235	3,236
Postgraduate	64	51	67	47	30	91	142	129	106
Undergraduate	1,601	1,640	2,035	2,398	2,825	3,033	3,114	3,106	3,130
IT Carlow	3,306	4,197	4,282	4,872	5,051	5,371	6,339	6,221	6,820
Postgraduate	34	49	116	168	140	191	436	539	620
Undergraduate	3,272	4,148	4,166	4,704	4,911	5,180	5,903	5,682	6,200
IT Sligo	4,484	3,774	4,058	4,343	4,355	4,131	3,961	3,973	3,820
Postgraduate	288	55	95	133	109	94	92	80	73
Undergraduate	4,196	3,719	3,963	4,210	4,246	4,037	3,869	3,893	3,747
IT Tallaght	3,323	3,545	3,905	4,138	4,038	4,351	4,721	5,085	5,020
Postgraduate	562	191	211	144	82	85	189	297	200
Undergraduate	2,761	3,354	3,694	3,994	3,956	4,266	4,532	4,788	4,820
IT Tralee	2,247	2,467	2,666	2,805	2,881	2,893	2,815	3,002	2,890
Postgraduate	107	131	81	69	88	71	90	106	134
Undergraduate	2,140	2,336	2,585	2,736	2,793	2,822	2,725	2,896	2,756
Letterkenny IT	2,165	2,867	3,168	3,098	2,916	3,293	3,389	3,587	3,820
Postgraduate	41	73	158	136	142	148	210	188	264
Undergraduate	2,124	2,794	3,010	2,962	2,774	3,145	3,179	3,399	3,556
Limerick IT	3,445	3,991	4,824	5,011	5,612	5,676	5,971	6,075	6,099
Postgraduate	65	73	111	168	167	200	295	276	252
Undergraduate	3,380	3,918	4,713	4,843	5,445	5,476	5,676	5,799	5,847
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick	2,954	3,022	3,058	3,027	2,961	3,044	3,090	3,179	3,687
Postgraduate	562	570	511	469	447	456	478	556	578
Undergraduate	2,392	2,452	2,547	2,558	2,514	2,588	2,612	2,623	3,109
Mater Dei Institute, Clonliffe Road, Dublin 3.	460	671	725	726	655	633	581	557	398
Postgraduate	63	76	103	135	144	126	110	106	115
Undergraduate	397	595	622	591	511	507	471	451	283
National College of Art and Design	954	1,044	1,174	1,145	1,162	1,155	1,224	1,311	1,377
Postgraduate	132	126	190	169	197	188	171	148	153
Undergraduate	822	918	984	976	965	967	1,053	1,163	1,224
National University of Ireland, Galway	15,381	16,164	16,766	16,948	17,026	17,188	16,977	17,216	17,857
Postgraduate	3,462	3,663	3,944	3,757	3,647	3,539	3,573	3,618	3,834
Undergraduate	11,919	12,501	12,822	13,191	13,379	13,649	13,404	13,598	14,023
National University of Ireland, Maynooth	6,641	7,429	8,050	8,481	10,001	9,739	10,023	10,499	11,119
Postgraduate	1,277	1,588	1,851	1,872	2,099	1,955	1,992	1,980	2,000
Undergraduate	5,364	5,841	6,199	6,609	7,902	7,784	8,031	8,519	9,119
Royal College of Surgeons	2,718	2,521	2,896	3,310	3,451	3,318	3,301	3,686	3,419
Postgraduate	835	1,000	941	1,267	1,045	1,030	928	1,377	1,162
Undergraduate	1,883	1,521	1,955	2,043	2,406	2,288	2,373	2,309	2,257
St. Angela's College of Home Economics, Sligo	753	902	854	857	936	1,087	1,182	1,315	1,278
Postgraduate	229	253	329	266	238	434	494	575	465
Undergraduate	524	649	525	591	698	653	688	740	813
St. Patrick's College Drumcondra	2,535	2,771	2,670	2,594	2,535	2,401	2,474	2,383	2,170
Postgraduate	754	958	860	756	708	552	575	533	527
Undergraduate	1,781	1,813	1,810	1,838	1,827	1,849	1,899	1,850	1,643
Tipperary Institute	727	717	721	1,017
Postgraduate		1
Undergraduate	727	716	721	1,017
Trinity College Dublin	14,969	15,488	16,173	16,268	16,377	15,858	15,700	15,993	16,298
Postgraduate	4,552	4,781	5,017	4,776	4,778	4,493	4,278	4,369	4,626
Undergraduate	10,417	10,707	11,156	11,492	11,599	11,365	11,422	11,624	11,672
University College Cork	15,878	16,402	17,006	17,217	18,088	18,520	18,929	19,048	19,521
Postgraduate	3,074	3,636	3,893	3,817	3,871	4,046	4,150	4,293	4,395
Undergraduate	12,804	12,766	13,113	13,400	14,217	14,474	14,779	14,755	15,126
University College Dublin	21,809	22,512	23,660	23,608	23,522	23,945	24,598	24,811	25,654
Postgraduate	5,639	6,005	6,993	7,003	7,201	7,483	7,578	7,489	7,716
Undergraduate	16,170	16,507	16,667	16,605	16,321	16,462	17,020	17,322	17,938
University of Limerick	10,124	10,562	10,845	11,171	11,182	11,837	12,376	12,185	13,246
Postgraduate	2,078	2,088	2,191	2,256	2,256	2,618	2,903	2,695	2,725
Undergraduate	8,046	8,474	8,654	8,915	8,926	9,219	9,473	9,490	10,521
Waterford IT	7,539	7,953	7,840	8,191	8,025	8,307	8,201	7,980	7,792
Postgraduate	797	941	847	791	810	928	868	792	852
Undergraduate	6,742	7,012	6,993	7,400	7,215	7,379	7,333	7,188	6,940
Total	171,821	178,510	190,492	195,240	198,341	201,279	206,090	209,322	216,603

Table 2

Institute	2008/2009	2009/2010	2010/2011	2011/2012	2012/2013	2013/2014	2014/2015	2015/2016
Athlone IT	-11.8%	23.7%	6.8%	-4.6%	2.2%	1.9%	1.4%	-2.4%
Postgraduate	27.6%	46.9%	56.5%	-15.7%	16.0%	-0.5%	7.4%	-6.7%
Undergraduate	-13.3%	22.4%	3.6%	-3.5%	1.0%	2.1%	0.8%	-1.9%
Cork IT	-4.0%	9.4%	1.4%	3.2%	1.6%	3.9%	1.8%	1.9%
Postgraduate	2.4%	71.8%	-35.4%	28.2%	13.9%	14.6%	11.0%	-9.8%
Undergraduate	-4.3%	6.5%	4.2%	2.0%	0.8%	3.2%	1.1%	2.9%
Dublin City University	4.4%	4.8%	1.4%	1.0%	4.0%	1.2%	0.3%	16.1%
Postgraduate	4.4%	12.5%	-5.6%	-13.0%	-0.7%	-1.9%	-5.9%	-1.7%
Undergraduate	4.4%	1.6%	4.6%	6.9%	5.6%	2.2%	2.2%	21.1%
Dublin Institute of Technology	2.2%	13.1%	0.5%	4.8%	1.5%	7.3%	1.7%	4.2%
Postgraduate	-10.1%	46.1%	-1.0%	2.6%	-3.1%	11.9%	4.9%	-0.5%
Undergraduate	4.2%	8.6%	0.8%	5.2%	2.3%	6.5%	1.1%	5.1%
Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology	11.5%	15.8%	1.1%	2.7%	-0.1%	-0.8%	-1.2%	2.2%
Postgraduate	57.1%	-3.0%	-10.0%	-38.9%	13.6%	22.0%	-0.8%	66.9%
Undergraduate	8.5%	17.6%	1.9%	5.6%	-0.7%	-1.9%	-1.2%	-1.6%
Dundalk IT	3.6%	7.8%	2.7%	-2.5%	2.1%	-0.6%	3.1%	4.5%
Postgraduate	3.9%	-3.1%	5.8%	4.9%	-19.2%	-15.8%	40.2%	4.3%
Undergraduate	3.6%	8.3%	2.5%	-2.8%	3.0%	-0.1%	2.2%	4.5%
Galway-Mayo IT	-2.2%	10.5%	1.7%	-2.2%	-5.0%	-3.6%	5.0%	3.6%
Postgraduate	-6.3%	31.7%	22.6%	-28.6%	31.7%	-26.6%	20.7%	37.9%
Undergraduate	-2.1%	10.1%	1.2%	-1.5%	-5.7%	-3.0%	4.7%	2.8%
IT Blanchardstown	1.6%	24.3%	16.3%	16.8%	9.4%	4.2%	-0.6%	0.0%
Postgraduate	-20.3%	31.4%	-29.9%	-36.2%	203.3%	56.0%	-9.2%	-17.8%
Undergraduate	2.4%	24.1%	17.8%	17.8%	7.4%	2.7%	-0.3%	0.8%
IT Carlow	27.0%	2.0%	13.8%	3.7%	6.3%	18.0%	-1.9%	9.6%
Postgraduate	44.1%	136.7%	44.8%	-16.7%	36.4%	128.3%	23.6%	15.0%
Undergraduate	26.8%	0.4%	12.9%	4.4%	5.5%	14.0%	-3.7%	9.1%
IT Sligo	-15.8%	7.5%	7.0%	0.3%	-5.1%	-4.1%	0.3%	-3.9%
Postgraduate	-80.9%	72.7%	40.0%	-18.0%	-13.8%	-2.1%	-13.0%	-8.8%
Undergraduate	-11.4%	6.6%	6.2%	0.9%	-4.9%	-4.2%	0.6%	-3.8%
IT Tallaght	6.7%	10.2%	6.0%	-2.4%	7.8%	8.5%	7.7%	-1.3%
Postgraduate	-66.0%	10.5%	-31.8%	-43.1%	3.7%	122.4%	57.1%	-32.7%
Undergraduate	21.5%	10.1%	8.1%	-1.0%	7.8%	6.2%	5.6%	0.7%
IT Tralee	9.8%	8.1%	5.2%	2.7%	0.4%	-2.7%	6.6%	-3.7%
Postgraduate	22.4%	-38.2%	-14.8%	27.5%	-19.3%	26.8%	17.8%	26.4%
Undergraduate	9.2%	10.7%	5.8%	2.1%	1.0%	-3.4%	6.3%	-4.8%
Letterkenny IT	32.4%	10.5%	-2.2%	-5.9%	12.9%	2.9%	5.8%	6.5%
Postgraduate	78.0%	116.4%	-13.9%	4.4%	4.2%	41.9%	-10.5%	40.4%
Undergraduate	31.5%	7.7%	-1.6%	-6.3%	13.4%	1.1%	6.9%	4.6%
Limerick IT	15.8%	20.9%	3.9%	12.0%	1.1%	5.2%	1.7%	0.4%
Postgraduate	12.3%	52.1%	51.4%	-0.6%	19.8%	47.5%	-6.4%	-8.7%
Undergraduate	15.9%	20.3%	2.8%	12.4%	0.6%	3.7%	2.2%	0.8%
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick	2.3%	1.2%	-1.0%	-2.2%	2.8%	1.5%	2.9%	16.0%
Postgraduate	1.4%	-10.4%	-8.2%	-4.7%	2.0%	4.8%	16.3%	4.0%
Undergraduate	2.5%	3.9%	0.4%	-1.7%	2.9%	0.9%	0.4%	18.5%
Mater Dei Institute, Clonliffe Road, Dublin 3.	45.9%	8.0%	0.1%	-9.8%	-3.4%	-8.2%	-4.1%	-28.5%
Postgraduate	20.6%	35.5%	31.1%	6.7%	-12.5%	-12.7%	-3.6%	8.5%
Undergraduate	49.9%	4.5%	-5.0%	-13.5%	-0.8%	-7.1%	-4.2%	-37.3%
National College of Art and Design	9.4%	12.5%	-2.5%	1.5%	-0.6%	6.0%	7.1%	5.0%
Postgraduate	-4.5%	50.8%	-11.1%	16.6%	-4.6%	-9.0%	-13.5%	3.4%
Undergraduate	11.7%	7.2%	-0.8%	-1.1%	0.2%	8.9%	10.4%	5.2%
National University of Ireland, Galway	5.1%	3.7%	1.1%	0.5%	1.0%	-1.2%	1.4%	3.7%
Postgraduate	5.8%	7.7%	-4.7%	-2.9%	-3.0%	1.0%	1.3%	6.0%
Undergraduate	4.9%	2.6%	2.9%	1.4%	2.0%	-1.8%	1.4%	3.1%
National University of Ireland, Maynooth	11.9%	8.4%	5.4%	17.9%	-2.6%	2.9%	4.7%	5.9%
Postgraduate	24.4%	16.6%	1.1%	12.1%	-6.9%	1.9%	-0.6%	1.0%
Undergraduate	8.9%	6.1%	6.6%	19.6%	-1.5%	3.2%	6.1%	7.0%
Royal College of Surgeons	-7.2%	14.9%	14.3%	4.3%	-3.9%	-0.5%	11.7%	-7.2%
Postgraduate	19.8%	-5.9%	34.6%	-17.5%	-1.4%	-9.9%	48.4%	-15.6%
Undergraduate	-19.2%	28.5%	4.5%	17.8%	-4.9%	3.7%	-2.7%	-2.3%
St. Angela's College of Home Economics, Sligo	19.8%	-5.3%	0.4%	9.2%	16.1%	8.7%	11.3%	-2.8%
Postgraduate	10.5%	30.0%	-19.1%	-10.5%	82.4%	13.8%	16.4%	-19.1%
Undergraduate	23.9%	-19.1%	12.6%	18.1%	-6.4%	5.4%	7.6%	9.9%
St. Patrick's College Drumcondra	9.3%	-3.6%	-2.8%	-2.3%	-5.3%	3.0%	-3.7%	-8.9%
Postgraduate	27.1%	-10.2%	-12.1%	-6.3%	-22.0%	4.2%	-7.3%	-1.1%
Undergraduate	1.8%	-0.2%	1.5%	-0.6%	1.2%	2.7%	-2.6%	-11.2%
Tipperary Institute	-1.4%	0.6%	41.1%	-100.0%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Postgraduate	N/A	-100.0%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Undergraduate	-1.5%	0.7%	41.1%	-100.0%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Trinity College Dublin	3.5%	4.4%	0.6%	0.7%	-3.2%	-1.0%	1.9%	1.9%
Postgraduate	5.0%	4.9%	-4.8%	0.0%	-6.0%	-4.8%	2.1%	5.9%
Undergraduate	2.8%	4.2%	3.0%	0.9%	-2.0%	0.5%	1.8%	0.4%
University College Cork	3.3%	3.7%	1.2%	5.1%	2.4%	2.2%	0.6%	2.5%
Postgraduate	18.3%	7.1%	-2.0%	1.4%	4.5%	2.6%	3.4%	2.4%
Undergraduate	-0.3%	2.7%	2.2%	6.1%	1.8%	2.1%	-0.2%	2.5%
University College Dublin	3.2%	5.1%	-0.2%	-0.4%	1.8%	2.7%	0.9%	3.4%
Postgraduate	6.5%	16.5%	0.1%	2.8%	3.9%	1.3%	-1.2%	3.0%
Undergraduate	2.1%	1.0%	-0.4%	-1.7%	0.9%	3.4%	1.8%	3.6%
University of Limerick	4.3%	2.7%	3.0%	0.1%	5.9%	4.6%	-1.5%	8.7%
Postgraduate	0.5%	4.9%	3.0%	0.0%	16.0%	10.9%	-7.2%	1.1%
Undergraduate	5.3%	2.1%	3.0%	0.1%	3.3%	2.8%	0.2%	10.9%
Waterford IT	5.5%	-1.4%	4.5%	-2.0%	3.5%	-1.3%	-2.7%	-2.4%
Postgraduate	18.1%	-10.0%	-6.6%	2.4%	14.6%	-6.5%	-8.8%	7.6%
Undergraduate	4.0%	-0.3%	5.8%	-2.5%	2.3%	-0.6%	-2.0%	-3.5%
Total	3.9%	6.7%	2.5%	1.6%	1.5%	2.4%	1.6%	3.5%

Question No. 213 taken with Question No. 206.