Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 19 January 2023
280. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the current number of dieticians who are due to graduate from third level education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2495/23]
View answerThe information requested by the Deputy is not yet available. The following tables show the enrolments on CORU approved programmes for 2021/2022 academic year and the number of graduates from 2018 to 2021. This data was sourced from the Student Records System (SRS) from the Higher Education Authority and is the most up to date information available.
Table 1 - Enrolments (rounded to nearest 5) by course and year of study in the academic year 2021-22
|
HEI |
Course Name |
Year 1 |
Year 2 |
Year 3 |
Year 4 |
|
Technological University Dublin |
Bachelor of Science (Hons) Human Nutrition and Dietetics |
20 |
20 |
20 |
20 |
|
Trinity College Dublin |
Human Nutrition and Dietetics (Joint Degree) |
25 |
20 |
20 |
20 |
|
University College Cork |
MSc (Human Nutrition and Dietetics) |
10 |
10 |
||
|
University College Dublin |
MSc Clinic NutrandDiet (Jan) FT |
25 |
20 |
||
|
University of Limerick |
Human Nutrition and Dietetics (masters) |
15 |
15 |
||
|
Total |
95 |
85 |
40 |
40 |
Table 2 - Graduates by year
|
HEI |
Course Name |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
|
Technological University Dublin |
Bachelor of Science (Hons) Human Nutrition and Dietetics |
25 |
20 |
25 |
30 |
|
Trinity College Dublin |
Human Nutrition and Dietetics (Joint Degree) |
25 |
20 |
25 |
25 |
|
University College Dublin |
MSc Clinic NutrandDiet (Jan) FT |
15 |
20 |
20 |
25 |
|
University of Limerick |
Human Nutrition and Dietetics |
10 |
15 |
||
|
Total |
65 |
60 |
80 |
95 |
