Athlone RTC: BSc in applied chemistry; BSc in toxicology; Bachelor of Business Studies; tourism and hospitality management; BEng in software engineering; BA in accounting and finance. The college has a transfer arrangement with the Camborne School of Mines, Cornwall, England, and the University of Portsmouth, England, for graduates of the mineral engineering diploma.
Carlow RTC: BSc in industrial biology; BSc in software engineering; Bachelor of Technology in production technology; BBS in services marketing. There are formal transfer arrangements between Carlow RTC and Essex University, England, for the BSc in physical optoelectronics and the BSc in environmental and industrial chemistry.
Cork RTC: BA degrees in fine art and in applied social studies; BSc in biomedical science offered in conjunction with UCC; BSc in analytical chemistry with quality assurance; BSc in applied physics and instrumentation; BEng in structural engineering; bachelor of design in ceramics.
Dundalk RTC: it is possible to advance from any of the college's four business studies certificates through a diploma to a one-year add-on BBS. Other courses include: BSc in commercial computing; BSc in building surveying; BEng in product design.
Galway RTC: students who have completed the diploma in business studies must take some bridging exams to be eligible for the BBS programme; BSc in furniture technology; BSc in software development; BEng in digital and software engineering. A new add-on degree in computing in business applications is now on offer.
Letterkenny RTC: students who have completed any one of a number of business-related diplomas and certificates can apply for a degree in business studies. A new add-on degree option in applied computing is now on offer.
Limerick RTC: add-on degrees in graphics, fashion, ceramics, fine art (painting, print-making and sculpture), and design; BSc in information systems. Holders of some diplomas may be able to transfer to the college's BSc in chartered surveying (quantity surveying, valuation surveying, and building engineering and management).
Sligo RTC: BBS (marketing and accounting options); BSc in computing; BA in applied social care; holders of national diplomas in engineering, science or technology may apply for a BSc in quality assurance; bachelor of engineering; BSc in environmental science or environmental chemistry. Those with the college's national diploma in science (analytical chemistry, or pollution assessment and control) can apply for transfer to the final year of the BSc in applied biology, or applied chemistry in the University of Coventry, England.
Similarly, graduates of the national diploma in pharmaceutical science may transfer to the BSc in pharmaceutical science in Coventry.
There is a new add-on degree this year - a BSc in occupational safety and health. Two further one-year add-on degrees are expected to be on offer from September 1998 - BEng in product design and development, and a Bachelor of Arts in fine art.
Tallaght RTC: BBS with marketing and languages with options in French and German; two other business degrees with options in management and accounting; BSc in computing (information technology); manufacturing engineering; the follow-on options in science will be in applied chemistry and applied biology.
Tralee RTC: BBS in business studies in marketing or accounting; BA in information systems management; BSc in computing. There is a transfer arrangement with UL for students who pass the advanced certificate in business studies.
WIT: BA degrees in the following options: business and financial studies; recreation and leisure; applied social studies in social care; legal and business studies; applied languages. There are BSc degrees in chemistry and quality management, commercial software development and applied biology with quality management. Bachelor of technology in computer-aided manufacturing; new add-on BA in financial services on offer this year.
