Tell me about Griffith
A fee-paying college with a sterling reputation and more than 7,000 students in campuses in Dublin, Cork and Limerick. It is Ireland's largest private third-
level institution.
Why change to Griffith?
– The college offers more than 65 academically challenging programmes with an industry focus, work placements and good student support.
– Griffith offers a very diverse range of courses, including law; business; accounting and finance; design; hospitality management; computer science; applied digital media; journalism and media; music and drama; training and education.
– Lecturers tend to be actively working and engaged with their chosen field and are impressive teachers.
Why not change to Griffith?
– The social scene is strong but there's less choice of clubs and societies than in some of the larger colleges.
– Private colleges cost more as you have to shell out for fees, although the college points out that the rising registration charge in publicly-funded third-levels is catching up on their charges.
Changes since February?
A new stream of cloud computing on BSC (Hons) in Computing Science. It has HEA funding, lowering the cost to just €2,500, which is the same as the registration charge for this year and less than the charge for 2014, for the first two years of the course.
What's the advice from Griffith?
There are good job prospects in the IT and gaming sectors: take a look at the computing courses in the college.
Most popular CAO courses in 2012?
Law and journalism
Least popular course 2012?
Architecture, though there has been an increase in numbers on the BA (Hons) in Interior Architecture course.
Griffith in three words:
Established, cutting-edge, successful
