Jen Cummins (Dublin South Central, Social Democrats)
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292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how many undergraduate courses are available at third level, in tabular form. [17886/25]

James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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The Higher Education Authority's Student Records System is my Department's primary source of statistics related to the higher education sector. The HEA can only provide the count of course names that were provided by the higher education institutions for the academic year 2023/24 as part of the student data returns. It is possible that some course are double counted due to the course changing name.

The number of undergraduate courses recorded on the HEA's student records system for 2023/24 is below.

Undergraduate courses include Access and Foundation courses, Undergraduate Certificates, Undergraduate Diplomas, Higher Certificates, Ordinary Degrees and Honours Degrees.

Jen Cummins (Dublin South Central, Social Democrats)
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293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how many postgraduate courses are available at third level, in tabular form. [17887/25]

James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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The Higher Education Authority's Student Record's system is my Departments primary source of statistics related to the higher education sector. The HEA can only provide the count of course names that were provided by the higher education institutions for the academic year 2023/24 as part of the student data returns.

It is possible that some courses are double counted due to the course changing name.

The number of postgraduate courses recorded on the HEA's student records system for 2023/24 is below.

Postgraduate courses include Higher Diplomas, Postgraduate Diplomas, Postgraduate Certificates, Research Masters programmes, Taught Masters programmes and PhD programmes.