Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 7 October 2025
722. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of students from the Twenty-six Counties who applied to universities and colleges in the North of Ireland, by county, per year between 2020 and 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53054/25]
View answerMy Department does not record data on the number of students from Ireland who have applied to universities and colleges in the north of Ireland.
However, my officials have accessed publicly available data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency in the UK. (www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students) The table below shows the number of students from Ireland who are studying in Northern Ireland from 2020 until 2024.
This data includes both fulltime and part-time students enrolled in Postgraduate research and Postgraduate taught degrees as well as all undergraduate degrees.
|
Academic Year |
Number of Students |
|
2020-2021 |
2170 |
|
2021-2022 |
2290 |
|
2022-2023 |
2765 |
|
2023-2024 |
3355 |
The data for the academic years 2024-25 and 2025-26 are not yet available.
