The Higher Education Authority has denied that this is the case.
Bound to know some people in these places.
A recent report by the Irish Times has shown that grades at Ireland’s seven universities have been consistently rising over the past decade.
The amount of students that have received first-class (1.1) and upper second-class (2.1) degrees has risen from 59% in the period of 2009-2011 to 64% in 2015-2017.
The body that’s responsible for monitoring quality in third-level institutions, Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI), has said that grade inflation appears to be a symptom of a variety of factors and that some colleges are coming under increasing pressure to award more top-scoring degrees.
In terms of the colleges where students are most likely to secure first-class or upper second-class degrees, Dublin City University ranks first with a 72% rate. This is followed by UCD (71%), University College Cork (69%), Maynooth University (63%), NUI Galway (59%) and University of Limerick (53%).
Statistics for Trinity College are harder to obtain because they’ve changed the way they categorise second-class honour degrees.
This being said, based on first- class honours, students are most likely to get a first in Trinity (20%) than in any other university.
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