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Third Level Admissions

Summary

The Minister provided a link to HEA gender-disaggregated undergraduate and postgraduate enrolment data for 2021–2025, noting rounding and incomplete 2025–2026 figures.

4186. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of students enrolled in higher education at undergraduate level and at postgraduate level respectively, broken down by gender, in each of the academic years 2021-2022, 2022-2023, 2023-2024, 2024-2025 and 2025-2026, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55710/26]

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James Lawless Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Fianna Fáil

The data requested by the Deputy is detailed at the following link. This data was sourced from the HEA website and is rounded to the nearest 5 (or multiple of 5) in line with the HEA data protection policy. The completed data for 2025/2026 academic year is not yet available.

Data Gender stats July 2026

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