Question..

misslt

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Guys

How do I know if a college is a private college or not, ie if tuition fees apply?

I've gathered DCU is but how do I know about the rest? So confused

Cheers

H2G2

The connection between private and fees is not correct. There are several courses in DCU and other state ‘owned’ education institutions that require fees to be paid. Likewise there are several privately owned education institutions in which you can attend courses and have fees paid by the government and other public sources.

What question are you actually asking about… fees or public / private status?

This Wikipedia list looks accurate, if you want a public / private list.

carlowboy

The answer above is better than mine was

misslt

carlowboy wrote: »

DCU, Trinity, UCD, Maynooth, NUIG, UL, UCC and all the ITs are public, ie "no fees". The likes of Griffith College and Dublin Business School have fees

Cheers guys.

Is DCU no fees? My understanding from the site is that is it is fees..?

Basically I'm currently studying in the North and looking to go to college in the South so it'll be harder for me to get student finance and stuff, hence the questions.

Thanks for your help!

irish_boy90

...I'm doing CA and I'm not paying
Never heard there were courses in DCU you had to pay for
I think one person said to me they wanted to do media studies and said they didn't think they could afford it. didn't really get what they ment noww i think i do.

misslt

Here it lists the fees though

http://www.dcu.ie/finance/fees/undergraduate_fees.shtml

Should I just get in contact with them?

H2G2

irish_boy90 wrote: »

...I'm doing CA and I'm not paying... Never heard there were courses in DCU you had to pay for

There are many courses you have to pay fees for. It just depends on the course, your status, etc. In your case (CA) you probably aren't paying as its your first degree and you are an EU citizen. If you weren’t EU or it wasn’t first u’grad then you would pay full fees.
For example, all DCU postgrad degrees (MSc and PhD) have fees. Some MSc’s get fees paid by EU/HEA grants, but some don’t. Almost all PhD students have to pay fees, but the majority get grants to cover fees & stipend.

carlowboy wrote:

DCU, Trinity, UCD, Maynooth, NUIG, UL, UCC and all the ITs are public, ie "no fees". The likes of Griffith College and Dublin Business School have fees

That’s too simplistic a view. Its possible to attend some private colleges (like Griffith) and get fees paid. Public does not mean "no fees".

carlowboy

H2G2 wrote: »

That’s too simplistic a view. Its possible to attend some private colleges (like Griffith) and get fees paid. Public does not mean "no fees".

Hence the edited post :rolleyes:

Ace2007

yea basically as said above, for example carlowboy - if you dropped out of FM now - and decided to start first year sports management - then you would have to pay 1/2 years full fees ( i don't actually know year your in - hence the 1/2)

carlowboy

Ace2007 wrote: »

yea basically as said above, for example carlowboy - if you dropped out of FM now - and decided to start first year sports management - then you would have to pay 1/2 years full fees ( i don't actually know year your in - hence the 1/2)

Always wondered about DCU, if you fail a few modules and have to repeat the year in them, do you have to pay a full year's fees or do you pay per module? In UCD you pay per module and in TCD you pay for the whole year for example.

Ace2007

ok so if you fail one module you have the option of just doing the exam and pay for that - if u want to go to class - its like a few hundred quid - if u fail every subject i think its the full wack - which is around 5k...

but for simplicity suppose that you did one year in ucd doin commerce and then left that and started first year fm - then one would have to pay first year fees - which is ~ 5K - but this is just for the first year - every other year is paid for by the government..

monument

Tuition fees were scraped, but not totally so (as mentioned above, not for all courses/colleges). And also registration fees are still payable and are set to increase.

Catuohy

Is it not like if it's your first time attending college you don't pay fee's!
then if it's your second like you dropped out of another college etc or going back to do another degree you have to pay fees?!

Daysha

Catuohy wrote: »

Is it not like if it's your first time attending college you don't pay fee's!
then if it's your second like you dropped out of another college etc or going back to do another degree you have to pay fees?!

Only if you start back in 1st year in your new course.

Say for example you're just finished 1st year Arts in UCD but you want to transfer down to UCC and do Arts there instead, there's a good possibility you'll get an exemption from doing 1st year again and you just join the class in 2nd year. If that's the case, you don't pay fees.

But that only works when the two courses are pretty similar. I mean, you're not going to get an exemption from 1st year Music if you've just done a year of Engineering!