Central Applications Office
cao.ie
Visit cao.ie →The Central Applications Office (CAO) processes applications for undergraduate courses in Irish Higher Education Institutions. It handles applications for mature students, QQI FET applicants, advanced entry, and entry to medicine, and provides media and statistics. Admissions decisions are made by the institutions, which instruct the CAO to make offers to successful candidates.
At a glance
- Category
- Education & Training
- Subcategory
- Universities & Third Level
- CRO number
- 53983
- First observed in Common Crawl
- 2026 crawl 08
- Pages observed (2026 crawl 34)
- 146
- Hosts observed
- 3
- Detected technologies
- jquery
- Rank in Ireland
- #275 of 34,089
- Rank in Education & Training
- #19 of 2,095
Ranking over the past year
Where cao.ie placed each month, against every Irish website listed here or against the sites it is listed with. A site can hold its own visitors and still slip, if the sites around it grew faster.
Holding steady in Ireland, at 275th of 34,089 Irish websites.
- cao.ie
- universityvacancies.com 2,356th
- findacourse.ie 3,260th
- dhulaigh.ie 3,356th
Other universities & third level sites that describe a business like this one, ranked near cao.ie.
Holding steady in education & training, at 19th of 2,095 education & training websites.
- cao.ie
- universityvacancies.com 87th
- findacourse.ie 141st
- dhulaigh.ie 148th
Other universities & third level sites that describe a business like this one, ranked near cao.ie.
Holding steady in universities & third level, at 12th of 93 universities & third level websites.
- cao.ie
- universityvacancies.com 25th
Other universities & third level sites that describe a business like this one, ranked near cao.ie.
The ranking is recalculated for every month we hold, so a position reflects the site and its peers as they stood that month. How the ranking works.
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