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English-speaking, EU, and strong in tech, pharma and financial services.
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The Critical Skills Employment Permit is genuinely graduate-friendly, with a reduced salary threshold for people who qualified in the last 12 months, and it carries fast family reunification and a 2-year job offer requirement.
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Degrees that travel best
17 of 23 fields rated 4 or 5
- 5 EngineeringOpen door · shortage or priority list
- 5 Finance & EconomicsOpen door · shortage or priority list
- 5 Computer Science & ITOpen door · shortage or priority list
- 5 Data Science & StatisticsOpen door · shortage or priority list
- 5 Agricultural ScienceOpen door · shortage or priority list
- 5 Quantity SurveyingRecognised, paperwork only · shortage or priority list
- 5 MedicineRecognised, paperwork only · shortage or priority list
- 5 PhysiotherapyRecognised, paperwork only · shortage or priority list
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- 5 Occupational TherapyRecognised, paperwork only · shortage or priority list
- 5 Chartered AccountancyRecognised, paperwork only · shortage or priority list
- 5 Actuarial ScienceRecognised, paperwork only · shortage or priority list
- 4 Natural SciencesOpen door
- 4 ArchitectureExams or bridging · shortage or priority list
- 4 NursingExams or bridging · shortage or priority list
- 4 PharmacyExams or bridging · shortage or priority list
- 4 PsychologyExams or bridging · shortage or priority list
- 4 Social WorkExams or bridging · shortage or priority list
- 3 Business ManagementOpen door
- 3 Humanities (BA)Open door
- 3 DentistryExams or bridging
- 3 Veterinary ScienceExams or bridging
- 3 TeachingExams or bridging
- 3 LawMajor requalification
Good to know
- Working language
- English.
- For South African passport holders
- South Africa is a visa-required country for Ireland, including short stays, and there is a dedicated South Africa visa desk.
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SA is NOT on the 11-country Working Holiday Authorisation list. Naturalisation needs 5 years' reckonable residence in the last 9; student Stamp 2 time does not count.
- Shortage list
- Critical Skills Occupations List (CSOL) and the Ineligible List of Occupations (IOL)
The CSOL covers highly skilled roles in short supply: ICT and telecoms, engineering (civil, mechanical, electrical, electronics, chemical), sciences, medicine, nursing and midwifery, therapies, finance and business.More
The IOL lists occupations closed to all employment permits.
- Studying there instead
- Non-EU students pay full, uncapped fees set individually by each institution, with no government subsidy.
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Exact figures must be checked on the university's own fee page; official aggregate ranges could not be confirmed here. Post-study work is the Stamp 1G programme.
General information about published rules, not immigration advice; for an individual application use a licensed adviser in Ireland. Researched 2026-10-07.