Editing Trinity College Dublin (section)

===Undergraduate===
[[File:Columbia 001.jpg|thumb|[[Columbia University]], which offers a dual BA]]
Most undergraduate courses require four years of study. First-year students at the undergraduate level are called Junior Freshmen; second-years, Senior Freshmen; third-years, Junior Sophisters; and fourth-years, Senior Sophisters.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} Trinity's [[Bachelor's degree|undergraduate]] admissions are competitive,<ref>{{cite web|title=Entry Requirements for International Students – Study – Trinity College Dublin|url=https://www.tcd.ie/study/international/how-to-apply/entry-requirements.php|access-date=8 March 2020|archive-date=1 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101134501/https://www.tcd.ie/study/international/how-to-apply/entry-requirements.php|url-status=live}}</ref> with an average acceptance rate of 17%.<ref>{{cite web|date=2016-03-09|title=Increase in CAO Applications for Trinity Courses for 2016|url=https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/increase-in-cao-applications-for-trinity-courses-for-2016/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124210818/https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/increase-in-cao-applications-for-trinity-courses-for-2016/|archive-date=24 November 2020|access-date=2021-05-26|website=Trinity College Dublin}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN Profile 2016/2017|url=https://hea.ie/assets/uploads/2017/04/TCD-Profile-2016.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191018215149/https://hea.ie/assets/uploads/2017/04/TCD-Profile-2016.pdf|archive-date=18 October 2019|access-date=2021-05-26|website=HEA}}</ref> 

After a 2017 proposal by the SU Equality Committee, the Trinity College Board approved a three-year process changing the titles of first and second years to Junior and Senior Fresh.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Meehan|first1=Sarah|title=Undergraduate name "Freshman" to change to gender-neutral "Fresh"|url=http://trinitynews.ie/undergraduate-name-freshman-to-change-to-gender-neutral-fresh/|access-date=28 November 2017|publisher=Trinity News|date=28 November 2017|archive-date=28 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171128135119/http://trinitynews.ie/undergraduate-name-freshman-to-change-to-gender-neutral-fresh/|url-status=live}}</ref> 

Students must take the exams during [[Michaelmas term]] and during [[Trinity term]] of each year, and those who pass the exams can enter the next year. Students who score at least 70% on the exams will receive a first-class honours degree, 60–69% an upper second-class honours degree, 50–59% a lower second-class honours degree, and 40–49% a third-class honours degree.<ref>{{cite news|last=Faller|first=Grainne|title=How to make the grade|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/how-to-make-the-grade-1.1642295|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-26|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|language=en|archive-date=3 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803154620/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/how-to-make-the-grade-1.1642295}}</ref>

Most non-professional courses take a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. As a matter of tradition, bachelor's degree graduates are eligible, after seven years from matriculation and without additional study, to purchase for a fee an upgrade of their bachelor's degree to a [[Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin)|Master of Arts]].{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

Degree titles vary according to the subject of study. The [[Trinity College Dublin Law School|Law School]] awards the [[LL.B.]], the LL.B. (ling. franc.) and the LL.B. (ling. germ.). Other degrees include the BAI (engineering) and BBS (business studies). The BSc degree is not in wide use although it is awarded by the School of Nursing and Midwifery<!-- Removed Pharmacy from this list, new course awards a BPharm and MPharm degree -->; most science and computer science students are awarded a BA.<!-- Most, there is a BSc in Computer Science evening course -->{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

From 2018, Trinity will be offering a dual BA programme with [[Columbia University]] in New York City. Students of history, English, European studies or Middle Eastern and European languages and culture spend their first two years at Trinity and their last two years at Columbia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://gs.columbia.edu/tcd/dual-ba-program|title=Dual BA Program – Trinity College Dublin|website=gs.columbia.edu|access-date=10 December 2017|archive-date=11 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171211183902/http://gs.columbia.edu/tcd/dual-ba-program|url-status=live}}</ref>