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About Bachelor Of Arts in National University of Ireland, Maynooth

The Maynooth Bachelor of Arts is our most popular degree with 36 subjects across 6 subject groups.

Arts at Maynooth challenges students to consider new perspectives and new ways of approaching problems and ideas. You will have the opportunity to gain a deep knowledge and understanding of your choice of subjects (choose up to 4 subjects from the 36 available in 1st year) while developing critical thinking, analysis and communication skills. Being adaptable and reflective are key requirements in today's workplace and by fully engaging with your Bachelor of Arts programme, you will best position yourself for graduate employment or graduate studies once you complete your BA degree. 

We offer progression options into specialised degrees at the end of first year, depending on the student's subjects and results. The possible transfer pathways are listed in the Course Structure tab. 

We have further enhanced opportunities to develop key skills through our Critical Skills, Electives and Experiential Learning options:

• Critical Skills: optional, 1st year only. 15 credit course, with a specific focus on developing skills such as effective communication, creative thinking and problem solving - skills that will benefit you in your learning and future employment.
• Elective Streams: optional, 2nd year only. 10 credit short course outside your main subjects which allows you to expand your university education and broaden your perspective. Compatible Electives will depend on the timetable for your choice of subjects in MH101.
• Erasmus or Study Abroad year after 2nd year: optional. Graduate with a BA International after four years.
• We are developing our Experiential Learning programme to include: Community Based Service Learning, Enquiry/Project Based Learning, Undergraduate Research and Community Engagement and Volunteering.
• If you would like help deciding on your options, the dedicated Programme Advisory Office are there to assist students in making decisions regarding the best combination of subjects to suit them.

As an Arts graduate you will have versatility on your side.

Over the course of your three or four year degree you gain valuable skills including the hugely important ability to think critically and analytically. Our Arts graduates emerge as flexible thinkers who are ready for the challenges of the modern workplace in the years following graduation. Apart from professions requiring specialist training such as engineering and science, most career options are wide open to Maynooth’s Arts graduates. With about 40% of graduate jobs open to any discipline (gradireland.com), the quality of your degree and your ability to communicate your experience is often far more important than the content of your subjects. Arts graduates find employment in:

• Human resources & training
• Finance
• Psychology
• Law
• Marketing & advertising
• Business
• Publishing & information
• Librarianship
• Teaching – primary & second level
• Social policy
• Leisure
• Travel & tourism
• Media & communications
• Translation
• Arts & culture
• Management consultancy
• Computing & IT
• Civil service
• Medicine (graduate entry programmes)
• Economics
• Public relations
• Political lobbying

Academic qualification equivalents

• Minimum 75% in the Higher Secondary School Certificate- Standard 12 awarded through the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) or the India Council for School Examinations (ICSE), or any equivalent Standard 12 All India Secondary School Certificate

English language requirements (one of the below):

• IELTS      :    6.5 over all components and a minimum of 6.00 in each band.
• TOEFL    :    92
• PTE         :    59

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