5,156 third level college offers will be issued by the CAO today.
The offers will be made to what are known as Round Zero applicants who have undertaken post Leaving Cert Courses.
Successful applicants will be notified by email or text.
Careers columnist with the Irish Times, Brian Mooney, says the offers today are specifically for students who took further education to improve their chances of accessing third level college:
"The standard round which is offered every single year at the beginning of August, to mainly further education students who may not have got the points last year or may never have been sure whether the area they were interested in was in fact for them. They are now receiving an offer from colleges to the CAO on the basis of places that are put aside specifically as a proportion of all the places offered for students who have done a one year further education program."
