National College of Art and Design (NCAD)

Irish Leaving Certificate equivalent (secondary-school qualification from home country), plus mandatory portfolio review ranked against the CAO list

NCAD's own international-undergraduate page states international applicants need 'a High School Qualification from their home country which is the equivalent to the Irish School Leaving Certificate,' with no SAT, ACT, or GPA minimum referenced anywhere on the page -- a genuine honest gap, not a failed search, and the page explicitly does not defer to UCD Global's general international entry requirements despite both being Dublin institutions. Admission runs on a CAO-ranked portfolio score for most studio courses (mandatory for Common Entry, code AD101, per NCAD's own Common-or-Direct-Entry guidance page), a genuinely different mechanism from the other specialist art-school precedent (Glasgow School of Art) since NCAD is a public Irish state college integrated into the CAO system rather than a free-standing UK institution. Tuition not confirmed to a specific figure -- left unset.