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Run by the Department of English language and Literature in MIC since 2002, this highly-successful and popular one-year taught Master of Arts programme in Modern English Literature has graduated over 160 students and 97% of these students have graduated with an honours MA degree.

There are more reasons than ever before to choose Primary Teaching as your number one CAO choice according to Professor Eugene Wall, President of MIC, who was speaking on the Department of Education’s decision to allocate more places across Ireland’s primary teaching programmes. As a result, MIC will be offering an additional 30 places across their much-in-demand primary teaching programmes, thereby making a career in primary teaching more accessible and attainable than ever before.

Learn about the Department of Music at MIC, which offers music as an arts subject for the BA in Liberal Arts and music electives for the B Ed in Primary Teaching. It also supervises graduate students at MA and PhD level by research in Musicology and Music Education, and also offers a taught MA in Music Education in association with the Department of Arts Education and Physical Education.

Visit this page to learn how Music can be taken as part of the MIC Arts Degree as a joint honours combination. The music programme at MIC explores the history and language of music and is designed to enable students to develop technical, analytical, critical, performing, aural and creative skills.

The Mary Immaculate College (MIC) Thurles Summer School returns this June with a two-day on-campus event featuring leading national and international educationalists. Held on Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 June, the MIC Thurles Summer School will explore the 1998 Education Act, the progress made under it over a quarter of a century, and the journey yet to be travelled in supporting the principles of the Act.

The Gender Identity & Expression Equality Champion Network represents a voluntary community of individuals working in relevant roles within their HEI to establish gender equality. MIC is a part of this voluntary network.

The almost 130% increase in students opting to pursue Leaving Certificate Mathematics at Higher Level since 2011 is positive but is also putting more pressure on teachers and may actually be causing standards in mathematics to decline, according to researchers at Mary Immaculate College (MIC), University College Cork (UCC) and University of Limerick (UL). The authors of Bonus Territory: The Shifting Landscape of Higher Level Senior Cycle Mathematics (2010-2024), Páraic Treacy, School of Education (Post-Primary) at MIC; Mark Prendergast (School of Education, UCC) and Niamh O’Meara (EPI•STEM, School of Education, UL), examined the participation landscape from 2010 to 2024—taking into account the perspectives of math teachers, students and policymakers.

Mary Immaculate College’s (MIC) Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Interculturalism (EDII) Team attended the National Diversity & Inclusion Awards on Friday, 6 February, with Professor Lorraine McIlrath, Director of EDII at MIC, named winner of the Diversity & Inclusion Leader/Emerging Leader Award.

Mary Immaculate College (MIC) has welcomed the significant funding made available to fourteen first year trainees on MIC’s highly sought-after three-year full-time Professional Doctorate in Educational and Child Psychology (DECPsy). Arising from the workforce planning needs of both the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) and the Health Service Executive (HSE), the new funding arrangements were highlighted at the inaugural Professional Doctorate in Educational and Child Psychology Stakeholder Advisory Committee (SAC) meeting held at MIC on Monday (23 October).  The Committee is an advisory body to the DECPsy programme with membership including senior representatives from the programmes funding partners, NEPS and the HSE.