The main aim of the EUROSTUDENT project is to collate comparable data from 30 countries on the social dimension of European higher education. It focuses on the socio-economic background and on the living conditions of students. It also investigates other interesting aspects of student life such as international mobility and employment during term-time. The core project provides reliable and insightful cross-country comparisons (disseminated through www.eurostudent.eu) but this report provides results from over 20,000 students attending higher education institutions in Ireland. The survey is co-ordinated in Europe by the German Federal Ministry of Education and marks the eighth such survey of its kind. Ireland is one of 30 countries which participated in the Eurostudent VIII survey, and this report continues the initiative of previous Eurostudent reports through extensively analysing the characteristics of students studying in Ireland by examining the demographic profile of the student population, the courses they are undertaking, their income and expenditure, their accommodation and employment, the route they took into higher education and the extent to which they study abroad as part of their programme. The valid survey-responses were weighted to reflect the known population parameters of inter-locked gender, age, qualification, status (full/part-time) and by type of institution.

Each institution participated by issuing an email (or series of emails) to each qualifying student throughout the data collection campaign (April-June 2022). All students responded through an online survey portal.

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based