Entrance Scholarships recognise and celebrate students' commitment to excellence and their desire to succeed and reach their full potential in their chosen degree programme.  Professor John O'Halloran, President of UCC, in his Welcome Address said 'UCC will nurture your talent and inspire you through our mission of learning, teaching and research so that you can lead the way to find new solutions to the most significant, most important and most urgent objectives of humanity'.  

Among the Entrance Scholarships were the Kavanagh Celtic Civilisation Scholarships awarded to the 2 highest achieving students who chose to study Celtic Civilisation as part of their BA Arts programme, while the Mary Ryan Scholarships were offered to the 7 highest achieving students who registered to study at least two foreign languages.