Whatever your plans and talents, CIT has a course to study for you. We offer the full range of Higher Education qualifications, including Bachelor Degrees and Honours Bachelor Degrees, as well as Masters and PhD degrees. There is a flexible “ladder” system in place which in many cases allows you to progress from one award to the next.

For those returning to education from employment or for those with other commitments, CIT has a varied part-time and evening programme, one of the largest at third level in the country.

Cork Institute of Technology is the largest Institute outside Dublin. It has four principal campuses:

Bishopstown Campus - Bishopstown, Cork CIT Crawford College of Art & Design (CIT CCCAD)
- Cork City

CIT Cork School of Music (CIT CSM) - Cork City

National Maritime College of Ireland (NMCI) – Ringaskiddy, Co. Cork

The main campus of some eighty acres is situated in the western suburbs of Cork city.
It is comprehensively equipped with lecture rooms, laboratories, theatres, drawing studios, library, computer suites, open-access computing centre and research units. CIT has a new student centre, including common room, café, shops, students union, clubs and societies. Recreational facilities for students include a championship-standard running track, tennis courts, allweather pitch, an excellently appointed gymnasium, and
grass playing pitches. A heated indoor public swimming pool and fitness centre (Leisureworld) is located alongside
the Institute. 

The student population comprises approximately 6,200 fulltime students, 7,600 part-time students and 3,000 catering and engineering craft students. Courses are offered in Engineering, Science, Business, Humanities, Art and Music at Certificate, Degree and Honours Degree level.  There is also an extensive range of postgraduate research and taught programmes at Masters and Doctoral level.  The third-level courses offered by CIT are nationally and internationally recognised through national bodies such as the Higher Education and Training Awards Council (HETAC) and the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland. The Institute has always sought the widest possible recognition for its courses and has established relationships with a wide variety of professional bodies for that purpose. For example, CIT’s engineering courses are accredited by Engineers Ireland and consequently have world-wide recognition. Our business courses gain exemption and recognition from a variety of accounting, marketing and management professional bodies.

Effective contact with industry has been a key objective of the Institute since its inception. The benefits of the links which have been established with industry in the region are reflected in the high levels of student placement and in the R & D contracts won by the Institute. 

Cork Institute of Technology offers students an opportunity to pursue courses of proven merit in a progressive and caring environment where students’ needs are treated as paramount. 

For further information, visit our website: http://www.cit.ie