Area of Work
GMIT delivers undergraduate and postgraduate courses at five campuses in the west of Ireland supported by numerous research centres and Innovation Hubs in the two counties. Dr Orla Flynn is head of the organisation, leading a regionally dispersed community of 700 staff and 7,000 students.
The institute offers over 100 CAO courses in Agriculture, Business, Computing & Science, Design & Creative Arts, Engineering, Furniture Design & Technology, Sport Science, Hotel & Tourism, Nursing & Social Care, and Outdoor Education, in addition to Springboard upskilling courses and postgraduate courses, many of which are delivered online. GMIT’s undergraduate courses have a strong practical element with accredited workplace components.
GMIT and its partners IT Sligo and Letterkenny IT (Connacht Ulster Alliance (CUA) are currently merging and will become Atlantic Technological University on 1 April 2022. The new organisation has a community of 22,000 students and 2,000 staff in eight locations across Galway, Mayo, Sligo, and Donegal, many becoming university towns for the first time.
