Cork Institute of Technology (CIT), formerly the Regional Technical College, Cork, is an Institute of Technology in Ireland, located in Cork, Ireland opened in 1973. The institute has 17,000 students (both part-time and full-time) in art, business, engineering, music, drama and science disciplines. The popular Faculties are Engineering and Science, and Business and Humanities.
The constituent colleges are the CIT Crawford College of Art and Design, the CIT Cork School of Music and the National Maritime College of Ireland.CIT holds a partnership with the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (h_da), Germany. CIT's BA in Multimedia offers a joint accreditation from CIT and h_da. CIT offer a number of degree courses in conjunction with University College Cork, including their BSc in Architecture and BSc in Biomedical Science. The CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory runs a programme in partnership with the Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, California. CIT has also established various industrial alliances, particularly with the EMC Corporation and VMware, both of which have a business presence in Cork. The college also maintains close ties with to Cisco Systems and the Cisco Networking Academy. CIT is itself both an official VMware and Cisco academy, as well as a Microsoft, Novell and ITIL academy.
Location & Facilities
The main campus of some eighty acres is situated in Bishops town in the western suburbs of Cork city. It is comprehensively equipped with theatres, lecture rooms, laboratories, drawing studios, a library, computer suites, open access computing centre and research units. CIT's main campus has won numerous awards for its architectural design and aesthetics.No on-campus accommodation facility. There are three main types of outside accommodation; every effort is made to facilitate students seeking accommodation as:
- Lodgings/Self Catering Lodgings - Living in a family home within walking distance of the college, may be with self cooking arrangements.
- Shared Houses/Flats - Where a student lives in rented houses/rooms
- Student Apartments/Hostels- Renting student apartments in close proximity to the Institute
Recreational facilities for students include a champion-standard running track, tennis courts, all weather pitch, an excellently appointed gymnasium and grass playing pitches. A new heated indoor swimming pool is located immediately adjacent to the Institute