The Cork Institute of Technology have this week applied for designation as a university. The Governing Body of CIT unanimously authorised the application in accordance with Section 9 of the Universities Act 1997.

The President of CIT, Dr Brendan Murphy, yesterday, Wednesday, March 12, delivered a letter to the Minister of Education and Science outlining CIT's wish to be designated as a university under Section 9 of the Universities Act 1997.

The application is centred around CIT's belief that it is widely considered to be a university-level institute and therefore wishes to be designated as a university. The application stresses that the Institute does not wish to change its educational mission or ethos, but does hope to be designated as a technological university which is student-centred, driven by excellence in teaching, learning and research and is industry/career focused.

CIT currently has 17,000 registrations and after DIT has the most extensive delegated authority to award PhDs. It is the largest Institute of Technology outside of Dublin and operates in four permanent locations, the main CIT campus in Bishopstown, CIT Crawford College of Art & Design, CIT Cork School of Music and the National Maritime College of Ireland at Ringaskiddy.

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