The Dublin Institute of Technology is the largest third level Institute in the Republic of Ireland. The Institute has developed a broad spectrum of postgraduate programmes in research at the masters and doctoral level and taught courses at the masters and postgraduate diploma level across its six faculties.

Graduates with a minimum 2.2 Irish honours degree or equivalent may apply for the Institute’s postgraduate courses. These courses are usually one year full time or two years part time.

The disciplines in which postgraduate opportunities arise include:

• Journalism
• Public Relations
• Pubic Affairs and Political Communication
• Digital Media Technologies
• Music Performance
• Professional Design Practice
• Legal Studies
• Criminology
• Child, Family and Community Studies
• Media Studies
• Business
• Marketing
• Advertising
• Strategic Management
• Accounting and Finance
• International Business
• Supply Chain Management
• Business and Entrepreneurship
• Retail Management
• Fashion Buying
• Finance
• Hospitality Management
• Tourism Management
• Environmental Health Risk Management
• Health Care Risk Management
• Food Safety Management
• Culinary Innovation
• Engineering Computation
• Applied Computing for Technologists
• Advanced Engineering
• Electronics and Communications Engineering
• Facilities Management
• Construction Project Management
• Sustainable Development
• Regional and Local Development
• Spatial Planning
• Spatial Information Mangement
• Planning and Development
• Real Estate
• Quantity Surveying
• Computing
• Molecular Pathology
• Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
• Physics
• Biological Sciences
• Third Level Learning and Teaching
• Digital Games
• Ghaeilge Fheidhmeach
• Energy Management
• Food Science, Technology and Nutrition
• Applied E-Learning

At DIT, postgraduate research is recognised as an invaluable means of training students in critical inquiry and problem solving skills required for creating and applying knowledge, and encouraging creativity and innovation. The guiding principle is to develop a comprehensive and critical understanding of the subject under examination in the area of study. Interdisciplinary work and collaborative research projects with other educational, research, industry, commercial, professional or governmental organisations in Ireland, the European Union and further afield, are especially emphasised. Projects can be pursued on a full time or part time basis.

Students are encouraged to apply for a place on DIT’s structured PhD programme and to follow a programme of research in one of the following areas of research expertise:
 

• Creative Arts and Media
• New Materials and Technologies
• Information & Communications Technologies
• Environmental Sustainability
• Food and Health Sciences
• Social, Business & Economic Development

The Graduate Research School supports and develops graduate research education across the organisation and its community of research students and research student supervisors. It provides guidance and assistance throughout the whole life cycle of a research project from the stage of application to the student graduation.
 
Contact details
For further information on our research activities and application procedures, please see our website available at www.dit.ie/graduateresearchschool.