Dundalk Institute of Technology is the leading 3rd-level, higher education provider in Ireland - Northeast. The Institute has 4000 full-time students and 1000 part-time students.

The Institute has developed a broad range of Bachelor Degree programmes, as well as numerous taught Masters Degree programmes within its 4 academic schools:

• School of Business and Humanities
• School of Engineering
• School of Informatics and Creative Arts
• School of Health & Science

The Institute also has 6 Research Centres on campus, which support Research and Development activities, and Research-based Masters and Doctoral programmes:

• Centre for Entrepreneurship Research
• Centre for Renewable Energy
• National Centre for Freshwater Studies
• Netwell Centre for Ageing
• Smooth Muscle Research Centre
• Software Technology Research Centre

• Games Development
• Internet Technologies
• Software Development
• Applications and Support
• Networking and Support
• Applied Music
• Creative Multimedia
• Nursing (General, Psychiatric, Intellectual Disability)
• Midwifery
• Health and Physical Activity
• Early Childhood Studies
• Applied Bioscience
• Pharmaceutical Science
• Agriculture
• Veterinary Nursing
• Mechanical Engineering
• Electronics
• Civil Engineering
• Building
• Building Surveying
• Apprenticeships
• Marketing
• International Management
• Accounting and Finance
• Public Relations
• Management and Administration
• Business Information Systems
• Performing Arts
• Community Sports & Youth Work Leadership
• Social Care
• Video and Film
• Hospitality Management
• Event Management
• Bachelor of Arts in Humanities
• Bachelor of Business
• Bachelor of Arts in Community Youth Work
• Higher Certificate in Culinary Arts

Bachelor programmes are offered at both Level 7 (3-year general degree programme) and Level 8 (*typically *four-year, honours degree programme). Postgraduate degree programmes at Level 9 are typically one-year, full-time taught programmes, with opportunity in some instances to take a programme part-time over 2 years, or by research.

• M.B.S (Entrepreneurship and Marketing)
• Executive M.B.A
• M.A in Accounting
• M.A in Cultural Innovation for the Arts
• M.A in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
• M.Sc. in Computing
• M.Sc. in Software Entrepreneurship
• M.A/M.Sc. in Music
• M.Sc. in Music Technology
• M.Sc. in Future Communications in Creative Technologies
• M.Sc. in Renewable Energies

Opportunities for postgraduate research are also available through the Institute’s four academic schools and Institute research centres, in the areas of: Entrepreneurship; Software Technologies; Music (& Music Technology); Environmental Science; Smooth Muscle Research; and Health and Ageing.

Recent years have witnessed the transformation of the campus at Dundalk Institute of Technology. Facilities on campus include:

• Library and Information Resource Centre, with 120 pcs on open access
• Gym
• Shop
• Health Centre
• Counselling Services and Chaplaincy
• A state-of-the-art Nursing and Health Studies Building
• A wind turbine on campus, generating the Institute’s own electricity
• 700-seater new Restaurant
• New Performing Arts Theatre
• On-Campus Accommodation
• New faculty building for Informatics, Music, and Creative Multimedia

As well as the great choice of courses on offer, there is an excellent mix of over 60 student sports clubs and cultural societies at Dundalk Institute of Technology. The college is also a short walk or bus ride to Dundalk town centre, where there are excellent recreational amenities, including retail parks, shopping centres, a sports bowl, soccer dome, all-weather racing track, ice dome, cinemas, theatre and restaurants.

The Gateway town of Dundalk is ideally located for going to college. Just 50 minutes by train from Dublin city, 45 minutes by car from Dublin Airport and one hour from Belfast, the town –located midway between Dublin and Belfast - is easily reached on the M1 motorway from all major towns in the northeast region.

County Louth itself is a place of great natural beauty, with the Cooley Peninsula, Moutains of Mourne and Carlingford providing an attractive and scenic backdrop to Dundalk.