Cork Institute of Technology

CIT offers full-time, part-time and specialist courses in Art, Business and Humanities, Computing and Information Technology, Engineering, Media, Music, Nautical Studies, and Science.

Student Numbers

CIT currently has in the region of 12,000 registered students with approximately 2,000 new entries year on year. Of these approximately 6,000 are full-time and the remaining are part-time. The part-time student population consists of a wide variety of students including access, evening and continued professional development students as well as a significant number studying music and drama at all levels.
 

Staff Numbers

At present, CIT has 1,425 staff members of which 824 are academic staff. The academic staff consists of 455 permanent whole-time, 136 pro-rata part-time and 233 hourly-paid part-time members. The non-academic staff is composed of technical support, library, administrative and services staff.

The non-academic staff members break down as follows: 187 Management, Clerical Admin and Library; 169 Student Services Support, including Exam Invigilators; 86 Technicians; 70 Research staff; and 89 support staff including Caretakers, Attendants and Cleaners.