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Waterford Institute of Technology

Founded: 1970

President: Professor Willie Donnelly

Vision: We are an education-focussed collaborative, inclusive, ethical and innovative community. Our goal is to be in the top one hundred young universities in the world by 2030, demonstrating quality and excellence in all our activities. Our focus will be on forming responsible global citizens, creating new knowledge and actively leading social and economic change.

Point of Note: Sunday Times Institute of Technology of the Year, 2021

Waterford Institute of Technology is firmly committed to enhancing the quality of life of citizens of the city of Waterford, the South-East region and the nation. WIT plans its activities with this goal in mind.

Contact the Strategy Office

  • by email: [email protected] 
  • by telephone: +353(0)51-844179
  • by post: Strategy Office, Rm TL237,Tourism and Leisure Building, Waterford Institute of Technology, Cork Rd., Waterford X91 K0EK
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The Institue has just completed and published its Strategic Plan for the period 2018-2021. You may view the Plan here. In summary, the Plan: 

  • Declares WIT's ambition to be an international educational leader and describes the Institute's goal to be amogst the Top 100 universities under 50 years old by 2030;
  • Identifies the ongoing Technological University designation process as an important step towards achieving this ambition;  
  • Describes ways in which the coming years will see WIT enhance its ability to be an agent for social, cultural and economic transformation in the South-East of Ireland;
  • Sets out an action plan in seven key areas and describes the Institute's plans to
    • Enhance its learning environment and the quality of education for students;
    • Open up the Institute to more students and different categories of students;
    • Continue to expand its high quality research and innovation activity;
    • Work closely with communities and other stakeholders across the region to enhance the quality of life of all citizens;
    • Link more effectively with international partners and bring in more international students to the organisation and the region;
    • Develop management structures to fit a transformed, flexible organisation;
    • Further build the Institute's financial sustainability;
  • Shows the Institute building a more collaborative, accessible organisation that will be clearly progressive and innovative. 

Key Facts and Figures

  • 9,282 students

    4,748 male (51%) and 4,534 female (49%)

    7,297 full-time (79%) and 1,985 part-time (21%)

    7,923 are undergraduates (85%) 406 are apprenticeships (4%), and 953 are post-graduates (10%), of whom 156 are PhD students

    2,016 (22%) are full-time honours bachelors degree students

    2,120 (23%) are first year full-time new entrants

    6,413 (69%) students come from the SE region of Ireland

  • 1,012 staff

         469 are male (46%)

         543 are female (54%)

         528 are faculty, of whom 252 (48%) are PhD qualified

         19 are professors (including 3 Emeritus)

         166 are research staff

  • Cork Rd, Waterford

        37 acres, 44,000 m2 of buildings

    College Street, Waterford

        7 acres, 10,000 m2

    West Campus, Carriganore, Waterford

        170 acres, Sports Zone: 10,000 m2 Innovation Zone: 12,225 m2

    IDA Industrial Park, Waterford

        1 acre, 3,900 m2

    Granary, Waterford City

        1,700 m2

    St Kieran’s, Kilkenny

        600m2

  • School of Business

             1,625 students 15% of whom are part-time (840 male 785 female)

             83 academic staff (38 male 45 female) 

             40 with PhDs (49%),

             9 professional, managerial and support staff (0 male 9 female)

     

    School of Lifelong Learning & Education.

             568 students 97% of whom are part-time (183 male 385 female)

             44 academic staff (11 male 33 female)

             11 with PhDs (25%)

             8 professional, managerial and support staff (0 male 8 female)

     

    School of Engineering

             1,345 students 44% of whom are part-time (1,191 male 154 female)

             84 academic staff (72 male 12 female)

             18 with PhDs (21%)

             21 professional, managerial and support staff (14 male 7 female)

     

    School of Health Sciences

             1,417 students 13% of whom are part-time (439 male 978 female)

             62 academic staff (18 male 44 female)

             33 with PhDs (55%)

             11 professional, managerial and support staff (1 male 10 female)

     

    School of Humanities

             2,488 students of whom 3% are part-time (871 male 1,617 female)

             132 academic staff (50 male 82 female)

             54 with PhDs (38%)

             14 professional, managerial and support staff (5 male 9 female)

     

    School of Science & Computing

             1,839 students 18% are part-time (1,224 male 615 female)

             118 academic staff (56 male 62 female)

             72 with PhDs (61%)

             19 professional, managerial and support staff (8 male 11 female)

  • 2,602 graduates in 2018/19

    1,881 from full-time programmes (912 male 969 female)

    1,044 graduated were graduates of full-time, honours bachelors degrees, of whom 195 (19%) graduated with first class honours (81 male 114 female)

    721 from part-time programmes (292 male 429 female)

     

    The breakdown by disciplinary category

    783 (30%) Business, Administration and Law

    604 (23%) Health and Welfare

    256 (10%) Engineering, Manufacturing and Construction

    214 (8%) Services

    172 (7%) Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

    157 (6%) Information & Communications Technologies

    123 (5%) Arts and Humanities

    121 (5%) Education

    113 (4%) Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics

    34 (1%) Social Science, Journalism and Information

    25 (1%) Generic Programmes

  • WIT is a high-performing organisation when it comes to research.

    In the 2019-20 academic year, this high performance is visible in … 

     

    81 funding successes from 167 proposals

     

    €10,210,293 funding secured.

        48% from Irish funding agencies

        14% from European funding agencies

        15% from industry

     

    160 peer-reviewed publications by faculty and staff

    73 research agreements with industry (10 with values more than €25,000)

     

    €16.6 million total awards to date in Horizon 2020 funding (Leading IoT in Ireland)

  • Enrolment, student distribution, student gender, graduates: WIT SRS Annual Returns, March 2020.

    Mature students numbers and number of students with disabilities: WIT Return to Equal Access Survey 2019-20

    Staffing, staff gender, staff distribution: WIT Public Service Numbers Return, December 2020

    Staff qualifications: WIT HR Office and WIT School Offices, December 2020

    Regional Recruitment: WIT Strategy Office feeder schools analysis, 2020

    Research funding, publications, research agreements: WIT Research Annual Report 2019-20

Main Campus Cork Road, Waterford City,
Co. Waterford, Ireland
Eircode: X91 K0EK

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T: +353 51 30 2000 E: [email protected]

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