Waterford Institute of Technology

The Waterford Institute of Technology was established in 1970 and is one of the largest institutes of technology in Ireland. It was the first to be awarded Institute of Technology status in 1998, the Institute was granted authority by the National Council for Educational Awards to award its own certificates and diplomas. The Waterford Institute of Technology provides tuition and programmes in various areas from Higher Certificate, Degree to Ph.D. Providing an extensive range of courses including humanities, health, and nursing, engineering and architecture, science and Informatics, business and education.

In 2018, the college was placed as the 7th best educational body in Ireland by the Webometrics and was ranked in 10th place by Unirank. Waterford Institute of Technology features regularly as one of the best performing higher education institutions in the annual Sunday Times rankings.