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management; human resource international business to education and further research
management; business with law; languages, law to social studies, have developed a reputation
and accounting – from higher management to architecture, for excellence and include the
certificate to honours degree built environment to technology, telecommunications software and
level. computing to sport, psychology systems group; pharmaceutical
to hospitality, marketing to and molecular bio-technology;
Other schools at IT Carlow have culinary arts, and a wide range of eco-innovation and applied
courses as diverse as law, industrial
design, social studies, digital professional development subjects material research.
in the school of lifelong learning.
marketing, sports and exercise, Looking towards the future
media and public relations, and Meanwhile, the college’s of further education in the
marketing. research centres for fourth-level area, plans are well advanced
to develop a Technological
Waterford IT on the edge of
Waterford city, just across the University of the southeast,
Wexford county boundary, has following campaigns to this end
grown from small origins in the by colleges in the region over
1970s to become one of the largest recent years.
third-level institutions in the Once given the green light,
country. Its main campus is on this venture will only serve to
Waterford’s Cork Road, one of the increase the calibre of third and
main arteries from the city centre, fourth-level education on offer
but it also has others dotted in this corner of Ireland as well
around the area. as boosting the local research
capabilities.
Schools at WIT include business,
health sciences, humanities, In the meantime, the main ABOVE & LEFT:
engineering, science and universities of Dublin – UCD, Students at IT
computing, as well as lifelong TCD and DCU – have enviable Carlow, Wexford
learning. reputations on the international
stage and many of their graduates
Over 6,000 students call the end up in Wexford and the
college their educational “home”
and graduates are highly-prized surrounding areas availing of that
much talked-about “work-life
among employers and businesses
both in Ireland and abroad. balance”.

Courses cover the whole range
from accounting to economics,

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