| Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology | |
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| Institúid Teicneolaíochta na Gaillimhe-Maigh Eo | |
| President | Michael Carmody |
| Students | 9,000 |
| Location | Galway - Castlebar - Cluain Mhuire - Letterfrack - Mountbellew |
| Website | http://www.gmit.ie/ |
Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (Irish: Institúid Teicneolaíochta na Gaillimhe-Maigh Eo) is a third level institute of education and is based at five locations in the west of Ireland.
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The Dublin Road campus on the outskirts of Galway City is the administrative headquarters for the college and has five Schools of study, which include business, engineering, hotel catering, humanities and science. Also located at this campus is the Innovation in Business Centre (IiBC), the Lifelong Learning Centre and the Research, Development & Innovation Centre.
Cluain Mhuire is located a mile from the main campus on the Monivea Road. It is based in an old Redemptorist Monastery and is now the location of an Art, Design and media college. The campus has rapidly been gaining a reputation for high standards in the fields of fine art, design and media. The annual graduate exhibitions and screenings showcase the quality of the work being produced throughout the academic year.
The Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology at Castlebar is located on approximately 20 hectares of land less than 10 minutes walk from Castlebar Town. The Institute with its extensive, mature grounds and elegant buildings constitutes a pleasant and productive environment for study produced by these creative arts students. Programmes based in the Castlebar campus include; the department of Nursing and Health sciences and the department of Business, Humanities and Technology.
The Letterfrack campus is located in the renowned splendour of Connemara in Co. Galway. Letterfrack is a small village nestled under the Diamond Hill. Its main attractions are its stunning scenery and its proximity to Connemara National Park. The aim of GMIT, Letterfrack is to enable its graduates to contribute to, and influence, the fields of design processes and manufacture of furniture in ways that are innovative, creative and responsive to the needs and development of a quality Irish furniture industry.
GMIT was founded in 1972 as Regional Technical College Galway, through the 1980s it developed partnerships with other educational providers in the region such as the Franciscan Agricultural College, Mountbellew and Connemara West in Letterfrack, also in 1994 it opened a campus in Castlebar and Cluain Mhuire Co. Mayo. Galway like other Regional technical colleges gained autonomy in 1992.[1] In 1997 the college was renamed Galway Mayo Institute of Technology.[2]
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