Dundalk Institute of Technology

About

DkIT is the focal point for higher education and research on the Belfast-Dublin corridor, serving the North Leinster, South Ulster region of Ireland. DkIT is the focal point for higher education and research on the Belfast-Dublin corridor, serving the North Leinster, South Ulster region. Our students and graduates are an important asset to this region and your success is vital to its continued economic, social, and cultural growth. We look forward to welcoming you to our campus community in the near future.

Dundalk Institute of Technology began as Dundalk Regional Technical College. An institute in Dundalk was first envisioned in the Steering Committee on Technical Education Report in 1966, speaking on Dundalk in particular they stated.

We consider that the Regional Colleges fall into three groups the other five centers where it has been decided to establish Regional Technical Colleges. We anticipated that the last group would probably not grow industrially as rapidly as a group [Waterford and Galway] although Dundalk and Carlow appeared to us to have greater immediate potential than the other centers in the same group.

The building program for the regional colleges commenced in 1968, with Dundalk Regional Technical College opening its doors in September 1969, officially opening in 1971. In the late 1990s, all of the technical colleges in the country were redefined as institutes of technology. Dundalk Regional Technical College adopted the name Dundalk Institute of Technology on 28 January 1998.