Dear Prospective Student,

We are delighted that you are considering WIT as the destination for your postgraduate study and we hope that you will find the information you require to make this important decision.

Waterford Institute of Technology is a vibrant and exciting organisation that recognises the primary importance of its people.  We want bright, imaginative and self-motivated people to come here for postgraduate studies and we look for the same qualities when we are recruiting our academic staff to lead our research groups. This makes for a research community which is friendly, supportive and innovative. Although WIT is a young organisation in terms of research, it has developed a very good reputation as verified by its publication record and its successes in gaining extensive external funding against competition from Universities. These funding successes cover significant awards from the Irish Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions, Science Foundation Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, the Irish Research Councils, the Health Research Board and the European Union Framework, ICT, Socrates and Inter-reg programmes.

The postgraduate prospectus is designed to give you a taste of what is available for you at WIT.  If it whets your appetite, we invite you to contact a head of department, course leader or lead researchers by e-mail to find out more.Of course, you are also welcome to visit us to see WIT for yourself.  I hope you will decide to join the postgraduate community in WIT and if you do, we give you an undertaking that we will do our best to make your experience here worthwhile, memorable and rewarding.