Hotel & Catering Management Course in Galway, Ireland

Galway-Mayo Institute Of Technology:
From a 1970s Regional Technical College to a modern-day Institute of Technology, GMIT has grown to become a centre of education competing on a national and international stage. The days of the student as a young, fresh-faced school-leaver are over. Students now come in all guises and education is no longer time- or location-dependant. The changes all point to a new emphasis on review and evaluation. Higher education institutes are being increasingly challenged to explain what they are doing, how they are doing it and how well it is being done. GMIT’s own personal story began on Monday, 18th September 1972 when the first students entered the new Regional Technical College building on Dublin Road, Galway. Enrolment on that autumn day stood at 1,213 students; registration has doubled and tripled to reach almost 9,000 students today.

As a student of Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) you will have the opportunity to learn at one of the major centres of tertiary education in Ireland. You will join a community of around 8,000 students and as that student, you can be any age, from any country or background and study in a format that suits your requirements.

GMIT is proud of its identity and role as a publicly financed Institute of Technology. It is proud of its people and achievements and has confidence in its ability to meet the challenges of the future. All of our educational programmes have a professional orientation so that our students have a passport to the workplace.

We offer you the opportunity to build your qualifications over time and add to them at any point in your life. Having completed our international Foundation course, you are guaranteed a place on a Bachelor Degree programme and can proceed to an Honours Bachelors Degree and post-graduate studies. All of these programmes are validated by the Higher Education and Training Awards Council (HETAC) and conform to the national qualifications and Bologna framework. This means that your GMIT qualification will have international recognition.

The Institute wants to provide you with opportunities to develop yourself so that you can contribute to the economic, cultural and social life of any environment in which you live. The wide range of social, cultural and sporting clubs and societies of GMIT will give you the opportunity to build skills, competencies and friendships which will enhance and enrich your personal and professional development. We also hope that you will see the GMIT experience as an important and enjoyable part of your life-long learning.

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Hotel & Catering Management -4 years; Bachelor of Business in Hotel & Catering Management -3 years; Bachelor of Business in Tourism and Services Marketing -3 years.

We offer undergraduate, apprentice and post-graduate courses across a range of disciplines, which you can explore here on our web site. In the Institute of Technology sector in Ireland there is a unique blending of courses in science, business, engineering, technology and humanities and it is possible to progress through higher certificate, degree and master's level awards on to Ph.D. Our award system is aligned with the European Credit Transfer System and this enables our students to transfer with ease to study abroad. International students coming to GMIT also avail of this credit transfer arrangement. We have links with almost 100 centres of higher education throughout Europe and the U.S. and we welcome applications from students across the world.

There are five Schools in the Institute, Science, Engineering, Hotel and Catering Studies, Humanities and Business Studies offering over 100 programmes. GMIT is keen to further develop the international character of the Institute and welcome enquiries from prospective students. Annual fee + registration charge is €9,500. Two student villages very close to the college. Minimum budget to live in Galway for a week is €150. Galway is a student friendly city with 15,000 students in a city of 65,000.