A institute will bring programmes at Higher Certificate (formerly National Certificate), Ordinary Bachelor Degree (formerly National Diploma), Honours Bachelor Degree, masters, and Doctorate Degree levels. A institute has its have award powers at Masters, Bachelor, & subdegree level, & inside September 2005 it was approved to grant its have awards at doctorial level; antecedently, its doctorial degrees were formally awarded by HETAC. There are presently the growing total of calls for the institute to become mass produced the to the full university, and WIT itself is actively working towards that aim, typically articulated as a projected University of the South East.

A institute has developed in foursome campuses in the city. A independent campus on a Cork Road was established within 1970 & more buildings & facilities were added all over the years. a latest one come a state-of-the art Library & Info Technology Centre. the 2nd big campus is at College Street & is a bit of super historical buildings purchased from either a Proficient Shepherd The correct sequence of nuns & a beautiful Pugin-designed chapel, which is used for concerts & ceremonies. Within September 2005, the institute opened a freshly complex good outside the city at Carriganore to home a Search & Innovation Centre, & which might finally home its corporate headquarters, the student village, & may provide extensive sports & recreational facility.

Within October 2005 a institute was selected per The Sunday Times newspaper as a "Institute of Technology of the Year" inside Ireland.