Institute of Technology Sligo (Irish: Institiúid Teicneolaíochta, Sligeach) (ITS) is a state-funded third-level educational institution situated in the town of Sligo, Ireland. The institute has three faculties and nine departments.

Development

IT Sligo has developed a number of distance learning options, and as of 2016 reportedly had 1,800 online learners registered on various online programmes. Since then this has increased to approximately 3000 online learners.

In sports, the college has active ladies’ soccer and men’s Gaelic football teams, the latter winning the Sigerson Cup three times during the six years up to 2005. The college also caters for other sports such as indoor soccer, hang gliding, surfing and rugby.

In technology, IT Sligo’s “Team Hermes” won the software design category of the 2011 Microsoft Imagine Cup (a world student technology competition, held in 2011 in New York).

Construction began on a new science block in 2012. This involved the demolition of the old 1970s building and the building of a new three-storey School of Science and canteen.