History
GMIT was founded in 1972 as Regional Technical College Galway, through the 1980s it developed partnerships with other educational providers in the region such as the Franciscan Agricultural College, Mountbellew and Connemara West in Letterfrack, also in 1994 it opened a campus in Castlebar and Cluain Mhuire County Mayo. Galway like other Regional technical colleges gained autonomy in 1992. In 1997 the college was renamed Galway Mayo Institute of Technology.
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