General DIT View

matt4504

Hey,

Just wondering, what's the general view on DIT? Is it really bad or just average? Basically just wondering, will my degree be looked down on lol?

Matt

Theta

I think the place is great! The atmosphere is much more personal in my mind because it is smaller than the other big uni's. DIT is much more hands on I think well at least my course is. And as far as I know the degrees are held in the the same standing.

melekalikimaka

depends what your going for, it'd be after trinity/ucd but no lower, dit it very specific in degrees and it can give you the edge if you dont do the standard bus/eng route. theres tens of tens of eng courses and likewise for business, alot of companies in the area you study will headhunt the course.

so not its not frowned upon. will be an accredited university soon too <hopefully(go grange gorman)>

Gazza22

No your degree will not be looked down on at all. For a lot of courses in DIT, industry would preferr them over the more theory focused UCD or Trinity.

As for the college itself, i think it's great. My advice is go and visit DIT along with a few other colleges here and you will know whats right for you. I did exactly that, went to every open day.

I thought DIT was right for me, Trinity was ok, UCD & Maynooth i hated.

Mellor

matt4504 wrote:

Hey,

Just wondering, what's the general view on DIT? Is it really bad or just average? Basically just wondering, will my degree be looked down on lol?

Matt

It reply depends on what you wish to study, DIT excels in some area more than others.

j4vier

some courses are much more practical than in other uni
im doin chemistry and to be honest it s a great advantage

matt4504

Well i've appled to do Retail & Services Management so it's pretty much only at DIT so hopefully it'll be decent.

Matt

melekalikimaka

my friend is in his final year in that, he loves it.

Goebels

How is their degree in Comp science seen by employers and such?

Theta

I'm in my final year of that degree and it must be held in some regard with the caliber of companies that have been taking students into there graduate programs!!

joeybloggs

Im agreening with majority. The small classes allow for better interactions with both tutors and fellow students.It may not have the glitz of trinity or UCD but a cracking atmosphere is always present.

strychnine

Goebels wrote:

How is their degree in Comp science seen by employers and such?

Seen as being on a par with all the others, and as was said all the top recruiters recruit from this course, google, ibm, microsoft the usual lot. Im in third year of the degree. Theres at 3 lads going off now next month to google for work placement and at least one for microsoft. Drop out rate is massive in first year though.

flynnser19

im going o be doing computer science this year (i hope)!!ive been to college already like but dropped partly because of the computer part bein too easy but is it OVERLY hard??is the maths tough???

ballooba

I studied at DIT Aungier St for 4 years. I'm currently in Smurfit School UCD.

Just to point out Smurfit is completely different because it's fee paying. So buildings and canteen are a lot nicer than Belfield. No vandalism here either.

Lecturers here are more interested than *some* lecturers in DIT (small minority). No slackers or halfwits working here. Lecturers appear to progress on merit.

DIT Aungier St was a *far* nicer campus than Belfield. The library in particular in Belfield is a sh1t hole. Restaurant in DIT is better also. Aungier St is a particularly nice campus though.

DIT is smaller and thus a bit more friendly, but a lot of people in DIT did seem to have an inferiority complex. Bit of a negative attitude.

On the jobs front I do believe a DIT degree is not as prestigous I am afraid to admit.

Dirty Frank

i'm transferring to mechanical engineering in september hopefully! whats bolton street like? i'm in it sligo (or S.H.I.T as is the official title) and its ok here but i wanna go somewhere different. we've a fairley practical course here and its ok i guess. i've been told that its nearly always more practical in i.t.'s than in uni's, is this true in DIT? oh yeah, is it difficult to transfer in from another collage? i was told there would be competition for places so i'm tryin to work my ass off now. it'd be great if i could get in easy. i hate workin....:D

drivealive

Dirty Frank wrote:

i'm transferring to mechanical engineering in september hopefully!

Me too hopefully.Coming from DKIT with a ord degreein mech,ive only heard good things so far,and lecturers reckon it isnt that hard to get in!Depends on your results really i suppose

Dirty Frank

drivealive wrote:

Me too hopefully.Coming from DKIT with a ord degreein mech,ive only heard good things so far,and lecturers reckon it isnt that hard to get in!Depends on your results really i suppose

dont like the sound of that! there's a good few from sligo tryin for a spot cus its a straight one year degree, here its 2 years (though they're on about changin it to a 1 year soon) and here ya have to specialise in design or quality (monotonous measuring of parts with a vernier for 9 hrs a day apparently!) the posts here seem pretty positive in any event. ya applyin anywhere else?

Tails142

Bolton street is great craic to be honest - at first appearance it is a **** hole but it grows on you and becomes very homely; I'm in final year and will definetly miss it once I'm finished - I'll never be able to forget the pleasure that is a deco's breakfast roll!!

i'm transferring to mechanical engineering in september hopefully! whats bolton street like? i

As for which degree is better... it would be very difficult to say, I'm doing Structural Engineering; I have friends that are doing Civil and Mechanical in Trinity and it would appear that the civil guy doesnt know much more about structures than I do so I dont feel very hard done by.

At the end of the day, if your employer is a graduate of DIT, he will be more biased towards hiring fellow DIT graduates, same for Trinity, UCD, etc.

As for this rumour that the DIT engineering courses are more practical... well I'm not sure how true that is.

In first year you do a bit of an 'engineering' course on friday evenings, things like milling, lathing, metal casting, welding - its more of a laugh or a bit of fun though and isnt really going to be of any use to you.

The labs however are run slightly different, my friend in Civil in Trinity says he watches his labs on a TV while a lecturer in another part of the college carries them out (due to class sizes) - the labs in DIT are all hands on, but again... who cares =P You only end up copying the lab reports off somebody else in the end.

The major difference would be that in final year you do a thesis type project individually, and you are able to test materials etc. In Trinity I believe the testing equipment (loading rigs etc) is normally reserved for postgrad students so you're more restricted to analytical/computer based models for your thesis.

Whether this "hands on" experience is actually beneficial is debatable though.

ballooba

Don't expect too many females in Bolton St.

melekalikimaka

and the ones thats do go there come out truamatised from the experience

emmacxxx

matt4504 wrote: »

Well i've appled to do Retail & Services Management so it's pretty much only at DIT so hopefully it'll be decent.

Matt

Me too see u der! Oh and from what I've heard, its an amazing course! Well I hope so anyways!

kirkfx

emmacxxx wrote: »

Me too see u der! Oh and from what I've heard, its an amazing course! Well I hope so anyways!

That guys post is from 2007 so he'll be a few years above you now.

emmacxxx

kirkfx wrote: »

That guys post is from 2007 so he'll be a few years above you now.

Ohh i thought this was one of the threads talking about 2010..opps!

Cheeky monkey

Wow talk about necro :P

PDG88

hey,

Thinking of transferring into ur course in September! was wondering how you find the course?? gr8 if u cud gt back to me!!

thanks,
pauric

Catxscotch

I studied Civil in Bolton St, was gas craic to be fair, and Im a girl so it was brilliant!!
As for hands on, labs are much better, and final year thesis was really helped by one on one tutor and full use of all labs whenever I needed them.

mausram

hahahaaa it sounds nice: Don't expect too many females in Bolton St.
hope its still the same! im a girl and looking forward to it hahahaaaa

can anyone give us a feedback about architectural technology, construction economics & management or property economics courses please???

Dafydd Thomas

I'm in Architecture and there are loads of girls. Architectural Technology in DIT is best in the country, it's the only one that's a level 8 from year 1. Although WIT could have the same system. We do projects with the first year techies (I'm also a first year), I have to say the course doesn't seem as well ran as mine but none of them are really. There is a lot of work in technology so if you like long hours it's the course for you.

_sparkie_

Dafydd Thomas wrote: »

I'm in Architecture and there are loads of girls.

you hardly count aspart of bolton street locked away in the penthouse.

Dafydd Thomas

_sparkie_ wrote: »

you hardly count aspart of bolton street locked away in the penthouse.

Ha. We don't go out much.

mausram

hmmmm.... any info about property economics???? its like no one is doing it, havent heard a thing about this one anyone!? heheheee