I went to an all-girls secondary school. We didn’t have access to engineering subjects, but I always knew that I wanted to go to TUS as they offered an electrical engineering course.
Those smaller class sizes at the technological universities are a bonus: there are never more than 60 in any one class. Our lecturers are very accommodating, and they knew us all whereas, in a larger university with hundreds in a lecture theatre, they wouldn’t. H&MV are actually sponsoring my final year in college, and I am using their software to carry out the project – and they have offered me a job for next year, after I finish this course and spend my summer on a J1.
I am from Tipperary, and it’s only a 40-minute drive from the Limerick campus. It was LIT when I started, but when it became part of a technological university, it gave me the benefit of a university degree, which is perhaps a little more recognisable internationally than an institute of technology qualification.