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Canadian Institute of Technology

Albanian private university and academic institution

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ15040999
Source-derived summary

The Canadian Institute of Technology (CIT; Albanian: Instituti Kanadez i Teknologjisë) is a for-profit university college located in Tirana, Albania. The university college is known to offer Bachelor and Master programs, entirely in English, divided into two faculties, the two faculties being the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Economy. Its curriculum is based on the Canadian one. The university college was established on 10 November 2021.

History and organisation

The Canadian Institute of Technology (CIT) was established on 10 November 2011. The university college's philosophy "aims to provide potential students with the necessary and competitive skills demanded by the Albanian and Balkan region as well as the European and North-American labor markets." The university college is organised in two faculties, the Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Economy.

The Faculty of Engineering is composed of the following units:

Department of Software Engineering

Department of Industrial Engineering

Scientific Research Unit “CIRD Engineering”

The Faculty of Economy is composed of the following units:

Department of Business Administration

Department of Business Administration and Information Technology

Scientific Research Unit “CIRD Economy”

The university college received accreditation on March 25, 2016.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Canadian Institute of Technology” is albanian private university and academic institution. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Canadian, Institute and Technology, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2011, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2011. For this dossier, Canadian, Institute and Technology is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “albanian private university and academic institution” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15040999. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021, 2011 and 2016.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Canadian Institute of Technology”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Canadian Institute of Technology primary sources, Canadian Institute of Technology archive and Canadian research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Canadian Institute of Technology”?
  2. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Canadian Institute of Technology” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.