[5] From its foundation CIBI programmes were accredited by the Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy until its closure in 2015;[3] subsequently the CIBI programmes have been validated by St. Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth,[6] which also approved the CIBI's Master of Theology in Carmelite Studies and Bachelor of Theology in Carmelite Studies programmes upon their respective launches in 2012 and 2016.

[9][10] The Carmelite Institute of Britain and Ireland offers, since January 2019, 53 undergraduate courses and 12 postgraduate modules (including a dissertation preparation module for students planning on undertaking the composition of a dissertation) have been formally approved for accreditation by St. Patrick Pontifical University, Maynooth.

[11][12] In addition to the school's native Ireland and the UK, graduates have hailed from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Malaysia, Norway, and the United States.

The CIBI is situated at the Carmelite Centre, Gort Mhuire, Ballinteer, Co. Dublin, Ireland.

From 1949, Gort Mhuire was the novitiate for the order and the theologate for the Carmelites, since students were unable to travel to Rome during the Second World War.