The Office of Information Technology (OIT) is responsible for technology planning, activities, projects, and organizations at the University of Minnesota, directing the operations, services, and resources that support the University's mission and its central and distributed technology requirements.

OIT provides a wide array of services to the entire University community—from e-mail, to the telephone and network system, to developing and maintaining registration and human resources software, to security, to educational television programs addressing technology.

In addition OIT manages institutional information technology policies and standards, security practice and compliance, infrastructure, information, and solutions.