RMIT is a multi-sector university of technology, design and enterprise.
The University’s mission is to help shape the world through research, innovation, quality teaching and engagement, and to create transformative experiences for students, getting them ready for life and work.
RMIT offers postgraduate, undergraduate, vocational education and online programs to provide students with a variety of work-relevant pathways.
With strong industry connections forged over more than 133 years, collaboration with industry remains integral to RMIT’s leadership in education, applied and innovative research, and to the development of highly skilled, globally-focused graduates.
RMIT is redefining its relationship in working with and supporting Aboriginal self-determination. The goal is to achieve lasting transformation by maturing values, culture, policy and structures in a way that embeds reconciliation in everything the university does. RMIT is changing its ways of knowing and working to support sustainable reconciliation and activate a relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
RMIT’s three campuses in Melbourne – City, Brunswick and Bundoora –are located on the unceded lands of the people of the Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation.
As a global university, RMIT has two campuses in Vietnam and a research and industry collaboration centre in Barcelona, Spain. We also offer programs through partners in destinations including Singapore, China, Indonesia and Hong Kong, with research and industry partnerships on every continent.
RMIT’s growing esteem as a global university is reflected by its marked improvement across all major ranking schemas in recent years. Since 2015, the University has moved up 81 places since 2015 to rank 223rd in the 2021 QS World University Rankings, advanced more than 150 places to 330th in the Academic Rankings of World Universities and leapt more than 150 places to be ranked in the top 301-350 band in the 2021 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
RMIT ranks 10th globally in the Times Higher Education Impact Ranking, which reflects our impact on society, through stewardship initiatives, leading education and research, and the contributions of our students, staff and partners.
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