RMIT University

RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) is a public dual-sector university in Melbourne, Australia. It began in 1887 as the Working Men's College, later became a college of advanced education, and gained university status in 1992. It remains defined by industry-linked technical, design, and vocational education, with a main city campus on Swanston Street, campuses at Brunswick and Bundoora, and sites in Vietnam.

Academic colleges cover science, engineering and health; business and law; and design and social context, including architecture, fashion, media, and art. Graduate students use studios and laboratories on the city campus and research centers in advanced manufacturing, design, and information systems. The university is identified with design, architecture, engineering, and applied technology.

RMIT enrolls about 90,000 students when vocational and higher-education numbers are combined, including a large international cohort from more than 100 countries. Higher-degree-by-research students are a smaller slice of that total. Academic staff number several thousand. Alumni concentrate in architecture, industrial design, media, and Australian technology and business.

Graduate study includes coursework master's degrees in design, business, and engineering, plus PhD and master by research degrees. Supervision is studio-based in design fields and laboratory-based in engineering. The calendar is the Australian semester year, with some trimester teaching. Scholarships and industry-funded projects support research students. Graduate life is that of a downtown Melbourne campus, with studios and labs in the central business district.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, RMIT University lists 7 graduate programs across 5 subjects: 6 master's programs and 1 doctoral program, with the widest choice in agriculture, food & forestry, computer science and data science & business analytics. RMIT University holds rank 143 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.