RMIT University

251–300th
World University Rankings 2024
=7th
Impact Rankings 2023
53rd
Young University Rankings 2023
124 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia

About RMIT University

With an emphasis on technology, design and enterprise, RMIT University in Melbourne was originally established as a Working Men's College in 1887, and was granted formal university status in 1992. 

RMIT's motto translates as “a skilled hand, a cultivated mind”. There are three campuses in Australia, two in Vietnam (Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City) and a research and industry collaboration centre in Barcelona, Spain. The Melbourne city campus combines modern architecture with historic buildings, including a former magistrates’ court, Old Melbourne Gaol and the Capitol Theatre, and during graduation time RMIT students parade through the city’s streets in their academic gowns.

RMIT, which is Australia's largest tertiary institution, instructs more than 30,000 students, a quarter of whom are from overseas. There are courses in 23 schools across three academic colleges; the College of Design and Social Context, the College of Business, and the College of Science, Engineering and Health. RMIT has semester exchanges programmes involving more than 150 partner institutions in 31 cities on three continents. 

The university also runs an industry mentoring programme linking professionals with current students for one-to-one advice. RMIT has six core values. These are: passion, impact, inclusion, agility, courage and imagination.

Life in Australia's second-largest city is cosmopolitan with about half of Melbourne's 4 million people born outside the country. Aside from the city's bars, restaurants, galleries, museums and parks, there is the temptation of the great outdoors. The Great Ocean Road and Phillip Island, both in the state of Victoria, are popular places to visit and students with the means can travel further afield.

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Key statistics

  • 24.0
    No. of students per staff
    (1)
  • 34%
    Percentage of International Students
    (1)
  • 48 : 52
    Student Ratio of Females to Males
    (1)
  • 36%
    Proportion of ISR Publication
    (1)
  • 32,574
    Number of FTE Students
    (1)
Based on data collected for the (1) 2024 World University Rankings

Subjects taught at RMIT University

  • Engineering & technology

    • Civil Engineering
    • Chemical Engineering
    • Electrical & Electronic Engineering
    • Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
    • General Engineering
  • Social sciences

    • Politics & International Studies (incl Development Studies)
    • Sociology
    • Communication & Media Studies
    • Geography
  • Clinical, pre-clinical & health

    • Medicine & Dentistry
    • Other Health
  • Life sciences

    • Biological Sciences
    • Agriculture & Forestry
    • Sport Science
  • Education

    • Education
  • Arts & humanities

    • Art, Performing Arts & Design
    • Languages, Literature & Linguistics
    • Architecture
  • Physical sciences

    • Geology, Environmental, Earth & Marine Sciences
    • Mathematics & Statistics
    • Physics & Astronomy
    • Chemistry
  • Business & economics

    • Economics & Econometrics
    • Business & Management
    • Accounting & Finance
  • Psychology

    • Psychology
  • Computer science

    • Computer Science
  • Law

    • Law