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The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) is an Australian university and vocational education provider in Melbourne, Victoria. It has two main branches known as RMIT University (encompassing RMIT TAFE) and RMIT International University. Founded by The Hon. Francis Ormond in 1887, RMIT University is the seventh oldest higher education provider in Australia and third oldest in the state of Victoria. Its foundation campus, the City campus, is located at the northern end of the Melbourne city centre. It's one of only 20 institutes of technology in the World that have regularly featured on the THES - QS World University Rankings' annual list of "Top 200 World Universities".[2] In Australia, it's considered to be a selective university; and ranked tenth in the nation and third in the state of Victoria in terms of its research output.[3][4] RMIT University focuses on higher education and research, while its TAFE division offers vocational education and training. This makes it one of few higher education providers in Australia that offer every level of award in the Australian Qualifications Framework.[5] It also allows its students to study towards dual higher/vocational qualifications. It is a member of the Global U8 Consortium and the Australian Technology Network.
[edit] History
[edit] The Working Men's CollegeIn 1881, prominent grazier and philanthropist, The Hon. Francis Ormond, proposed that a technical college would serve as "useful" to the City of Melbourne. Ormond - who had donated the majority of funds towards the foundation of Ormond College at the University of Melbourne - offered £5,000 towards the establishment of a college on the proviso that the public contribute a "like sum".[6][7][8] A considerable sum was raised by the Council of the Melbourne Trades Hall, which rallied support amongst its membership of unions. Construction of "The Working Men's College" then began in 1886, on a site provided by the Colony of Victoria, next to the Melbourne Magistrates' Court, and adjacent the Melbourne Public Library on La Trobe Street. The College was officially opened during a gala ceremony on June 4, 1887[6][8] and, on the night of its opening, took 320 enrollments which increased to over 1000 within its first 12 months of operation. Ormond - who was a staunch believer in the values of education and a tireless campaigner for the College - served as its President till his death in 1889.[6][7] The College began offering full-time courses in 1899, and was incorporated under the "Companies Act" as a private college in 1904.[6][8] Around the turn of the century, it began developing courses in engineering, applied science, chemistry, metallurgy and mining. Between the 1900s and the 1920s, the College expanded beyond its foundation building, and constructed two new buildings on nearby Bowen Street, a new Art School and also acquired the neighbouring, and recently decommissioned, Melbourne Gaol site for expansion.[6] During the 1930s, the College underwent further expansion with the completion of an Engineering School and a Radio School, and two more buildings constructed on Bowen Street. In 1934, the College officially changed its name to the "Melbourne Technical College" (incorporating The Working Men's College), after a representation from its Student's Association.[6][8] 
[edit] Contribution to WWI and WWIIThe College contributed to Australia's war efforts both in World War I and in World War II. Initially, between 1917 and 1919, it trained over 1500 returned ANZAC service men from World War I in vocational qualifications for post-war life in Australia.[6] Between 1939 and 1945, during World War II, it made a greater contribution to Australia's war efforts by training 23,000 service men and women (approximately one-sixth of all trained in Australia),[6][9] mainly Royal Australian Air Force personnel in radio communications, as well as 2,000 civilians in munitions manufacturing. The Government of Australia also commissioned the College to manufacture parts for the Air Force's DAP Beaufort Bomber.[6][8] After World War II, and during the 1950s, the College again trained returned service men and women for post-war life, which prompted the development of courses in food technology, transport studies, accountancy and advertising, and the revision of its art syllabuses. During this time, the College also embraced the Commonwealth of Nations' newly devised Colombo Plan, which increased its intake of South East Asian students greatly.[8] [edit] Royal patronage and creation of RMIT
In 1954, the College was awarded royal patronage by Queen Elizabeth II for its great service to the Commonwealth in the area of education and for its contribution to the war effort; and was officially renamed the "Royal Melbourne Technical College".[6][8] It became (and it remains to this day) the only higher education institution in Australia with the right of the prefix "Royal" along with the use of the Monarchy of England's regalia.[6] In 1960, it was voted by the Council of the College to begin the process of reconstituting itself as a tertiary institution, and the name of the College was then officially changed to the "Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology".[6][8] During the late 1950s and 1960s, the non-tertiary branch of RMIT was reconstituted as the "Technical College" (TAFE), and it was believed the Institute and the College would eventually separate. However, the two have remained as incorporated branches of RMIT to the present day. Also during the early 1960s, RMIT's Art School established its reputations as an Australian leader in its field.[6] 
During the 1970s and early 1980s, the Institute expanded its degrees in business and engineering, and the College expanded its courses in technology and general studies. In 1979, the neighbouring Emily McPherson College of Domestic Economy on Russell Street amalgamated with RMIT, bringing its long-standing reputation in fashion design and food technology.[6][8] RMIT's Aeronautics School also established its reputation as an Australian leader in its field, during the late 1970s.[6] RMIT celebrated its centenary in 1987, with a year-long calendar of events staged across the City of Melbourne, a time capsule set in the Bowen Street courtyard of The Working Men's College's foundation building on La Trobe Street, and a book documenting RMIT's complete 100 years of history, called "The Tech: A Centenary History of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology", is also published.[6][8] In 1992, RMIT was granted full public university status by the Parliament of Victoria under the "Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Act".[10] RMIT's newly appointed Chancellery then officially adopted the names "RMIT University" for its Institute branch and "RMIT TAFE" for its College branch, during the early 1990s, and its Design School also established its reputation as an international leader in eco-friendly design.[8] [edit] Expansion and recent history
Following its reconstitution as a public university, RMIT then underwent a large and rapid expansion where a number of other institutes and colleges became amalgamated with it, between 1993 and 1999, which included: Phillip Institute of Technology, Melbourne College of Decoration and Design, Melbourne College of Printing and Graphic Art and Melbourne Institute of Textiles.[8][11] In 1995, RMIT acquired the neighbouring, and recently vacated, former Melbourne Magistrates' Court and City Watch House buildings, on the corner of La Trobe Street and Russell Street, and renamed its expanding campus in Melbourne the "City campus".[8] It also established a new enivronmentally sustainable "country campus" around 20 kms from the City campus, in Bundoora, which opened in 1995. In 1999, it acquired the derilect state heritage-listed Capitol Theatre in the Melbourne CBD, and refurbished it to its original design. It also established a specialised fashion and printing campus in Brunswick, on the site of the former Melbourne Institute of Textiles in 1999, and became a founding member of the Australian Technology Network, a coalition of leading Australian universities working with industry.[12][8] At the turn of the century, RMIT was invited by the Government of Vietnam to establish Vietnam's first foreign-owned university. In 2001, it established "RMIT International University, Vietnam" near the centre of Ho Chi Minh City, and a second campus in the Vietnamese capital city of Hanoi in 2004.[13] In its years of operation, the Government of Vietnam has awarded RMIT International University five Golden Dragon Awards for Education.[14] During the mid 2000s, RMIT experienced financial problems, partly due to problems associated with its student administration system upgrade (AU$47 million was spent in this effort). The financial problems eventually claimed the then Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ruth Dunkin. In 2005, RMIT appointed a new Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Margaret Gardner AO and, between 2006 and 2007, posted operating profits of AU$50.1 million and AU$109.5 million each year respectively.[15][16] In 2006, it also became a founding member of the Global U8 Consortium, an international group of leading "coastal" universities.[17] [edit] OrganisationRMIT University is structured as 25 separate schools, which offer courses at a vocational (TAFE), undergraduate and postgraduate level.[18] RMIT's schools are then grouped into one of three academically-contextual colleges, known as: Business, Design and Social Context and Science, Engineering and Technology. Its research institutes and centres are also grouped into each college, according to their academic context, to allow for greater cross-field research.[19] RMIT's schools also maintain their own field-relevant research collections, which are in addition to RMIT University's central library network, and in line with its "industry-relevant" ethos, a number of organisations are also partnered with RMIT's schools and institutes for research, including: Airbus, Australian Defence Force, BMW, Boeing Company, Country Road, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Ford Motor Company, Guess, IBM, Luxottica, Pacific Brands, Siemens, Tenix and Volkswagen Group, to name a few.[20][21][22][23][24][25] [edit] Colleges and Schools
College of Business (BUS)
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College of Design and Social Context (DSC)
College of Science, Engineering and Technology (SET)
[edit] Major research institutes and centres
[edit] Admissions and rankingsAs with all universities in Australia, entry to RMIT's tertiary programs, and some of its TAFE programs, are detirmined by the Equivalent National Tertiary Entrance Rank (ENTER) scoring system. Non-school leavers, and those without a sufficient ENTER score, may also sit the Special Tertiary Admissions Test (STAT) to gain entry to RMIT.[26] Prospective students make their applications through the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC) and, in some cases, directly to RMIT via a portfolio submission. Research produced by the Melbourne Institute in 2006 ranked Australian universities across seven discipline areas: Arts & Humanities, Business & Economics, Education, Engineering, Law, Medicine, and Science. For each discipline, RMIT University was ranked:[27]
1R1 refers to Australian and overseas Academics' rankings in tables 3.1 -3.7 of the report. R2 refers to the Articles and Research rankings in tables 5.1 - 5.7 of the report. (No. refers to the number of institutions in the table against which RMIT is compared.) 2Prior to 2007, RMIT did not have law school (the Department of Accounting and Law commenced a Juris Doctorate program in late 2007). 3Whilst RMIT offers programs in health sciences (including nursing, biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences) it does not have a traditional medical school. The following publications ranked universities worldwide. RMIT ranked:
1u/r = unranked. 2AsiaWeek is now discontinued. [edit] CampusesRMIT University maintains three campuses in Melbourne, Victoria - City, Bundoora and Brunswick. It also operates a number of specialised "sites" in metropolitan Melbourne and in rural Victoria. RMIT International University maintains two campuses in Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. RMIT also offers distance/online education through Open Universities Australia and is partnered with over 190 educational institutions around the World. In 2003, over 58,000 students studied at campuses of RMIT University and RMIT International University, with RMIT through Open Universities Australia and with RMIT's partner institutions Worldwide. Currently, prospective students of RMIT have a choice of over 900 higher education and TAFE programs located across all campuses, sites, by distance/online education and with partner institutions.[5] [edit] City (Melbourne)
RMIT's foundation campus was established in 1887 (as "The Working Men's College") at the northern end of the Melbourne city centre, in a single building on La Trobe Street. Since the late 19th century, the City campus has expanded beyond its original site to now encompass almost four entire city blocks.[34] Today it occupies a culturally significant area of Melbourne, and is adjacent to the State Library of Victoria and the Melbourne Central Shopping Centre (with its underground train station servicing RMIT), and close to Lygon Street's Italian district, Lonsdale Street's Greek district, Melbourne's Chinatown and the Queen Victoria Market. Locally referred to as the "RMIT Quarter" of Melbourne,[35] the campus is divided into three precincts, bordered by Queensberry Street to the north, Russell Street as well as Lygon Street to the east, La Trobe Street to the south and Elizabeth Street to the west. The City campus is built around Swanston Street, Bowen Street, Franklin Street, Victoria Street and Cardigan Street, and the off-site College of Business building located on nearby Bourke Street. The City campus is notable for its mix of modern and contemporary architecture as well as gothic revival and Victorian architecture. As RMIT expanded, its Council sought to preserve neighbouring historical and heritage-listed buildings, like The Working Men's College (renamed Francis Ormond Building), Emily McPherson College of Domestic Economy, Old Melbourne Gaol, the former Melbourne Magistrates' Court and City Watch House buildings, the former hall of the Ancient Order of Hibernians (renamed Story Hall), the former hall of the Ancient Order of Foresters and the off-site Capitol Theatre.[36] There is little on-site accommodation for students at the City campus, due to its central city location. RMIT Village: Old Melbourne is the only student accommodation owned by RMIT,[37] however, a number of privately owned student accommodation facilities are also located close to the campus. The residential colleges of the nearby University of Melbourne are also partnered with RMIT and available to its students.[38] The precincts of RMIT's City campus are: Swanston Precinct [edit] Campus redevelopmentThe City campus is currently undergoing a AU$500 million redevelopment, in accordance with RMIT University's "2007 - 2010 Infrastructure Plan".[39] The plan includes the construction of three new buildings and upgrades to existing buildings. An environmentally responsible eight level "Design Hub" is being constructed for the RMIT School of Architecture and Design, on the corners of Swanston and Victoria streets, which is part of an AU$800 million redevelopment of the former Carlton and United Beverages brewery site by Grocon.[40][41] The Design Hub will incorporate an outer skin of 16,000 sand blasted glass cells, some of which will be photovoltaic solar power collectors to help shade and power the building.[42][43] The AU$185 million future "Swanston Academic Building (SAB)" is the largest construction project ever undertaken by RMIT, and is planned to open in 2011.[44] The 40,000 square metre construction will see the relocation and consolidation of RMIT's College of Business (which is currently housed off-site on Bourke Street in the Melbourne city centre) into RMIT's main City campus area. The SAB will also house its own retail precinct and its facilities will include arena or "cabaret" style lecture theatres.[45] Another building, the "Swanston-A'Beckett Building (SABB)", will be constructed adjacent the SAB at a later date, and will house various RMIT University administration departments.[44] Major building upgrades in the plan include: the refurbishment of the Francis Ormond Building (the original "Working Men's College");[46] upgrades and the connection of Buildings 2, 4 and 6 to create an "RMIT School of Art precinct";[47] the addition of two levels and refurbishment of Building 9 for the eventual relocation of the RMIT School of Applied Communication;[48] and the refurbishment of the former Emily McPherson College for the eventual relocation of the RMIT Graduate School of Business.[49] The plan also includes some minor upgrades to many of the existing City campus buildings.[50] 
[edit] BundooraThe Bundoora campus is RMIT's award-winning "country campus", which was established in 1995.[8][51] It's RMIT's second oldest and second largest campus and is located under 20 km from the City campus, in Bundoora. The campus is divided into "East" and "West" by Plenty Road, and straddles the locality of University Hill's northern and western borders. The campus has its own transport interchange and is served by its own tram route (86/Bundoora RMIT-Docklands) and bus route (570/Bundoora RMIT-Thomastown) as well as a number of other trams and buses. The closest train station to the campus is Thomastown station. Unlike RMIT's entirely urban City campus in Melbourne, the Bundoora campus is set in 42 ha of open parklands and was also designed to be eco-friendly and environmentally sustainable. RMIT has sought to preserve much of the campus' natural heritage, notably the "Keelbundoora Scarred Tree Trail", an inventory of 800 year old trees with significant Indigenous Australian markings and heritage, located within the grounds of the Bundoora campus.[52][53] Bundoora campus-West is also home to RMIT's new state-of-the-art biosciences buildings, which were opened in 2002, as well as the Bundoora Netball and Sports Centre (BNASC), an environmentally sustainable sports and leisure centre with world-class netball facilities.[54][55] Bundoora campus-East is also home to the RMIT Wind Tunnel testing facility as well as the RMIT Renewable Energy Park. As the campus was established in 1995, much of it is housed in contemporary architecture and many of its buildings have gone on to win national awards for architectural and sustainable design.[51] The Bundoora campus has a focus on aerospace, engineering, medical sciences and social sciences.[56] [edit] Brunswick
The Brunswick campus is RMIT's specialised design campus,[57] and is located 5 km from the City campus, in Brunswick. Situated on Dawson Street, the campus is near Sydney Road, one of outer Melbourne's most multicultural shopping strips and the site of many art and music festivals.[58] It's well serviced by train via the close by Jewell station and by a number of trams that run along Sydney Road. Established in 1999, it is RMIT's smallest and youngest campus, although the history of the site can be dated back over 50 years prior, to the former Melbourne Institute of Textiles (which amalgamated with RMIT in 1998) which originally occupied the site of the Brunswick campus.[11] The campus is also home to RMIT's International Centre for Graphic Technology and Frances Burke Textiles Centre, and its buildings are an eclectic mix of industrial and contemporary architecture.[57] The Brunswick campus has a focus on fashion design, graphic design, printing, publishing and textiles.[59] [edit] Other sitesFisherman's Bend Hamilton Bullock Island Point Cook [edit] RMIT International University
RMIT International University in Vietnam, also known as "RMIT Vietnam" for short, was established in Ho Chi Minh City in 2001.[13] It's Vietnam's first fully foreign-owned university and RMIT's second major international venture to date (a Malaysian site known as "RMIT Penang" operated between 1996 and 1999). In 2004, a second campus was established in the Vietnamese capital city of Hanoi. Currently, RMIT Vietnam's campuses in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi have a combined population of over 3,800 students from Vietnam, Australia and various other countries. All degrees at RMIT Vietnam are recognised by the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training and are awarded by RMIT University in Australia.[13] [edit] RMIT University Library and galleries[edit] Library and field collections.jpg)
RMIT University Library RMIT University Library in Australia is linked to RMIT International University's libraries, located in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, in Vietnam. Collectively, the libraries house over a million books and have access to over 400 databases, containing tens of thousands of journals from around the World.[70][71] Specialised research collections are also housed independently by RMIT's schools, which are relevant to their fields of study, and are in addition to the collections of the RMIT University Library and RMIT International University's libraries. Notable collections housed by RMIT's schools include: 
AFI Research Collection Architecture and Australian Art Fashion and Textiles National Aerospace Resource Centre [edit] Galleries and arts program
RMIT University has six permanent art galleries. Five are located at the City campus: RMIT Gallery, RMIT School of Art Gallery, First Site Gallery, Project Space Gallery and Field 36 Gallery; and the Pitspace Gallery is located at the Bundoora campus. A number of smaller "art spaces" are also located across all campuses. The extensive arts program of RMIT often leads to the establishment of temporary galleries and public art exhibitions across all its campuses. The RMIT School of Art manages its own gallery along with the Project Space Gallery, the latter in conjunction with the RMIT School of Creative Media, which manages the Field 36 Gallery. RMIT School of Art and RMIT School of Creative Media galleries host exhibitions by RMIT students and its alumni as-well-as renowned Australian and international fine artists and media artists.[77][78] The First Site Gallery and the Pitspace Gallery are managed by the RMIT Union, and have an emphasis on innovative mult-discipline and cross-media exhibitions.[79] RMIT Gallery RMIT Gallery is the University's largest public art gallery, and boast one of Melbourne's broadest and most unique visual culture exhibition programs, which are all free to the public.[80] It presents exhibitions covering Australian and international design, including: contemporary art, design, fashion, architecture, craft, new media and technology; which reflect the University's strengths in research and cultural production.[81] The gallery is located in the historic original section of Story Hall, on Swanston Street. [edit] Student lifeRMIT Union and RMIT Student Union both run a large number of activities and clubs, and allow for social events and interaction between students. A large number of activities are run independently by students (often with support of the Student Union) and also within the University's respective colleges, notably: the student engineering team, RMIT Racing, the RMIT chapter of the Golden Key International Honour Society and the student-run organic food co-operative, Organarchy. RMIT is also notable for its student media organisations and students have a history of launching successful community broadcasters, including: radio stations 3RMT (which became 3RRR), SYN FM and television production facility RMITV. [edit] RMIT's unions
RMIT Union Union Arts is the organisation responsible for RMIT's various arts collectives, such as: Bossy Theatre Posse, Exhibitionists (fine art), Projector Obscura (media art), RMIT Music, RMIT Symphonic Orchestra, RMIT Concert Choir, RMIT Occasional Choral Society, SAMA (Japanese animation), Stream (audio visual art), Theatre in Bars and tRansMIT (sound art). The Union Sports teams, collectively known as the "Redbacks", are some of the best performers at the Australian University Games. Students are successful in the areas of: athletics, basketball, cycling, hockey, netball, rugby, soccer, squash, swimming, taekwondo, tennis, volleyball, water polo and cheerleading.[82][83] The Recreation arm of RMIT Union Sports & Recreation is responsible for a large number of student trips and tours, and is a shareholder in the Preston Alpine Ski Lodge on Mount Buller.[84] RMIT Student Union .jpg)
Separate from the RMIT Union, the independent RMIT Student Union was founded in 1944 (as the RMIT Students' Representative Council) and operates across all campuses. It is responsible for providing support to students and academic-based, non-arts and non-sporting orientated clubs and societies. The RMIT Student Union is affiliated with the National Union of Students of Australia. Other recreation areas, such as: the Womyn's Department, Queer Department, Environmental Department and RMIT International Students Collective are managed by the RMIT Student Union enhance student interaction. Postgraduate students are represented by the RMIT Postgraduate Association, which is affiliated with the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations. The RMIT Student Union also provides support to RMIT's various student media organisatons (RMITV, SYN FM, Catalyst), the student-run organic food co-operative, Organarchy, and is active in organising political campaigns, campus events and activities. [edit] Student mediaTelevision RMITV is one of the oldest community television organisations (and one of the few student television organisations) in Australia. It was originally responsible for the broadcast of "ETV", RMIT's closed-circuit television system at its City campus, and made its first open transmitted test broadcast in 1987. In 1995, it became a founding member of the Melbourne Community Television Consortium which launched the community television network C31 Melbourne. RMITV served as the in-house production facility for C31, when the channel was based at RMIT's City campus. When C31 moved to larger facilities in 2004, RMITV established itself as one of Australia's leading independent community television production houses. RMITV productions boast some of the highest budgets on community television and are often simulcast on community television networks across Australia.[85] RMITV also works closely with RMIT's radio station SYN FM to produce five hours of live youth music television. It also does not restrict the use of its facilities to only that of RMIT students, and allows students from other institutions, as well as members of the community, to also produce content (however most technical aspects of productions remain the responsibility of RMIT students).[85] Popular talkshow host Rove McManus and radio DJs Hamish and Andy began their media careers at RMITV. Radio stations The first radio station at RMIT began in 1976, broadcasting from RMIT's City campus on an educational licence, and was known as 3RMT. Due to its immediate popularity, it was granted a full radio licence on FM frequency 102.7 in 1978, moving to larger premises in Fitzroy and adopting it present name of 3RRR.[86] Today it operates from new studios near RMIT's Brunswick campus and is the largest subscribed community radio station in Australia.[86] It has continued to be supported by RMIT (but is now mainly funded though community subscription) and is utilised by its staff and students, as well as staff and students from the University of Melbourne and the general public. From 1979 till 2000, the RMIT Student Radio Association (SRA) operated independently within 3RRR, until it was awarded the new FM frequency licence 90.7 in 2001. It launched in 2003 as the Student Youth Network (SYN FM) at RMIT's City campus, becoming Melbourne's only independent youth media organisation.[87] Today SYN FM broadcasts on one of the largest community radio licences in Victoria and can be heard throughout Melbourne, Geelong as well as in parts of regional Victoria. It launched a television department in 2003 (responsible for producing five hours of live youth music television with RMITV each week for C31 Melbourne), a publication department in 2004 and a new media department in 2006.[87] 
Publications Catalyst is RMIT's student magazine and is distributed free every month across all campuses. The first edition of Catalyst was published by the Student Union predecessor, the RMIT Students’ Representative Council, and appeared on 18 May 1944. It's currently supported by the Student Union and by the sale of advertising space within the magazine. Editions of the magazine have also appeared under the names "Revolution Catalyst" and "The Unaustralian". Prior to funding losses due to the onset of Voluntary Student Unionism, a womyn's edition caled "Havoc", a queer edition called "Mutiny" and an environment edition called "Eccocentric" were also published. [edit] Other activitiesRMIT Racing RMIT's Formula SAE team, RMIT Racing, is considered one of the best in the world. Its most recent successes were in 2006 at the USA FSAE East Coast event, where it beat nine-time winner Cornell University and one of its own partner institutions Pennsylvania State University for the first place; and in 2007 when it was titled World Champion by FISITA (International Federation of Automotive Societies) after defeating 100 worldwide universities in eight separate races at the Formula Student UK competition.[88] [edit] AlumniNotable alumni of RMIT include: artists and sculptors (such as: the designer of Australia’s decimal coinage and the founders of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and the Australian Ballet School), authors and journalists, screenwriters and film makers (such as: the creators of the Saw film franchise), musicians and media personalities, fashion designers (such as: Prue Acton and Jenny Bannister), architects and industrial designers, and Victorian state as well as Australian federal government ministers. [edit] References | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
