RMIT is a global university of technology and design and Australia’s largest tertiary institution. The University enjoys an international reputation for excellence in practical education and outcome-oriented research.
RMIT is a leader in technology, design, global business, communication, global communities, health solutions and urban sustainable futures. We are ranked in the top 100 universities in the world for engineering and technology in the 2011 QS World University Rankings.
RMIT has three campuses in Melbourne, Australia, and two in Vietnam. We offer programs through partners in Singapore, Hong Kong, mainland China, Malaysia, India and Europe.
We enjoy research and industry partnerships on every continent.The University’s student population of 74,000 includes 30,000 international students, of whom more than 17,000 are taught offshore (almost 6,000 at RMIT Vietnam).
RMIT began as the Working Men’s College in 1887, “to bring knowledge within reach.†Its mission grew from the concept of education as a democratic ideal; it resulted in an education forged in the heat of real-world experience.
The 817 students who studied at the Working Men’s College in 1887 would eventually stand with almost 200,000 who have since graduated from RMIT University. Today, more than 63,000 students study at RMIT campuses and sites in Melbourne and regional Victoria, in Vietnam, online, by distance education, and at partner institutions throughout the world.
RMIT is a Public Institute. The field trip is an international team-based block of fieldwork dedicated to geographical analysis and mapping and the development of an appreciation of a developing country.
The project aims to provide a group of Geomatics students' exposure to undertaking field work in a foreign country. The activity is part of an ongoing commitment by RMIT Geospatial Science staff to provide an International curriculum for our students.
First up, ratings are not a measure of excellence, but a measure of preference among program offerings. It is a competition between the sometimes incomparable, a measure of bulk taste rather than program excellence and, sometimes, an index of how mindless we need to be for part of the day to survive the other realities offered by television.
And second, there is the matter of errors. Like the doggy-do on the sole of a shoe that no one will own-up to wearing, any mention of the systemic errors of the television ratings leaves a distinct social faux par on the deep Axminster of the station programmer’s office.
Ratings are measured, assessed would perhaps be a better word, with the assistance of some 3,035 households across metropolitan Australia, in the five mainland capital cities, and about 2,000 in regional areas and Hobart.
A further approximately 1,200 households are surveyed for pay-TV data.It must be a continuing insult to such Hobart folk who give it a thought, that their state capital rate only regional status to the Sydney-based Oztam ratings agency.
Ratings are measured in 10 blocks of four weeks each, excluding the 10 weeks across Christmas and two weeks either side of Easter. While Channel Seven must hate the lack of formal ratings recognition for the Australian Open tennis coverage in January, they have used the coverage as a showcase of their year’s programming to good effect.
The data is collected by a kind of set top box that records what program is being viewed at minute intervals and stores the data, to be automatically downloaded to the Oztam computer, using the home telephone line and a silent ring, in the dead of night.
Location & Facilities
Campuses and maps
RMIT University has three campuses around Melbourne and two in Vietnam, in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi
Melbourne city
Covering architecture, design, media and communications, engineering, physical science and social science.
Brunswick
Focusing on design including textiles, printing, and education.
Bundoora
Specialising in engineering, biosciences, education and medical sciences including pharmacy and Chinese medicine.
Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh City
World-class learning and teaching facilities located in South Saigon.
Hanoi
Modern learning space, leading-edge technology and library facilities.
Safety and security
RMIT security provides a 24 hour security presence on campus.
- report an emergency
- book an escort to your car or public transport
- arrange for after-hours building access
- Personal safety plan
- Evacuation procedures
- Watch Emergency Procedures at RMIT
- Book a space
- Building access
- Parking
- Sport and fitness facilities
- BBQ areas
- Cafeterias
- Police
- Ambulance
- Fire Brigade
The Student Wellbeing services are free and aim to provide information and support to international students.
Student Wellbeing Advisors can provide assistance with:
- housing advice
- financial management
- making cultural and social adjustments
- studying successfully.
They can:
- help us settle into studying at RMIT and living in Melbourne
- help us understand what is expected of us as a student
- explain University policies and procedures
- help us deal with life’s challenges and develop options for handling them
- support us when unexpected things happen.
They can also:
- provide contact for AusAID and sponsored students
- connect students to other Student Services for specialist advice and finding resources in the community.
Wellbeing Services recommends that students make contact as soon as there is a need. Usually more time means more options will be available.