RMIT University

A public research university in Melbourne, Australia, RMIT University is formally known as the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT).

RMIT was established as a night school in 1887 by Francis Ormond in response to the industrial boom in Australia. Classes in art, science, and technology were offered. In 1992, it merged with the Phillip Institute of Technology to become a public university, after having been a private institution for more than a hundred years before. It is also one of the richest institutions in Australia, with an annual income of about A$1.5 billion. In the QS World Institution Rankings, it is placed 15th for art and design disciplines, making it the top art and design university in Australia and Oceania. It is rated a five-star university by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) and is rated a five-star university by QS.[1]

Located on the northern border of Melbourne's historic Hoddle Grid, the RMIT main campus is home to more than 30,000 students and faculty members. As well as a main campus in Melbourne, the university maintains two satellite campuses in the city's northern suburbs of Brunswick and Bundoora, as well as a training facility at the Royal Australian Air Force Williams base in the western suburbs of Point Cook. A training facility is located at Bendigo Airport in the Victorian city of Bendigo, while a research facility is located near the Grampians National Park in the town of Hamilton. Across Asia, it has two branch campuses, one each in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, as well as a training centre in Da Nang, Vietnam, as well as teaching relationships with institutions in countries such as China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, and Sri Lanka, among other places. A research and cooperation centre is located in the Spanish city of Barcelona, which is the company's international headquarters.[2]

## References[edit]

1. ↑ "QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021 - Art and Design". Quacquarelli Symonds.
2. ↑ "History of RMIT". RMIT University. Retrieved 4 April 2020.