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RMIT University (officially the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and sometime referred to as RMIT Australia and simply as RMIT) is an Australian university of technology and design based in Melbourne, Victoria.
RMIT was founded in 1887 by grazier, politician and public benefactor the Hon. Francis Ormond—as the Working Men's College of Melbourne. Its foundation campus is located in Melbourne City, and is a contiguous part of the northern area of the city centre.
It opened as a night school for instruction in art, science and technology—to support the industrialisation of Melbourne during the 19th century. It had an initial enrollment of 320 students. As of 2013, it has an enrollment of around 82,000 students across vocational, undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
In addition to its Melbourne City foundation campus, RMIT also has two radial campuses in the Melbourne metropolitan area—located in the northern suburbs of Bundoora and Brunswick; as well as training and research sites in the Melbourne metropolitan area and the Grampians state region—located in the western suburb of Point Cook and the town of Hamilton respectively. Outside Australia, it has two branch campuses in Asia—located in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, Vietnam; and a coordinating centre in Europe—located in Barcelona, Spain.
In 2013, according to the QS World University Rankings, RMIT was ranked the 291st university in the world. RMIT was also ranked among the top 51-100 universities in the world in the subjects of: accounting, communication and media studies, computer science and information systems.
RMIT is separated into two divisions: the Higher Education Division and Technical and Further Education (TAFE) Division. The divisions are responsible for RMIT's 24 academic schools (21 higher education schools including a graduate/professional school and three TAFE schools). The schools are grouped into three academic portfolios which are referred to as colleges. The higher education schools offer both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, while the TAFE schools offer vocational certificates and diplomas. In addition to its academic colleges, the University has a dedicated research portfolio. It contains RMIT's four major research institutes and specialist research school. The colleges and schools also contain a large number of research centres and groups, which are independent of the Portfolio of Research and Innovation, and focus on their respective academic areas.
