RMIT University (officially Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) is an Australian public 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 liaison centre in Europe located in Barcelona, Spain.
According to the 2015/16 QS World University Rankings, RMIT University was ranked 273 in the world.RMIT University was also ranked 20th in the world for art & design subjects,making it the top design school in Australia. It is also ranked 33rd in Architecture and in the top 100 universities globally in Accounting and Finance; Mechanical and Electrical Engineering; Computer Science and Information Systems.
The original Working Men's College of Melbourne was founded by Scottish-born grazier, politician and public benefactor the Hon. Francis Ormond.Initial planning began in 1881, with Ormond basing his model for the College on the Royal College of Art and the Working Men's College in London and antecedents of the present day University of London and University of Brighton.
Ormond donated the sum of £5000 toward the foundation of the College.He was supported in the Victorian Parliament by Charles Pearson and in the Melbourne Trades Hall by William Murphy.The workers' unions of Melbourne rallied their members to match Ormond's donation.The site for the College, on the corners of Bowen Street and La Trobe Street, opposite the Melbourne Public Library, was donated by the Victorian Government.
At the turn of the 21st century, RMIT was invited by the Vietnamese Government to establish the country's first foreign-owned university.Its first international branch campus opened in Ho Chi Minh City in 2001 and a second in Hanoi in 2004.In 2013, it established a modest presence in Barcelona.
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