Universidad Real Instituto de Tecnología de Melbourne - Melbourne, Victoria

Peter John

RMIT is a functioning university, While they can be helpful when absolutely necessary, I encountered two significant issues that left me frustrated and confused.

First, towards the end of my studies, I was informed that I couldn’t graduate due to some issue with my degree being in "teach-out"—a term I still don't fully understand. This delay was unexpected and poorly communicated.

Second, I missed one administrative payment because I was on holiday and didn’t check my emails for a month. Instead of reaching out directly, they referred my account to a debt collector, which I initially thought was a scam because it was just a recorded message. This situation could have negatively impacted my credit score. It would have been much more professional to contact students directly before escalating to debt collection.

While the lectures were decent and the course units were fine, the administration is what really lets RMIT down. If you’re considering RMIT, be aware of these potential issues. Personally, I’d recommend looking elsewhere. Good luck!

Mc Melon

Massive Thanks to Matty at student connect for his help and support today. His knowledge and advice was superior and very much appreciated. Looking forward to starting at RMIT in 2025

Scar

This university really really loves money and does not and will not care about student wellbeing. They will cherry pick international students and find the smallest mistakes to fail them on, read the other reviews for similar experiences. Save your money from this scam university and study elsewhere

Sab Ita

I studied an online course through this university and for the longest time I've debated if I should even write a review but I've decided I should. There were a few bumps along the way like modules not working, code in the modules not running, no next button on pages, difficulty submitting assessment and code as the buttons didn't work etc. During my course no one even believed me until week 7. This was very frustrating but luckily I had collected screenshots and evidence. It felt like I was the first person to actually sit through the course and do it, like no one even tested it before I used it. It wasn't functioning correctly and the user interface was frustrating and most of the links in the induction and the course didn't actually work.

For me the biggest issue was privacy. This university accesses your device camera and microphone. This was a huge concern for me and there were other people present and listening that were not directly introduced but present. This is completely illegal and I don't think they should be allowed to do so. Test it while the lecture is doing his thing and students don't have their camera or microphone on say something, doing something to test it. I noticed it because I sneezed and the lecturer said what happened and I thought how the heck is he hearing me right now when my camera and microphone are off. After that day I continued to find out the extent of their personal invasion into students lives.

While searching their website while being logged in I also stumbled across a complete log of my internet history including banking, sites I visited etc. They had monitored everything I did on my laptop. That's absolutely disgusting.

I stopped studying with them for the above reasons. What are they collecting, where is it being stored, who has access to it and why are they doing this? I decided this place wasn't for me.

Stevenson Hiram

Yeah, there are lots of arguments about this school. After reading lots of negative reviews, I decided to left something here to prove it is not as bad as some comments saying.
1. I am a student in Bachelor of Business (Accounting) and graduated at end of 2022.
2. I really appreciated RMIT offer me a chance to study here even with Covid-19 restriction, the staff still provides me lots of helps online. At 2022, when I back to campus, I felt their energy and passions.
3. Yeah, some of the courses in this Uni is quite difficult. But that's how university course looks like. If it is not challenging or difficult or everyone can do it without any efforts, why you pay thousands of dollars for study here?
4. Keep the good relationships with teachers is essential. You are just the student here.
5. Thanks again, RMIT.

Aparna Gogulapati

I don't like RMIT diploma civil Engeenering how the lectures are dealing or communication with the students. The Diploma teaching staff are one of the worst, very rude they are very eager to fail the student than teaching or supporting them, If student need a support they handel with very degrading way. The lecturers are not understanding if the student fails it's their teaching failure or problem.Very disappointed with the teaching staff.
I hope the RMIT management will look into this matter make changes with the teaching staff.

Tharusha Tharupathi

Low rated universities like edith cowan are way better than rmit. They make some courses so hard that 80% fail as a way to extort money. And i applied for second year but they gave me only two subjects exemption and had to waste a whole year. Worst university for bachelors comp science. Choose swinburne or deakin RMIT is just a scam trying to extort all money they can from you.

Ez Williams

I studied here for a while and found it to be disorganised. Last minute timetable changes made it really hard to balance work, classes being moved to other rooms without communication etc. Most of the teachers were enthusiastic and knowledgeable and the actual course work was good.