Our strategy to 2031 sets out RMIT's ambitions for accessible lifelong education, impactful research and innovation, and an inclusive, sustainable future. It guides how we use our knowledge, skills and capabilities to make a difference in the world.
We aim to lead in four key areas:
Our strategy is built around three connected directions that reflect RMIT’s mission as a dual-sector university and our role in the community.
Together they link learning and teaching, research and innovation, and civic engagement.
Goal: Build a coherent, connected lifelong learning system. Goal: An inclusive and high-performing workplace.
Goal: Extend RMIT’s dynamic research and innovation system.
Goal: Grow civic partnership at scale. Goal: Be a leading university of impact in the Asia Pacific.
Knowledge with Action is a nine-year strategy delivered in three-year horizons so we can adapt and respond to new opportunities and challenges.
In our second horizon (2026-2028), RMIT will be bolder in how we shape the future of tertiary education and research.
We will focus on four connected themes:
Innovative learning models, and qualifications that can be attained while working, will make education and career opportunities more accessible.
Partnerships with industry, government and community are in RMIT’s DNA. We will deepen integration across RMIT.
We will leverage our places to drive innovation, skills, economic development, partnerships and local responses connected to global networks.
We will invest in supporting, enabling and empowering our people, who are central to RMIT’s success and community impact.
From 2026, RMIT will begin working on nine Signature initiatives that bring our strategy to life across education, research and civic engagement.
These multi-year initiatives are designed to amplify our impact and create lasting change.
RMIT's Education Plan operationalises Horizon 2 of Direction 1: Learning through life and work.
Across six action areas, it outlines how we will support our learners to achieve their aspirations, embrace technological change and opportunity across the world and in the workforce, and navigate their life and career.
The Decadal Aspirations support the delivery of Direction 2: Research and Innovation for Impact. The document outlines nine aspirations with recommendations to strengthen how RMIT and our partners create value through knowledge exchange and research translation.
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
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