2019 Highlights

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2019 Highlights.

Staff engagement steady at 56%.

Net Promoter Score up 2 points in 2019.

Dhumbah Goorowah our second reconciliation plan launched.

Revitalisation of our values.

$1m CSIRO partnership funds health transformation lab.

50,000+ alumni engaged through mentoring industry experiences and learning opportunities.

4 European funding applications with RMIT Vietnam on blockchain, climate change and ageing.

Strong partnership with Vietnam government.

Oxford Scholar restored / The Capitol reborn.

24,600+ students graduating in 2019.

New research and innovation enterprise-wide model.

4 HR AI bots live with 2,500+ HR assist requests processed.

Athena SWAN Bronze Award (SAGE) / 2019 Employer of Choice Gender Equality.

Redbacks win Spirit Trophy for the 2nd year and …

4 teams become national champions at UniSport Nationals.

RMIT labs transformed with new state-of-the-art microscopes.

VE workplace agreement 85% yes vote / MoU education partner of Telstra.

Investing in Vietnam’s facilities and technology.

Wurrunggi Biik Law of the Land.

RMIT Online short courses launch in Singapore.

New health and wellbeing strategy.

RMIT graduates rated most work-ready.

96% of industry partners want to continue with us.

Playbooks developed for Vietnam, China and Singapore.

7,000+ students studying in Vietnam.

2x Vice-Chancellor’s Indigenous Pre-Doctoral Fellowships.

66% of staff actively pursuing their reconciliation journey.

RMIT 3rd among world’s best universities for blockchain research.

QS World University Rankings: 238th globally, up 12 places from 2019.

US News Best Global Universities: 315th globally, up 220 places from 2012.

Academic Ranking of World Universities: 354th globally, up 133 places from 2016.

Times Higher Education World University Rankings: 391st globally, up 60 places from 2019.

QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2020: 77th globally.

Inaugural Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings 2019: 82nd globally.

Program transformation: Increased authentic assessment, work-integrated learning and digital uplift.

ARC’s ERA results: 16 fields rated ‘well above world standard’ and 21 rated ‘above world standard’.

ARC’s EI assessment: 90% impact case studied rated as making significant/highly significant contribution beyond academia.

Categories 2–4 HERDC revenue up 42%.

Microsurgery on 2,141 courses.

231 How2RMIT orientation sessions: 6,397 students, 98% of students better prepared for life at RMIT.

RMIT + AWS Academy cloud computing courses.

Industry mentoring: 4,549 experiences YTD, up 2,394 from last year.

Project Pi kicked off.

18.5% uplift in student numbers in Vietnam.

Partner of Australia’s SmartSac CRC $110m collaboration.

Leading ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society: $31.8m government funding, $38m partner funding.

Leading ARC Training Centre for Transforming Australia’s Biosolids Resource Management: $3.9, government funding, $9m partner funding.

Partner in ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems: $34.9m government funding, $35.4m partner organisations.

Embedded Creds in 207 courses and 105 programs.

Launched Yammer: 48% uptake.

RMIT Connect’s AI chatbot live.

11,823 Creds enrolments.

Global pricing policy implemented.

ACMI major research partnership.

15,000 Redbacks.

Launched Sir Lawrence Wackett Centre.

RMIT Online 11% annual growth.

RMIT number 1 Victorian university for student engagement: 2020 Good University’s Guide.

2020, let’s finish what we started.