Which Open Day is right for you?

Which Open Day is right for you?

RMIT Open Day is your chance to get firsthand experience with your future university. But what’s the difference between each campus and which is right for you?

Open Day is all about discovering your future, at RMIT we’re confident our Open Day will do more than that – you’ll experience hands-on learning and see the difference it makes. To help you prepare we’re giving you a glimpse of what’ll be there on the day.  

RMIT has three Open Day events in August, one at each of our three Melbourne campuses – Bundoora, Brunswick and City. Here's just a glimpse of what'll be there on the day. 

Students exploring RMIT's City campus on Open DayGet firsthand experience of RMIT's campuses on Open Day
Student's discuss Access and Inclusion at RMIT at Open DayDiscover what your future study will look and feel like

What's the difference between each campus?

Each of our campuses is amazing in their own way, and each offers different study areas and facilities.   

Our iconic RMIT Melbourne City campus has facilities covering many different study areas and is located in the heart of Melbourne. There are inspiring spaces at our Brunswick campus that focus on fashion, and you won’t want to miss the high-tech marvels of the Bundoora campus, which caters to health, building, education and more. Also at the Bundoora campus is our Bundoora Trades Innovation Centre, you won’t want to miss a chance to check it out.   

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Here's a quick breakdown of exactly which study areas are offered at each of our campuses: 

Bundoora 

 

Brunswick 

 

Melbourne City 

The city campus has facilities and information sessions about all RMIT study areas. You’ll find everything from Architecture to Business to Engineering. 

What to do when you arrive

If you’re arriving at RMIT Open Day and aren’t sure where to go first, stop in at the Welcome Marquee. Psst… you can get an RMIT tote bag and event guide there which will save you a lot of time and help you navigate the campus.   

The Welcome Marquees will be positioned near high traffic entrances to each of our campuses, so keep your eye out as you arrive on the day. 

A prize wheel at the RMIT Open Day on the City campus

Remember: If you’re ever feeling lost while on-campus check Google Maps. Each RMIT building is listed on Google for your convenience.

Open Day highlights and activities

Only at RMIT Open Day will you see your future come to life right before your eyes. To give you an idea of what to expect, here are some highlights that you can expect to see and experience at RMIT's Open Days.

Bundoora

The Bundoora campus is full of high-tech marvels and sprawling open spaces focusing on building and trades, biomedical sciences, education, health and food science.

Building and Property

Trade Innovation Centre - Get hands-on with trade tools! Tour our state-of-the-art Trades Innovation Centre and experience purpose-built workshops and high-tech training spaces.   
 
Join an interactive trade workshops, from measuring distances with lasers in the surveying  workshop to exploring how power and cooling systems work together in the electrical workshop. 

Two students and a teacher in a biomedical science lab at the RMIT Bundoora campus
Students and teachers at a workbench in the Trades Innovation Centre
Health and Biomedical science 

Digital Human Bioscience facility - Visit our modern, technology-integrated Digital Human Bioscience facilities and see where RMIT students develop their bioscience skills and experiences. 

Health and Biomedical Sciences Labs Tour - Join a tour of our health and biomedical sciences labs led by your future teachers. Get a glimpse of our cutting-edge facilities, including the Medical Radiations, Nursing and more.  

Education

Early Childhood REC Lab & Student Led Panels - Visit the RMIT Early Childhood Interactive REC Lab and hear from current students about their study experiences. 

This is the perfect opportunity to see where students develop their teaching skills and discover what’s it's really like to study education at RMIT.

Brunswick

The Brunswick campus is an inspiring learning space focused on fashion.

Fashion 

Makers Market – Explore an RMIT alumni and current student market where you can browse and buy inspiring designs. Get a firsthand look at how our students and graduates utilise the skills they developed at RMIT.

Vote for your Favourite Tote - Explore more than 120 student-designed tote bags and phone pouches. Vote for your favourite bag and guess how much each cost to make! 

Re-Imaging Fashion Futures - How do you picture the future of fashion? Join a workshop where you’ll be redesigning and reimagining the contents of a fashion magazine at Brunswick Open Day.   

Knit and Weave - Take a seat at one of our flatbed knitting machines or weaving looms and have a go! Try your hand at tools used by our students to create garments, objects and woven structures. 

The fashion facilities at the RMIT Brunswick campus
Two arts students working in a studio with prints on a wall behind them

Collective Crafting - Discover how RMIT turns fashion waste into a thing of beauty.  Join a workshop where you’ll repurpose leftover fabric from our Fashion Design Industry Techniques course to help create a collective quilt. 

Stitch and Textile Play - Pick up a new skill by learning some simple hand-stitching techniques. Craft yourself a small creation, such as a brooch, glasses case, or small coin bag. 

Design-led Clothing Alterations - Discover how fashion experts creatively enhance and alter clothes in RMIT Brunswick’s Advanced Fashion and Textiles Design studios. Then get hands-on and try the techniques yourself. 

Fashion Styling Interactive Experience - Step into the spotlight and be styled by RMIT experts and students using a curated selection of garments and accessories, then take your look to the runway for a photo op. 

Textile Playground: Print and Dye - Explore a world of colours in a workshop where you’ll be working with natural dyes grown in RMIT’s Waa Weelum dye garden. 

City

Our iconic Melbourne City campus lets you explore our sprawling campus in the heart of the CBD.

Architecture 

Portfolio workshop - Join a creative folio workshop to learn more about the Bachelor of Landscape Architectural Design. Discover the best ways to communicate your creative thinking and design processes, and experiment with different forms of presentation, from sketches to digital work.  

VENTUROUS - See innovative architectural designs at 'VENTUROUS' . This exhibit showcases groundbreaking and experimental designs by RMIT PhD students from the last decade.   

Art  

Intercessions: On-Site with Axel Garay - Challenge your senses with 'Intercessions'. This exhibit will make you consider how the ‘algorithmic age’ is affecting our ability to immerse ourselves in our surroundings. This thought-provoking exhibit showcases work by RMIT postgraduate candidates!   

The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt - Discover how scholarship has shaped the discussion surrounding one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.  Experience ‘The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt' to learn how discussion and the circulation of ideas affect art.   

Business  

Mock lectures - Get a feel for university life by attending a mock business lecture led by RMIT teachers. This is your chance to explore how we teach and get a glimpse of what your future study could look and feel like!  

MarTech Lab - Get hands-on in our cutting-edge marketing technology facilities. See how customer experiences are crafted using pop-up retail stores, AI tech, immersive projections, and integrated analytics capabilities.   

Two students in the RMIT Trading Facilities
Four students working on architectural designs in a bright study space
Communication 

Influence Challenge - Do you know what rhetorical techniques work on you? Take our Influence Challenge and see how media, creators, organisations and social platforms shape what earns your trust and discover your own “influence style”.  

Design

Digital Design Workshop Series - Explore the world of digital design in fast-paced workshops. Discover the fundamentals of user experience design in UX Frenzy, delve into motion design with Motion Fundamentals, learn how audio shapes storytelling in Sound for Vision, and get an intro to digital modelling in Intro to 3D.  

Future of Design - Design is already shaping the world around you, but where is it going next? Don’t miss the thought-provoking conversations we’ll be holding with lead RMIT design experts.  Across three different sessions, they’ll be exploring how new tech and trends are shaping the future of design.  

Game Interaction Workshop - Join staff from RMIT's Games program to get a feel for how you can work in game engines to produce fun interaction between assets in 3D space!  

Graphic Design Studios and Makerspace - Visit our Graphic Design studios to see what creating at RMIT actually looks like. Get a firsthand look at our graphic design facilities and student projects, experience makerspace demonstrations, and chat with teaching staff and current students.  

Industrial Design - Sustainability and manufacturing combine at RMIT’s Industrial Design studios. Join a live classroom where everyday objects are pulled apart to reveal how they can be redesigned with sustainability in mind.  

A student wearing a VR headset battles a robot with a light sabre
Two students walking down a street drinking matcha
Engineering 

Electric and Electronic Engineering Demos - See electrical and electronic engineering in action.  Get a glimpse of the engineering marvels of tomorrow from distributed computing and multi-threading demos to industrial automation and photonic chips.  

Environment 

Regenerative Futures Institute (RFI) - Visit the RFI and add to our 'regenerative future' map. Everyone who participates receives RFI-branded loot and a doughnut!  

Health 

Enrolled Nursing - Tour the Diploma of Nursing facilities at our City campus, where you’ll experience our interactive simulation laboratory, and see our immersive, patient simulating, nursing manikins!  

Information Technology 

Immersive Technologies Lab - Come to the VX Lab to see a mix of mind-blowing tech and student projects, including soccer-playing robots and a 360-VR experience.    

Law 

Law Tour and Moot Court - Explore the spaces where future lawyers prepare for the real thing. Tour our Law Building and step into the Moot Court to see how students develop their voice, test their thinking and experience law beyond the lecture.  

Media  

Journalism on Air - Go on a guided, interactive tour of the TV studios in RMIT's state of the art Media Precinct. You’ll even be able to try your hand at reading a real news bulletin from an autocue.    

Assemblage - See how Assemblage, RMIT’s in-house student publication, gets made at our Bowen Street Press!   

Art of Sampling - Discover the art of music sampling. Lecturers from RMIT's Music Industry degree will be holding a session where they twist a well-known commercial tune into something new.  

A student working in a science lab full of chemistry equipment
Two students working in an audio engineering space at RMIT
Science 

Into the Labs - Explore RMIT’s science labs throughout the City campus. It’s not just electron microscopes; you’ll see physics and space facilities, water- testing equipment, a chemistry magic show, and biotech wonders.  

Social and Community 

Learn a language - Open Day isn’t just a place to experience your future; you can also pick up handy new skills. Join a short language learning session and discover the basics of Chinese, French, Japanese, German or Spanish.

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Each of our Open Day events will have a Student Club Hub where you can learn about the different clubs and societies at RMIT. 

Whether you’re after adventure, want to meet new people, build skills to complement your studies, or just pursue something you love, RMIT has a club or society to suit your style. Here’s what will be available at each campus: 

Brunswick

  • Fashion Society 
  • K-Pop Club 
  • Yoga & Meditation Club 

Bundoora 

  • Badminton Club 
  • Bioscience Society 
  • Board Games Assoc. 
  • Hockey Club  
  • Indian Club 
  • Medical Radiations Student Ass. 
  • Osteopathic Medicine Assoc. 
  • Physio Assoc. 
  • Sailing Club 
  • Satellite Club 
  • Surfing Club 

City 

  • Advanced Robotics Club (Battlebots) 
  • Applied Chemistry & Enviro Science Society 
  • Band Society 
  • Cheerleading Club 
  • Chess Club 
  • Computer Sci & IT Society 
  • Creative Connect 
  • Drama Club 
  • Enviro Engineering Student Assoc. 
  • Esports Club 
  • Females+ in Engineering 
  • Games Manga & Anime Society 
  • History League 
  • Lion Dance Club 
  • Mechanical & Auto Engineering Assoc. 
  • Motorsport  
  • Society of Women in IT 
  • Uncrewed Aircraft Systems 
  • Visible Ink 
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We hope that these highlights have you excited for Open Day! Register now and we will send you even more sneak peeks of what's to come – by registering, you’ll also go in the draw to win one of our cash prizes!    

Story: Jacob Johnston

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