Exchange and Study Abroad enrolment guide – Inbound students

There are two ways students from overseas can study at RMIT Melbourne – Exchange and Study Abroad. Your offer will indicate which program you’ve been accepted into, based on whether your home institution has an exchange agreement with RMIT. 

• Exchange - for students coming from an overseas institution that does have an exchange agreement with RMIT
• Study Abroad – for students coming from an overseas institution that does not have an exchange agreement with RMIT.

Before you can enrol for Exchange or Study Abroad studies in Melbourne, you must have:

• received and accepted your offer
• received your course request outcome.

To enrol in courses you’ll be undertaking during your Exchange or Study Abroad in Melbourne, log in to Enrolment Online and follow the steps in the Higher education enrolment guide – International students. 

Note: As part of the enrolment process, you will need to provide an Australian mailing address. If you haven’t found any accommodation in Melbourne yet, please use the following address as your mailing address: RMIT, 124 La Trobe Street, Melbourne VIC 3000.

Important information for your enrolment

• Use ‘Class search’ to search and add classes stated in your course request outcome 

• As part of your visa conditions, you must be enrolled in 48 credit points per semester, unless approval has been given for 36 credit points
• You may enrol in courses not listed in your Course Request Outcome if the courses have no prerequisite requirements and are available in Enrolment Online. For courses with prerequisites, attend the Academic Advising Session on Orientation Day or submit an enquiry to the relevant RMIT School or College.

• Student Exchange at RMIT – your home institution has a reciprocal (exchange) agreement with RMIT. As an inbound Exchange student, you pay tuition fees for your studies to your home institution, not to RMIT.
• Study Abroad at RMIT – your home institution doesn’t have a reciprocal (exchange) agreement. As a Study Abroad student, you’re responsible for paying the applicable tuition fees directly to RMIT upon accepting your offer into the Study Abroad program.

Update your contact details

It’s important that the contact details on your student record are up to date. Once you have found permanent accommodation in Melbourne, update your residential address by following the instructions to update your personal details.

Extend or cancel your Exchange or Study Abroad studies

If you want to extend or cancel your Exchange or Study Abroad studies, contact RMIT Global Learning.

Once the results have been released for your RMIT semester, you will be given access to your free, certified digital transcript in My eQuals. You will receive an email from My eQuals to your personal email address (the one on your RMIT student record) with instructions to view and share your transcript.  

You will then need to share your RMIT academic transcript directly with your home institution. If your home institution asks for RMIT to provide them with your transcript, please ask them to contact RMIT Global Learning at global.learning@rmit.edu.au.

If you need help with the enrolment process, contact Student Connect and log an enquiry through ‘Ask about enrolment’. 

If you have any other questions about this study arrangement, go to ‘Ask about studying overseas’.