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Description

What is an associate degree?

An associate degree is a two year higher education qualification that can be undertaken after Year 12 or following a certificate III or IV. It offers a guaranteed pathway into a relevant bachelor degree.

Associate degrees are relatively new qualifications in Australia. The degrees are broad-based and graduates develop employment-related skills relevant to the discipline/s.

Why choose an RMIT associate degree?

Associate degree graduates will have diverse job opportunities in areas that may include mechanical design, aircraft systems and automotive manufacturing. Areas of employment include the automotive industry, computer design and manufacture, high-speed automation, aviation and biotechnology, engineering and management consultancy. Graduates will also be able to fill a diverse range of middle management positions.
Duration

Two years full-time or four years part-time.
Pathways

The Associate Degree in Engineering Technology (Design and Development) provides graduates with guaranteed entry into the third year of:
Bachelor of Engineering (Aerospace Engineering)
Bachelor of Engineering (Automotive)
Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering)

On successful completion of the program students will receive an associate degree qualification. Students will have also completed a number of vocational units that are relevant for the engineering industry.

Gaining credit for previous study or experience
Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) and credit transfer are ways that RMIT recognises applicants’ skills and knowledge gained through formal and informal education and training, work experience, and/or life experience (including volunteer work; committee responsibilities; family duties, hobbies).

Further information about gaining credit for previous study or experience

Further information about pathways
Career Prospects

Design and Development associate degree graduates will have diverse job opportunities in areas that may include mechanical design, aircraft systems and automotive manufacturing.

Areas of employment include the automotive industry, computer design and manufacture, high-speed automation, aviation and biotechnology, engineering and management consultancy. Graduates will also be able to fill a diverse range of middle management positions.
Entrance Requirements

Current Year 12 prerequisite units 3 & 4—English (any) and Mathematical Methods (either).

Non-Year 12 applicants are encouraged to apply and may be required to have relevant employment or evidence of experience and/or ability to meet the demands of the program.

Equity admissions schemes
RMIT understands that people’s backgrounds and circumstances can affect their access to education and training. RMIT’s equity admissions schemes allow applicants to explain the circumstances that have adversely affected their education, and demonstrate their capacity for future academic success.

Further information is available at equity admissions schemes

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Application Procedures

Semester one

Full-time/part-time applicants—VTAC application
Note: All applicants must comply with any extra requirements listed.

VTAC application
Applicants must apply through Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC) and are advised to check detailed information on entrance requirements, application procedures and closing dates. Applicants must meet all extra requirements and selection procedures listed through VTAC.

Application closing date: Late September
Further information:
Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC)
40 Park Street, South Melbourne
Tel. 1300 364 133
www.vtac.edu.au
Note: RMIT program codes listed on this page should not be used when applying through VTAC.

Semester two (midyear intake)

RMIT University has places available for the midyear intake in many TAFE and degree (bachelor and postgraduate) programs. From 1 May check to see if this program offers a midyear intake
Note: Applicants must confirm availability of program offered at midyear prior to applying. All applicants must complywith any extra requirements listed.

RMIT direct application
Applicants must apply directly to RMIT University using an RMIT direct application form.

Application closing date: 31 May
Further Information:
Info Corner (formerly Office for Prospective Students)
330 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Tel. 03 9925 2260
Email: study@rmit.edu.au
www.rmit.edu.au/programs/enquiries

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Fees

Degree

Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP)
A CSP is jointly funded by the Commonwealth Government and the student. In 2009, the fees ranged between $4,162 and $8,677 per year for a standard full-time program. The exact cost varies according to each course.

Changes to fee paying undergraduate places in 2009
The Australian Government has announced that it will phase out fee paying domestic undergraduate places from 1 January 2009 in public universities. However, the Government has announced that it will replace fee paying places with up to 11,000 new Commonwealth Supported Places (CSP) by 2011. Therefore, expectations are that there will be more HECS (Higher Education Contribution Scheme) places on offer at RMIT University in 2009.

There will be no full-fee places at RMIT University offered through VTAC (Victorian Tertiary Admission Centre) for new domestic students in undergraduate programs in 2009. There are some exceptions to the Government’s prohibition on new full-fee undergraduate places which will affect a very small number of students.

Further information is available at: www.rmit.edu.au/programs/fees/highered

Or you can go to the Federal Government’s Going To Uni web site www.goingtouni.gov.au or phone the hotline: 1800 020 108.

Scholarships

Record spend on RMIT scholarships
RMIT University will spend more than $60 million on student scholarships over the next five years. RMIT has many scholarships and funding opportunities to offer students.

Further information is available at RMIT Scholarships

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Program Structure

The following program structure(s) are linked to this program.
Contact Details

School of Engineering (TAFE)
Building 57, Level 5
115 Queensberry Street
Carlton VIC 3053
Tel. 03 9925 4468
Fax: 03 9925 4377

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Owning School

Engineering (TAFE)
Disclaimer

Although RMIT endeavours to ensure the accuracy of this information, there is no guarantee it will remain accurate all year. Applicants are advised to confirm program details with the appropriate school before making an application.

BA Interior Design

The program is shifted towards an Architectural orientation and it is also enriched with a broad Fine Art context. This allows a good balance of input between Architecture, Interior Design and Art. The BA Interior Design program is designed to prepare future professionals in the Interior Design field who will be functioning in the ever changing world of the new century. Students acquire sufficient knowledge, techniques and understanding of design which enables them to use it as a foundation both for employment and academic understanding. This program has been designed as the distinctive design of objects and space appropriate to their physical and social contexts. The program occupies a territory which will overlap other related fields: the precised ergonomic and hand-contact focus of furniture and product design; the transient and heightened atmospheric world of theatre design; the strategic thinking and client centered perspectives of trend forecasters, graphic designers and management consultancy; the conceptual strengths of contemporary performance and sculpture and the timeless universal qualities of architecture. The program also introduces and orientates students towards new technologies which not only reflect changes in innovative teaching and learning practices but also the international industrial market place.

The program aims:

To educate and produce graduates who will become professional practitioners with informed basic technical proficiency and firmly established critical perspectives.
To integrate theory and practice at every level with a view to satisfying the steadily expanding demands for the improvement of the interior of the build environment.
To provide right dimensions of cultural issues which arise from the design technologies in the context of social functions, the purposes they may serve and the behavior of the personnel using them.

The objectives of the program are:

to enable students to demonstrate a high level of FAMILIARISATION at Year One, THINKING at Year Two, CREATIVE IDEAS at Year Three and CONCEPTS at Year Four.
to enable students to demonstrate a high level of EXPERIMENTATION at Year One, LOOKING at Year Two, AESTHETICS AND DESIGN at Year Three and DESIGN SOLUTIONS at Year Four.
to enable students to demonstrate a high level of EXPLORATION at Year One, DOING/MAKING at Year Two, APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY at Year Three and PRODUCTION at Year Four.

Advantages for the holders of the BA in Interior Design:

Possess an accredited BA degree.
Become fully qualified for a promising career in the Interior Design field. They have all the capabilities to operate their own Design Studio or be employed as senior designers in Architectural or Interior Design Studios.