Use your advanced research skills to further the growth and development of computer science.

As a computer science research candidate, you have the flexibility to pursue an individual topic, or contribute to one of our existing research areas.

Computer science candidates may be eligible for a range of scholarships including:

• Australian Postgraduate Awards - funded by the Australian Government
• PhD and Research Masters Scholarships - funded by RMIT University
• PhD scholarships in computer science and IT - funded by the School of Science
• other postgraduate research scholarships

You will join an active research community and work with academics, peers and partner organisations who have demonstrated research success in a range of specialities, including:

• data engineering and analysis
• distributed systems and networking
• artificial intelligence
• heuristic optimisation
• information retrieval and web search
• software engineering

RMIT's success is demonstrated in international university rankings, with computer science at RMIT being placed in the top 200 universities in the Shanghai Jiao Tong rankings and joint sixth in Australia for computer science and information systems in the 2015 QS World University rankings. The Australian Research Council identified our research in Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing and Information Systems as above world standard in the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) reports.

You will be able to pursue an academic career in a university, be employed in senior leadership, management and research positions in government, scientific and industrial research laboratories, or work in or start high tech companies.

On completion, our candidates have gone on to senior positions with industry leaders including SENSIS, Seek, CSIRO and Tinder.