After merging with the Phillip Institute of Technology in 1992, it became a public university by act of the Victorian Government under theRoyal Melbourne Institute of Technology Act 1992. Phakathi 1990, the university underwent a rapid expansion and amalgamated with a number of nearby colleges and institutes. The Melbourne College of Decoration and Design joined RMIT in 1993, to create a new dedicated design TAFE school, followed by the Melbourne College of Printing and Graphic Arts in 1995. That same year, it opened its first radial campus in Bundoora in the northern Melbourne metropolitan area. in 1999, it acquired the Melbourne Institute of Textiles campus in Brunswick in the inner-northern Melbourne metropolitan area for its design TAFE schools. "liphelile ixesha lamandulo apho thina bantu bantsundu senziwe izikorobo ngenxa yokuba kusithiwa asoze silingane nabamhlophe. ndifunde lukhulu kulomama, eyona mfundiso endiyithathileyo, yeyokuba asikho isidingo somelana nodlame lwabamhlophe kuze siphumelele. usibuyisele amandla ethu usisi lebohang mabuya.