Overview
• The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England, formed in 2004 by the merger of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and the Victoria University of Manchester.
• The University of Manchester is a red brick university, a product of the civic university movement of the late 19th century.
• The university owns and operates major cultural assets such as the Manchester Museum, Whitworth Art Gallery, John Rylands Library and Jodrell Bank Observatory—a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• The university has 40,490 students and 10,400 staff, making it the second largest university in the UK and the largest single-site university.
• It has the fourth-largest endowment of any university in the UK, after the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Edinburgh.
• It is a member of the worldwide Universities Research Association, the Russell Group of British research universities and the N8 Group.
• Leeds and Bradford are an hour away from Manchester and London is two and a half hours by train.
• Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Salford are some of the other universities in the region.
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Things you should know
• According to the Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide (2019) Manchester is ranked 19th in the UK.
• The Guardian University Rankings 2019 places The University of Manchester in the top 50 universities of the year in the UK.
• The University of Manchester has 25 Nobel laureates among its past and present students and staff, the fourth-highest number of any single university in the United Kingdom.
• Four Nobel laureates are currently among its staff – more than any other British university.
• The university is ranked 27th in the world and 41st in Global Employability Ranking according to the QS ranking 2020.
• It is ranked 3rd in the world for Nursing, 11th for pharmaceutical, 18th for Dentistry, 21st for Accounting, Finance and Chemical Engineering, 32nd for material Sciences, between 51 and 100 for Computer Science and IT, Economics, mathematics and Biological Sciences, 38 for Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 41st for Civil Engineering and 35th for Mechanical Engineering according to the QS ranking 2020.
• It is ranked 55th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020 including 43rd in the world for Art and Humanities, 52nd for Engineering and TechnoLogy, 63rd for Life Science, 45th for Physical Sciences, 30th for Social Sciences, 37th for Business and Economics, 85th for Computing, 45th for Law, 63rd for Education and 72nd for Psychology.
• The Academic Ranking of World Universities 2019 ranks it 33rd.
• For the second year running the University is listed in the top ten European universities for teaching excellence in the 2019 Times Higher Education Europe Teaching Rankings.
• The University was ranked fifth best UK institution for employability in the 2018 Times Higher Education Global University Employability Ranking.
• Manchester’s societal impact has been ranked the best in Europe and third in the world by Times Higher Education based on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals framework by the 2019 Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings.
• Manchester was listed within the top 5 in the Reuters Top 100: Europe’s most innovative universities (2019).
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• John Dalton (founder of modern atomic theory) taught at the University.
• George E. Davis (founder of the discipline of chemical engineering) taught at the University Alan Turing (one of the founders of computer science and artificial intelligence) worked at the University.
• Robert Bolt (two times Academy Award winner and three times Golden Globe winner for writing the screenplay for Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago).
• Benedict Cumberbatch- Actor Sherlock homes.
• Dr Who, Michael D. Higgins-President of Ireland.
• Parineeti Chopra-Actor, Hindi Film Industry.
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