[59] The university currently employs four Nobel Prize winners amongst its staff, more than any other in the UK. The athletic union was formed at Owens College in 1885 from four clubs: rugby, lacrosse, cricket and tennis.
Most members have gained a Full Maroon for representing the university and many have excelled at a British Universities or National level.
The observatory's Lovell Telescope is named after Sir Bernard Lovell, a professor at the Victoria University of Manchester who first proposed the telescope.

Beyer funded the total cost of construction of the Beyer building to house the biology and geology departments. We encourage you to become the best you can be and to make a difference in the real world by participating in Stellify – a journey through Manchester’s most transformational academic and extracurricular activities to help you stand out and make your mark. Manchester University Press is the university's academic publishing house. [49] In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, the university was ranked fifth in the UK in terms of research power and fifteenth for grade point average quality of staff submitted among multi-faculty institutions (seventeenth when including specialist institutions)[50][51] Manchester has the sixth largest research income of any English university (after Oxford, UCL, Cambridge, Imperial and King's College London),[52] and has been informally referred to as part of a "golden diamond" of research-intensive UK institutions (adding Manchester to the Oxford–Cambridge–London "Golden Triangle"). To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. Today, the museum continues to occupy part of one side, including the tower. There were many Germans on the staff, including Carl Schorlemmer, Britain's first chair in organic chemistry, and Arthur Schuster, professor of Physics. After the Oxford and Cambridge rivalry, the Christie's Championships is the oldest Inter–University competition on the sporting calendar: the cup was a benefaction of Richard Copley Christie. [80] Manchester was also given a prestigious award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts by the Times Higher Education Awards 2010. The main campus is south of Manchester city centre on Oxford Road. [60] The Langworthy Professorship, an endowed chair at the University's Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been historically given to a long line of academic luminaries, including Ernest Rutherford (1907–19), Lawrence Bragg (1919–37), Patrick Blackett (1937–53) and more recently Konstantin Novoselov, all of whom have won the Nobel Prize. The safety and wellbeing of our students, staff and visitors are our highest priority. [17] The Victoria University of Manchester and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology agreed to merge into a single institution in March 2003.[18][19]. It is centrally located in the city and its buildings are integrated into the fabric of Manchester, with non-university buildings and major roads between. Manchester University Press. Our pioneering taught courses draw upon our world-leading research and our strong links to global industry. The former UMIST Campus has four halls of residence near to Sackville Street building (Weston, Lambert, Fairfield, and Wright Robinson). [64] In October 1995 the Mezzanine Court in the centre of the building was opened. [78], According to The Sunday Times in 2006, "Manchester has a formidable reputation spanning most disciplines, but most notably in the life sciences, engineering, humanities, economics, sociology and the social sciences". John Owens, a textile merchant, left a bequest of £96,942 in 1846 (around £5.6 million in 2005 prices)[11] to found a college to educate men on non-sectarian lines. [12][13] Manchester mill owner, Thomas Ashton, chairman of the extension movement had studied at Heidelberg University. The papyri are in ancient languages and include the oldest extant New Testament document, Rylands Library Papyrus P52, commonly known as the St John Fragment. On 25 June 2015 The University of Manchester announced the results of a review of the position of life sciences as a separate faculty. However, Manchester did enter a year later and won University Challenge 2012. [42], Manchester Dental School was rated the country's best dental school by Times Higher Education in 2010 and 2011[43] and it is one of the best funded because of its emphasis on research and enquiry-based learning approach. [83] The Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics comprises the University's astronomical academic staff in Manchester and Jodrell Bank Observatory on rural land near Goostrey, about ten miles (16 km) west of Macclesfield. [1] During the 2010/11 financial year the University of Manchester had a capital expenditure of £57.42 million (2009/10 – £37.95 million). Our reputation for education and innovation resonates across the world. His will also funded Engineering chairs and the Beyer Professor of Applied mathematics. In the financial year ending 31 July 2011, the University of Manchester had a total income of £808.58 million (2009/10 – £787.9 million) and total expenditure of £754.51 million (2009/10 – £764.55 million). The less easily accessed Rear Quadrangle, dating mostly from 1873, is older in its completed form than the Old Quadrangle. The next year, the university finished in second place after losing to the University of Warwick in the final. 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You couldn’t find a better place in which to begin your life's work. Boost your career prospects by studying on one of our CPD courses. A consequence of the triangular design was a reduced cost for the construction company. Notable scientists associated with the university include physicists Ernest Rutherford, Osborne Reynolds, Niels Bohr, James Chadwick, Arthur Schuster, Hans Geiger, Ernest Marsden and Balfour Stewart. The medical college was established in 1874 and is one of the largest in the country,[38] with more than 400 medical students trained in each clinical year and more than 350 students in the pre-clinical/phase 1 years. ", "National Archives Currency Converter ~ 1850", "Owens College:it's foundation and growth", "Manchester merger creates UK's largest university", "President and Vice-Chancellor to retire", "Huge funding boost for graphene Institute", "BP invests in UK research to help it drill deeper", "Research facility will explore materials use in energy sector", "BP Pledges $100 Million to UK-Led Universities to Create Industry-Changing Materials", "List Entry Summary – Samuel Alexander Building", "Manchester Academic Health Science Centre", "Expertscape: Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive, November 2018", "School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (University of Manchester)", "Facts and figures (Dentistry – University of Manchester)", "Tour of the School: gallery (Dentistry – University of Manchester)", "Why international students should study at The University of Manchester", "Leading economist joins Manchester Business School", "Colm Tóibín takes over teaching job from Martin Amis", "University Research Excellence Framework 2014 – the full rankings", "Research Excellence Framework 2014: Overall Ranking of Institutions", "Recurrent grants for academic year 2018-19", "Medical Research Council – Recipients of funding", "Who is best endowed? The building on Devas Street was completed in 1999 incorporating parts of its 1960s predecessor. [81] In a recent ranking published by the New York Times, Manchester was placed as the 9th most innovative university in Europe and 3rd nationally behind Imperial and Cambridge. Woolton Hall is next to Oak House. Come along to an open day – the perfect way to get a feel for life at Manchester. The college commissioned Alfred Waterhouse, architect of London's Natural History Museum, to design a museum on a site in Oxford Road to house the collections for the benefit of students and the public.

Search text. [28][29] The centre will be aimed at advancing fundamental understanding and use of materials across a variety of oil and gas industrial applications and will be modelled on a hub and spoke structure, with the hub located at Manchester, and the spokes based at the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[30]. Many notable people have worked or studied at one or both of the two former institutions that now form the University of Manchester, including 25 Nobel Prize laureates.