University of Manchester facts for kids
Mathematics Tower, Oxford Road, 1985 (on left the Computer Building and further away the University Precinct Centre)
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| Motto |
Cognitio, sapientia, humanitas
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 2004 |
| Endowment | £146 million |
| Chancellor | Lemn Sissay MBE |
| Vice-Chancellor | Dame Nancy Rothwell DBE FRS |
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Administrative staff
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10,407 |
| Students | 39,165 |
| Undergraduates | 27,310 |
| Postgraduates | 11,850 |
| Location | , |
| Campus | Urban |
| Sports | BUSA |
| Website | www.manchester.ac.uk |
The University of Manchester is a public university in Manchester, England. In 2007-08, it had over 40,000 students studying 500 academic programmes, and more than 10,000 staff and an annual income of £637 million. It is the largest single-campus University in the United Kingdom. The university was formed in 2004 by joining together the Victoria University of Manchester (founded 1851) and UMIST (founded 1824) and since then some of the buildings have been demolished and new ones built instead. These include University Place on the site of the former Mathematics Building (pictured right).
The former UMIST buildings are in the Sackville Street Campus and those of the former University of Manchester in the Oxford Road Campus. There is a residential campus further south in the suburb of Fallowfield. The earliest buildings of the university date from 1872 (west of Oxford Road) and they were occupied by Owens College in 1873. Since the 1950s the facilities for science and technology have occupied an area east of Oxford Road and the medical school was relocated there in the early 1970s.
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Faculties
- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health (formed in 2016 from the merger of the Faculties of Life Sciences, and Medical and Human Sciences)
- School of Medicine, University of Manchester
- Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
- Faculty of Humanities
Institutions
- Jodrell Bank Observatory
- Whitworth Art Gallery
- Manchester Museum, established in 1867, the museum is sited on Oxford Road among the Gothic Revival buildings of the university. It holds about six million items which come from all the continents and serves both as a resource for academic research and teaching and as a regional public museum.
- Manchester University Press
- Contact Theatre
- Chancellors Hotel & Conference Centre
Library
The John Rylands University Library is the library and information service for the university. It was formed in July 1972 from the merger of the library of the Victoria University of Manchester with the John Rylands Library. On 1 October 2004 it joined the library of the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST) on the merger of the two universities.
The main library is on the Oxford Road Campus of the University and the special collections are in the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, in the city centre. The Library is a National Research Library (an award of the Higher Education Funding Council for England): the only one in the north of England.
Images for kids
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The Old Quadrangle at the University of Manchester's main campus on Oxford Road.
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The Sackville Street Building, formerly the UMIST Main Building
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The atrium inside the £38m Manchester Institute of Biotechnology
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The buildings of the University of Manchester and the Manchester Museum in Oxford Road
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The Contact Theatre
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Chancellors Hotel & Conference Centre
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Old Medical School on Coupland Street (photographed in 1908), which now houses the School of Dentistry
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The Grade I listed Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory.
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The university's Whitworth Hall.
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The Grade-I listed John Rylands Library on Deansgate
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The entrance to the Manchester Museum
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The Whitworth Art Gallery
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The Manchester University Boat Club is one of many Athletic Union clubs
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Dilworth House, one of the Whitworth Park halls of residence
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Dalton-Ellis Hall, one of the Whitworth Park halls of residence
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See also
In Spanish: Universidad de Mánchester para niños
