University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England, with its main campus south of the city centre on Oxford Road. It is a red brick university, a product of the civic university movement of the late 19th century. The current institution was formed in 2004 through the merger of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) and the Victoria University of Manchester, following a century of close collaboration. UMIST traced its origins to the Manchester Mechanics' Institution, founded in 1824, and the Victoria University of Manchester was founded in 1851 as Owens College; the present university regards the date of 1824, alongside that of the ancestor of the Royal School of Medicine and Surgery, as its official foundation year.