University of Manchester

Publicly funded academic research is carried out at the University of Manchester, which may be found in Manchester, England. The main campus may be found along Oxford Road, which is located to the south of Manchester City Centre. The university owns and manages significant cultural assets such as the Jodrell Bank Observatory, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Manchester Museum, The Whitworth art gallery, the John Rylands Library, the Tabley House Collection, and the John Rylands Library.

A product of the red brick university movement that occurred in the late 19th century, the University of Manchester is known as a municipal university. As a result of a merger that took place in 2004, the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) and the Victoria University of Manchester merged to become the present iteration of the University of Manchester. This came about after the two organisations had collaborated closely with one another over a period of one hundred years.

In 1824, what is now known as the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology was first established as the Mechanics' Institute. The company's founders held the view that all professions, to some extent, made use of scientific ideas. As a result of this, the institution educated working people in scientific fields that were relevant to the jobs that they already held. They were of the opinion that putting scientific principles into practise would foster creativity and professional growth within the respective fields of endeavour. Owens College, the forerunner of what would later become Victoria University of Manchester, was established in 1851. Beginning in 1904, scholarly work carried out by the university was submitted to the Manchester University Press for publication.

The University of Manchester is a participant in the global Universities Research Association, in addition to the Russell Group and the N8 Group. The University of Manchester and all of its predecessor institutions have produced a total of 25 Nobel laureates between them, making it the university in the United Kingdom with the fourth-highest number of Nobel laureates produced by a single institution. The university generated a combined revenue of £1.1 billion in the fiscal year 2020/21, with research grants and contracts accounting for £237.0 million of that total. This placed the institution in sixth position nationwide, after Oxford, University College London (UCL), Cambridge, Imperial, and Edinburgh. After the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Edinburgh, and King's College London, it has the endowment that is the fifth greatest of any institution in the United Kingdom.