University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is the UK’s largest single-site university with more than 38,000 students and 4,400 academic and research staff. The University has a rich academic heritage with no fewer than 25 Nobel Prize winners amongst its current and former staff and students. Rutherford split the atom here, the world’s first modern computer was built here in 1948 and the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to two Manchester academics for their discovery of graphene. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, the University was rated third in the UK for ‘research power’. It is one of the country’s most popular universites offering more than 500 undergraduate programmes across the full range of academic disciplines.

To make The University of Manchester one of the top 25 universities in the world by 2010 and to remain thereafter a world-leader in the quality of higher education we offer, the excellence and impact of the research we undertake and the value of the contributions we make to the economic, social and cultural life and environmental sustainability of the wider society.

Foundation year: 1824
Short name: UoM
Type: Public
Students: 36770
Faculty: 2730
Faculty/Students Ratio: 13:1
Region: Europe
Location: Manchester, England