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 of the civic university movement of the late nineteenth century. The present institution was formed in 2004 by the merger of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and the Victoria University of Manchester. It counts its origins from the Mechanics' Institution founded in 1824, which taught working people the science behind their trades, and from Owens College, founded in 1851. As an institution of higher learning it trains students, carries out research and runs museums, a library and an observatory, and it is a member of the Russell Group of research universities in the United Kingdom.