I like when things are personal and Manchester is like a tight-knit community and everyone knows everyone. A deal struck between the university and Manchester City Council meant the council would pay for the roofs of all student residential buildings in the area, Allan Pluen's team is believed to have saved thousands on the final cost of the halls. 1 “Best Value for the Money” in Indiana, and all three are ranked in the top 10 percent nationally by College Factual. [63], The Whitworth Art Gallery houses collections of internationally famous British watercolours, textiles and wallpapers, modern and historic prints, drawings, paintings and sculpture. University of Manchester is ranked #64 in Best Global Universities. John Owens, a textile merchant, left a bequest of £96,942 in 1846 (around £5.6 million in 2005 prices)[11] to found a college to educate men on non-sectarian lines. The table is based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. Contributions in other fields such as mathematics were made by Paul Erdős, Horace Lamb and Alan Turing and in philosophy by Samuel Alexander, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Alasdair MacIntyre. Historically, Manchester has been linked with high scientific achievement: the university and its constituent former institutions combined had 25 Nobel laureates among their students and staff, the third largest number of any single university in the United Kingdom (after Oxford and Cambridge) and the ninth largest of any university in Europe. Notable scientists associated with the university include physicists Ernest Rutherford, Osborne Reynolds, Niels Bohr, James Chadwick, Arthur Schuster, Hans Geiger, Ernest Marsden and Balfour Stewart. The table is based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. Victoria Park Campus comprises several halls of residence. Woolton Hall is next to Oak House. Test Scores and High School GPA for Manchester University See Other Colleges. QS World University Rankings, 2019. [78], According to The Sunday Times in 2006, "Manchester has a formidable reputation spanning most disciplines, but most notably in the life sciences, engineering, humanities, economics, sociology and the social sciences". No more than 21 active members are allowed, each elected for up to three years (after graduating they become passive members). The Municipal College of Technology, forerunner of UMIST, was the Victoria University of Manchester's Faculty of Technology while continuing in parallel as a technical college offering advanced courses of study. For the institution in Indiana, see, Public research university in Manchester, England, Facts and Figures, The University of Manchester, 2013, p24, Hartwell, C. (2001) Manchester. [citation needed] The University of Manchester attracts thousands of international students coming from 154 countries around the world.[45]. I have met several of the faculty and believe me when I say that they want what is best for your education. [79] As of 2016, Manchester is ranked as the 8th, 10th and 49th most reputable university in the UK, Europe and the world respectively. Here is a breakdown of how this institution ranked relative to other schools for each indicator. Manchester University is a private institution that was founded in 1889. In 1959 the gallery became part of the Victoria University of Manchester. Additionally, a number of well-known actors have studied at the university, including Benedict Cumberbatch, who most notably portrays Sherlock Holmes in the TV series Sherlock, as well as playing the role of Manchester's own Alan Turing in the 2014 Oscar-winning biopic The Imitation Game'. The Faculty of Humanities includes the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures (incorporating Archaeology; Art History & Visual Studies; Classics and Ancient History; Drama; English and American Studies; History; Linguistics; Modern Languages; Museology; Music; Religions and Theology and the University Language Centre) and the Schools of Combined Studies; Education; Environment and Development; Architecture; Law; Social Sciences and the Manchester Business School. [8] The vice president of Tanzania (November 2015 – present), Samia Hassan Suluhu, also attended the University of Manchester, as did Starry Lee Wai King a prominent pro-establishment politician in Hong Kong. The University of Manchester Library is the largest non-legal deposit library in the UK and the third-largest academic library after those of Oxford and Cambridge. In the Sackville Street Campus is the Sackville Street Building which was formerly UMIST's "Main Building".