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 and a product 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, after a century of close collaboration. The Institute of Science and Technology traced its origins to the Manchester Mechanics' Institution, founded in 1824, which taught working people the branches of science relevant to their occupations, and the university treats 1824 as its official foundation year. It is a member of the Russell Group and the N8 Group, runs cultural assets including the Manchester Museum, the Whitworth art gallery, the John Rylands Library and the Jodrell Bank Observatory, and counts 26 Nobel laureates among its past and present students and staff. In the technology atlas it is the institution where engineers such as Adisa Azapagic hold professorships.