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, a product of the civic university movement of the late 19th century. The current institution was formed in 2004 through the merger of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and the Victoria University of Manchester. This merger followed a century of close collaboration between the two institutions. UMIST traced its origins to the Manchester Mechanics' Institution, founded in 1824.