The University of Manchester (UoM)

The University of Manchester (UoM) is a public research university in the city of Manchester, England, which was formed in 2004 by the merger of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (est. 1824) and the Victoria University of Manchester (est. 1851). Manchester is a member of the worldwide Universities Research Association, UK Russell Group of research universities and the N8 Group. University of Manchester is regarded as a red brick university, and the product of the movement of the civilian universities from the late 19th century. This forms a constituent part of the federal Victoria University between 1880, when it received a royal charter, and from 1903 to 1904, when it was dissolved.

The main campus is south of downtown Manchester on Oxford Road. In 2012, the university has about 39,000 students and 10,400 staff, making it the largest single-site university in the UK.

University of Manchester ranked 30th in the world by the QS World University Rankings. In the ranking of work published by Developing, where the CEO and chairmans asked to choose which they were recruited from the university, Manchester placed 25th in the world. In 2014 Academic Ranking of World Universities, Manchester ranked 38th in the world and 5th in the UK. It is ranked 52nd in the world and 12th in Europe by 2014 Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The University owns and operates a large cultural assets such as Museum Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, John Rylands Library and the Jodrell Bank Observatory, which include the Grade I listed Lovell Telescope. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise,

The University of Manchester has 25 Nobel laureates among past and present students and staff, the fourth highest number of single university in the UK. Four Nobel laureates currently among the staff -. More than other British universities.

University of Manchester operates through a sports club Athletic Union while the student community operated by the Student Union.

The University has more than 80 health and fitness classes while more than 3,000 students are members of 44 clubs Athletic Union. Sports communities vary in the level and scope of them. Many of the more popular sports team operates several universities and department teams competing in the league against other teams within the university. The team includes: lacrosse, korfball, dodgeball, hockey, rugby league, rugby, football, basketball, netball and cricket. Manchester Aquatics Centre, the swimming pool is used for the Manchester Commonwealth Games are on campus.

University competes every year in 28 different sports against Leeds and Liverpool universities Christie Cup, which Manchester has won seven consecutive years. The University has achieved success in the competition Bucs (British Universities and College Sports), with its men's water polo team won one national championship (2009, 2010, 2011) under coach Andy Howard. It is positioned in eighth place in the overall rankings for the 2009/10 Bucs [120] Christie Cup is a competition between -university between Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester in various sports since 1886. After Oxford and Cambridge the competition, Christie is the oldest Championship Inter -Universitas competitions in the sporting calendar: the cup is the virtue of a Richard Copley Christie.

Every year elite sportsmen and sportswomen are selected for membership XXI Club, a society which was formed in 1932 to promote excellence in university sports. Most members have gained full Maroons to represent the university and many have excelled at the University of British or national level.