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Imperial College London (Imperial) is a public research university in London, England. Its history begins with Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, who designed the cultural precinct in South Kensington including museums, colleges and the Royal Albert Hall.[6][7] In 1907, these colleges – the Royal College of Science, the Royal School of Mines, and the City and Guilds of London Institute – merged to form Imperial College London.[8] In 1988, the Imperial College School of Medicine was established through a merger with St Mary’s Hospital Medical School. In 2004, Queen Elizabeth II opened the business school of Imperial College.

The university focuses on science, engineering, business, and medicine, while having a business culture.[9] The main school is located in South Kensington, the secondary school in White City also serves as a center for innovation, marketing, and research.[10] The Department of Medicine also operates five teaching hospitals across London. The university was formerly a constituent college of the University of London and became an independent university in 2007.[11] With over 60% international students, Imperial represents 140 countries on campus.[12]

History

The first college to lead to an Imperial establishment was the Royal College of Chemistry, founded in 1845, with the approval of Prince Albert and Parliament.[7] This was merged in 1853 with what became known as the Royal School of Mines.[13] The medical school has its roots in a number of different schools across London, the oldest of which is Charing Cross Hospital Medical School which can be traced back to 1823, followed by teaching beginning at Westminster Hospital in 1834, and St Mary’s Hospital in 1851.[14]. [15][16]

In 1851, Henry Cole and Prince Albert, the husband of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, Queen Victoria organized the exhibition as an exhibition of culture and industry. A popular and financial success, funds from the Great Exhibition were earmarked to develop an area for cultural and scientific progress in South Kensington.[17] Over the next six years, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Science Museum opened, joined by new buildings in 1871 for the Royal College of Chemistry, and in 1881 the opening of the Royal School of Mines and Natural History Museum.[18]

Imperial Institute, now the site of the Queen’s Lawn
In 1881, the Normal School of Science was founded in South Kensington under the leadership of Thomas Huxley, taking over responsibility for the teaching of natural sciences and agriculture from the Royal School of Mines.[19] The school was renamed the Royal College of Science by royal consent in 1890.[20] The Central Institution of the City and Guilds of London Institute was opened as a technical academy on the road by the Prince of Wales in 1884, with studies commencing in 1885.[8]

Royal College of Science
20th century
At the beginning of the 20th century, there was concern that Great Britain was falling behind Germany in science and technology. A departmental committee was formed at the Board of Education in 1904, to look into the future of the Royal College of Science. A report issued in 1906 called for the establishment of an institution uniting the Royal College of Science and the Royal School of Mines, and – if agreement could be reached with the City and Guilds of London Institute – a central Technical College. 21 [22]

On 8 July 1907, Edward VII granted a Royal Charter establishing the Imperial College of Science and Technology. This includes the Royal School of Mines and the Royal College of Science. He also arranged for the City and Guilds Colleges to immediately join his governing body, and Imperial to become a college of the University of London.[23] The college joined the University of London on 22 July 1908, and City and Guilds College joined in 1910.[8][24] The large Imperial College campus was built next to the Imperial Institute building, a new building for the Royal College of Science opened across from it in 1906, and the foundation of the Royal School of Mines was laid by King Edward VII. in July 1909.[21]

As students at Imperial will study separately for a London degree, in January 1919, students and alumni qualified for a petition to make Imperial a university with the authority to award its own degree, dependent on the University of London.[ 25 [26] In response, the University of London changed its regulations in 1925 so that the university would examine the courses taught only at Imperial, enabling students to obtain a Bachelor of Science.[27] In October 1945, George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited Imperial to celebrate the centenary of the Royal College of Chemistry, the oldest of the institutions that merged to form Imperial College. “Memorial Day”, the name of this visit, is held every October as a university graduation ceremony.[28][29] The college also acquired a station at Silwood Park near Ascot, Berkshire in 1947.[30]

Royal School of Mines
After the Second World War, there was another concern that Britain was falling behind in science – this time to the United States. The Percy Report of 1945 and the Barlow Commission in 1946 called for a “British Myth” – which was influenced by scientists as well as politicians at the time, including Lord Cherwell, Sir Lawrence Bragg and Sir Edward Appleton.[31 ][32] The University Grants Committee was against it however, [31] so there was an agreement in 1953, where Imperial would remain a university, but double in size over the next ten years.[33] [34] The expansion led to the construction of many new buildings. These included the north tower in 1957 and the Physics building in 1960, and the completion of the East Quadrangle, which was built on four levels between 1959 and 1965. The building project also meant the demolition of the City and Guilds College building in 1962-63. and the building of the Imperial Institute from 1967.[35] Opposition from the Royal Fine Arts Commission and others meant that the Queen’s Tower was retained, with work between 1966 and 1968 to straighten it.[36] A new laboratory for biochemistry, established with the support of a £350,000 grant from the Wolfson Foundation, was opened by the Queen in 1965.[37][38]

In 1988, Imperial merged with St Mary’s Hospital Medical School under the Imperial College Act 1988. An amendment to the Royal Charter changed the institution’s name to The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine and made St Mary’s a constituent college. .[39] ] This was followed by its merger with the National Heart and Lung Institute in 1995 and Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1997, and the Imperial College Act 1997 establishing the Imperial College. Medicine.[40]

narị afọ nke 21
N’afọ 2003, ndị Privy Council nyere Imperial ikike inye akara ugo mmụta n’aka nke ya. Na 2004, ụlọ akwụkwọ azụmahịa nke Imperial College na ọnụ ụzọ kọleji ọhụrụ na okporo ụzọ ngosi.[41][42] E hiwekwara ụlọ ọrụ nyocha ike ike UK na 2004 wee mepee isi ụlọ ọrụ ya na Imperial. Na 9 Disemba 2005, Imperial kwupụtara na ọ ga-amalite mkparita uka ịpụ na Mahadum London.[43] Imperial nwetara nnwere onwe zuru oke na Mahadum London na Julaị 2007.[11] [44] [45]

Na 2003, The Guardian kọrọ na otu ụzọ n’ụzọ atọ nke ụmụ nwanyị gụrụ akwụkwọ na Imperial “kwere[d] na ịkpa ókè ma ọ bụ mmegbu sitere n’aka ndị njikwa egbochila ọrụ ha”.[46] Na 2012, Imperial nwetara Athena SWAN Silver Award institutional, nke na-amata omume ọrụ na-akwado ọrụ ụmụ nwanyị na sayensị.[47]

N’afọ 2007, e welitere nchegbu banyere ụzọ ndị a na-eji chụpụ ndị mmadụ na ngalaba ọgwụ.[48][49] N’afọ 2014, Stefan Grimm, nke Ngalaba Na-ahụ Maka Ọgwụ, hụrụ na ọ nwụrụ anwụ mgbe e yisịrị ya egwu na a ga-achụ ya n’ọrụ n’ihi enweghị ike inweta ego enyemaka zuru oke.[50] Email ikpeazụ ya tupu ọnwụ ya boro ndị were ya n’ọrụ ebubo na ha na-emegbu mmadụ site n’ịchọ ka ọ nweta onyinye ruru opekata mpe £ 200,000 kwa afọ.[51][52] Kọleji ahụ kwuputara nyocha nke ime n’ime ọnwụ Stefan Grimm, wee chọpụta na metrik arụmọrụ maka ọnọdụ ya enweghị ezi uche, yana metrics ọhụrụ maka arụmọrụ dị mkpa.[53]

N’April 2011, Imperial na King’s College London sonyeere UK Center for Medical Research and Innovation dị ka ndị mmekọ na ntinye nke £ 40 nde onye ọ bụla na ọrụ ahụ. Emechara aha etiti ahụ aha Francis Crick Institute wee meghee na 9 Nọvemba 2016. Ọ bụ ụlọ nyocha biomedical kachasị na Europe. Kọleji ahụ malitere ịkwaga n’ime ụlọ akwụkwọ White City ọhụrụ na 2016, na mmalite nke Hub Innovation.[54] Nke a sochiri mmeghe nke Molecular Sciences Research Hub maka Ngalaba Chemistry, nke onye isi obodo London, Sadiq Khan meghere na 2019.[55]

Okwu mmegbu n’ime ndị ọrụ na Imperial bilitere na Nọvemba 2020 mgbe Alex Sobel, onye ọrụ MP Labour maka Leeds North West jụrụ onye odeakwụkwọ nke steeti maka agụmakwụkwọ n’ajụjụ edere na 24 Nọvemba kedu ihe ọfịs maka ụmụ akwụkwọ mere na nzaghachi akụkọ nke Jane McNeill QC dere na 25 August bụ nke chọpụtara na mmegbu emeela na Imperial n’okpuru President (Alice Gast) na onye isi ego. Michelle Donelan, onye MP Conservative maka Chippenham, zara maka Ngalaba Education na “Ọfịs maka ụmụ akwụkwọ (OfS) na-atụle ozi ọ nwetara n’ihe gbasara okwu a, n’ụzọ kwekọrọ na usoro ha na-emekarị. Dị ka ụkpụrụ omume, na OfS enweghị ike ikwu okwu n’otu n’otu.”[56]

E boro kọleji ahụ ebubo mkpuchi mkpuchi nke Mahadum na kọleji na Disemba 2020 mgbe ọ jụrụ ibipụta akụkọ McNeill, ọbụlagodi n’ụdị edegharịrị. Onye isi oche nke Council kwuru na a na-edobe akụkọ a nzuzo iji chekwaa amaghị aha ndị nyere ihe akaebe, na ndị otu ndị isi ọchịchị anabatala ndụmọdụ ya, na na-emejuputa atumatu ndị a n’uju. Otu kọmiti na-ahụ maka ịdọ aka ná ntị kpebiri na nchụpụ Gast dị ka onye isi ala abụghị ihe kwesịrị ekwesị na onye na-ekwuchitere kọleji kwuru na ya “jiri obi ya niile rịọ ndị ihe metụtara mgbaghara.”[57]. Na 14 Febrụwarị 2021, ekwuputara na OfS ga-enyocha ebubo nke mmegbu.[58]

Campus

South Kensington
The South Kensington campus is a college campus, where most teaching and research takes place. It is home to many famous buildings, such as the business school, the Royal School of Mines, and the Royal College of Science. It is also the original site of the Imperial Institute, with the Queen’s Tower standing in the center of the campus overlooking the Queen’s Lawn. As part of the cultural center known as Albertopolis, the campus is surrounded by many of London’s most famous buildings, including the Royal Albert Hall and Kensington Palace, museums including the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Museums, and institutions like. Royal College of Art, Royal College of Music, and National Art Library.

Check through the main door
The campus has a number of hotels and restaurants run by the college, and has several residences for college students, including Prince’s Garden Hall, and Beit Hall, the residence of the college, which make a student bar, restaurant, and cinema on site. . To the north, within easy reach of the college, are Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, with green spaces and playgrounds used by many student clubs.

Kensington Gardens
White town
Imperial has a large new second campus in the White City providing a platform for innovation and entrepreneurship.[59] The facility has laboratories, postgraduate accommodation, and commercial space.[60][61] The campus is home to the Scale Space and Incubator, the Industrial Building, the College and the Community Media Center.[62] The White City campus also includes another biomedical center sponsored by Sir Michael Uren.[63][64][65]

Silwood Park
Silwood Park is an Imperial graduate school in the village of Sunninghill near Ascot in Berkshire. Silwood National Park is a center for research and education in ecology, evolution, and conservation. It is housed in a 100 hectare park that is used for habitat research.

Hospital
Imperial has teaching hospitals across London that are used by the School of Medicine for undergraduate clinical teaching and clinical research. They are all based in hospitals with colleges, and also offer restaurants and sports. College libraries are located on each campus, including the Fleming Library at St Mary’s.[66]

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Goldsmiths, University of London, formally Goldsmiths College, is a constituent research university of the University of London.[3] It was founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths’ Technical and Recreational Institute by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in New Cross, London.[4] It was renamed Goldsmiths’ College after it was acquired by the University of London in 1904, and specializes in art, design, computing, humanities and science.[5] The main building on campus, known as Richard Hoggart House, was originally opened in 1844 and was the site of the first Royal Naval Academy.[6][7]

According to Quacquarelli Symonds (2021), Goldsmiths is ranked 12th in Communication and Media, 15th in Art & Design and is in the top 50 in the areas of Anthropology, Sociology and Performing Arts.[8] In 2020, the university enrolled 10,000 students at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.[2] 37% of students come from outside the United Kingdom and 52% of all graduates are mature students (those aged 21 or over at the start of their studies).[9] In addition, about a third of the students at Goldsmiths are graduate students.[2]

History

Foundation; Richard Hoggart’s house
In 1891, the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, one of the Livery Companies of the City of London, established The Goldsmiths’ Technical and Recreational Institute (commonly referred to as “The Goldsmiths’ Institute”[10]). Goldsmiths was founded in the 12th century as an ancient guild for goldsmiths, silversmiths and goldsmiths. The Livery Company dedicated the foundation of its new Institute to “the promotion of technology, knowledge, health and general well-being among men and women of industry, work and skilled workers”. The first school was based in New Cross on the site of the former Royal Naval Academy; the building, now known as the Richard Hoggart House, remains the main building of the school today.

20th century

Goldsmiths College students at the University of Nottingham in 1944
In 1904, the institution merged with the University of London and was relaunched as Goldsmiths College (the apostrophe was removed in 1993, but the word ‘College’ was included in the rebranding in 2006). Today, Goldsmiths is the largest teaching institution in the country. The training program was later expanded to include a refresher course for teachers, a Postgraduate Certificate in Education and a Vocational Teacher Certificate course. The college also operates its own nursery school.

Shortly after the merger, in 1907, Goldsmiths added a new Arts building, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield, to the rear of the main building. During the Second World War, it was decided to evacuate the faculty and students of the college at the University of Nottingham, a decision that proved wise both at the time and in thinking, since the main building was hit by an incendiary bomb The body collapsed in 1940. (and was not repaired until 1947).

During the 1960s, Goldsmiths experienced rapid growth in student numbers. It was during this period that Goldsmiths began to make a name for itself in the arts and social sciences, as well as offering a number of new training courses. The original main building was extended, and the Lockwood Building, Whitehead Building, Education Building, Warmington Tower and St James’s Hall were all built to accommodate the intake of new students. The university is also home to a number of historic buildings in the surrounding area, including the magnificent original Deptford Town Hall and Laurie Grove Baths. Richard Hoggart House, Deptford Town Hall and Laurie Grove Baths all retain their Grade II listed status.

In 1988, Goldsmiths became a full college of the University of London and in 1990 received a Royal Charter.

21st century
In 2018, the Laurie Grove Baths public baths were renovated as Goldsmiths CCA.

In August 2019, Goldsmiths announced that it would remove all beef products from sale and would charge a 10p tax on bottled water and single-use plastic cups. These changes were introduced as part of the university’s efforts to become carbon neutral by 2025.[11]

Financial crisis and restructuring
In 2019, the Goldsmiths lost Frances Corner as Warden; [12] Teachers and students have always opposed Corner’s administration regarding governance and financial planning.

In January 2020, Goldsmiths proposed to cut costs by 15% over two years in the “Evolving Goldsmiths” plan by reducing departments and management.[13] According to Goldsmiths University and College Union (UCU), the plan does not address the causes of the shortage, which it says is partly due to poor enrollment policies and large budgets. Furthermore, the UCU warned that the reduction in the department will increase the deficit by reducing the income of tuition fees, [14] which amounted to 77% of the college’s income in the budget of 2019-2020. [15] “Evolving Goldsmiths” was “closed” in April 2022.[16] In summer 2020, the UCU proposed selling “unused” assets to build savings; this is not done. Goldsmiths consolidated and restructured its loans from NatWest and Lloyds Bank; The bank required the college to go to KPMG to identify cost savings opportunities.[12]

The “Recovery Plan” of 2021 includes the abolition of Section 52 and the Labor Standards Act. Goldman found additional costs from the COVID-19 and labor shortages have led to increased competition for student supplies after the government removed limits on student numbers.[17] According to the UCU in March 2022, Collage refused to end the layoffs even though the income from voluntary resignations and retention of positions exceeded the bank’s requirements.[18] Administration is placed in the center in 2021-2022; the resulting “crisis” reduced the number of international students enrolled; International students are a major source of income.[19] From 2021, Corner also paid the college almost £20,000 for taxi transport, with £9,000 for personal use.[20]

The “transformation program”, announced at the beginning of 2024, includes the elimination of 132 full-time, or equivalent, positions, or 17% of all employees, reducing some departments by 50%. It is expected that this plan will be completed in September. According to The Guardian newspaper, the scale of the destruction will change the culture of the college significantly.[19]

Campus

Goldsmiths is located in New Cross, a residential area in south-east London.

The main building, the Richard Hoggart House, was designed as a school (opened in 1844) by architect John Shaw, Jr (1803-1870). The original Deptford Town Hall, designed by Henry Vaughan Lanchester and Edwin Alfred Rickards, acquired in 1998, is used for seminars and conferences. In addition to this Goldsmiths built a number of modern buildings to house the school, including the RIBA award-winning Rutherford Building completed in 1997, the Ben Pimlott building designed by Will Alsop and completed in 2005, and the Professor Stuart Hall Building (formerly the School New), completed in 2010.

The library, or Rutherford Building’, has three floors and provides students with access to a wide range of electronic and book materials. Goldsmiths students, like all other students at the University of London, have full access to these collections at Senate House Library in Bloomsbury in central London.

Ben Pimlott’s house
The seven-storey Ben Pimlott building in New Cross Road, complete with unique “writings in the sky” (made from 229 different metals) has become a signature of the modern Goldsmiths. It has studio space and teaching space for the arts department, as well as housing Goldsmiths Digital Studios [21] and the Center for Cognition, Computation and Culture.[22]

Professor Stuart Hall, located next to the green, is home to the Department of Media and Communication and the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICCE).[23] Formerly the New Academy), in 2014, it was renamed after cultural scholar Stuart Hall.[24][25] Facilities include a 250-seat theater, seminar and lecture rooms, and a cafe with outdoor seating.

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Brunel University London (BUL, commonly referred to as Brunel) is a public research university located in the Uxbridge area of ​​London, England. It was founded in 1966 and named after Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a Victorian engineer and pioneer of the Industrial Revolution. In June 1966, Brunel College of Advanced Technology was granted a royal charter and became Brunel University; in 2014 the university adopted the name Brunel University London (BUL). The university is considered as the British plate glass university. In October 2024, Brunel will join the federal University of London to become a member of the 18th federation.[3]

Since 2014 the university is organized into three colleges: College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences; College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences; and College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences.

Brunel has more than 16,150 students and 2,500 staff, [4] with an annual income of £271.3 million (2021-22), of which £22.4 million comes from research grants and contracts, and expenditure of £311.9 million .[1] The university won the Queen’s Anniversary Prize in 2011. BUL is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the European University Association, and Universities UK

History

The beginning
Brunel University London was one of many British universities founded in the 1960s following Robbins’s appeal to higher education. It is sometimes described as “university plate glass”. The university’s origins lie in Acton Technical College, which split into two in 1957: Acton Technical College continued to cater for technicians and artisans, and Brunel College of Technology (named after Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a British engineer ) is dedicated to the education of chartered engineers.

The school building, including the teaching area, was designed by Richard Sheppard, Robson & Partners, Architects, in the Brutalist architectural style.

In 1960 Brunel College of Technology was given the status of a College of Advanced Technology, and it was decided that it would expand to another site to accommodate the additional buildings that would be required. Uxbridge was chosen to host the new building, and construction work had barely begun before the Ministry of Education changed the college’s status: it was named Brunel College of Advanced Technology in 1962 – the 10th advanced technology college in the country, and the last to be awarded this name.

The Uxbridge (Vine Street) branch line was closed in 1964, and the college bought the land adjacent to the railway site for £65,000 from the local council.[5]

A royal charter granting university status and the right to award degrees was granted on 9 June 1966, and the institution became Brunel University.[6][7]

The university continued to use both campuses until 1971, when it vacated the Acton site. In 1980, the university merged with Shoreditch College of Education (Shoreditch Training College), [8] [9] [10] [11] located at Cooper’s Hill, Runnymede, which became Brunel’s second campus.

In 1995, the university expanded again, joining the West London Institute of Higher Education, adding campuses in Osterley and Twickenham, increasing the number of courses that the university can offer. Traditionally, the strength of the university is in engineering, science, and technology, but in addition to the West London Institute, new departments such as arts, humanities, geography and earth sciences, health sciences and sports, and the size of students. reached over 12,000.

Brunel has been a subject of controversy as his approach to higher education is both commercial and politically conservative. angered the staff and students, and as a result, the ceremony will be held at the owners’ homes instead of on the school grounds. In the late 1990s, the Department of Physics, Chemistry, and Materials Engineering was closed, and, in 2004, Vice President Steven Schwartz, began a restructuring of the university’s faculty within the school, and closed the Department of Geography. and Earth Sciences. The acting vice president, sociologist Christopher Jenks, took office in 2006.[12] He was followed by Julia Buckingham, formerly of Imperial College London, who took up the position of chancellor at Brunel in 2012.[13]

In 2014 the university underwent internal restructuring and the name was changed to Brunel University London by charter of 16 July 2014. In 2016 Brunel celebrated its 50th anniversary since it was granted the royal charter, and held events for 14 months over more. 40 ceremonial occasions.[14]

In December 2020, the chancellor of the university Sir Richard Sykes led an independent review of the plans and objectives of the Vaccine Taskforce (UK), and in June 2021 he was finally appointed as the new chairman of the staff, leading the work to find, access and vaccination and care. support for vaccination campaigns as part of the UK’s COVID-19 vaccination programme.[15]

In April 2021, it was announced that Professor Julia Buckingham CBE would step down as Vice-Chancellor and President after almost 10 years in the role. He was succeeded by Professor Andrew Jones, who took up the position in January 2022.[16]

Campus

Part of Brunel’s main campus
In the late 1990s Brunel drew up a 10-year, £250 million masterplan for the school. This includes selling school buildings in Runnymede, Osterley and Twickenham and using the proceeds from the sale to repair and upgrade buildings and facilities on the Uxbridge campus. The projects included the extension of the library, a modern playground, a renovated student union center, a new health science teaching center, and the construction of several residence halls.

The original Brunel School was designed by Richard Sheppard, Robson and Associates, with many buildings retaining the ‘Brutalist’ architectural style of the 1960s. It has appeared in many films, most notably Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange , a large part of which was built on campus, notably the John Crank Building (demolished July 2019) and a Grade II listed teaching facility.[17] He has also appeared in several UK television series including Spooks, Silent Witness, The Sweeney and Inspector Morse.[18]

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On each course page you’ll find a dropdown box to find the entry criteria for most international qualifications. You’ll need to provide your full official transcript and certificate before you can register at Brunel. For students who need a visa to study in the UK, you will need to provide these documents before we can issue your CAS. If you have completed the qualification already, you can upload the documents as part of your application. If you are still completing the qualification, simply upload an interim transcript with your application and you can provide the full documents once you complete your qualification.

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All applicants need to be able to demonstrate their English Language ability as part of their application to Brunel. We accept a whole range of English Language qualifications and you can find the specific requirements for each course on the course page. For some countries we can accept an academic qualification as evidence of your English Language ability in place of an English Language test, you can check by selecting your country to see what qualifications and grades are accepted.

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Birkbeck, University of London (formerly Birkbeck College, University of London), is a research university in London, England, and a member of the University of London. Founded in 1823 as the London Mechanics’ Institute by its founder Sir George Birkbeck and his supporters – Jeremy Bentham, J.C. Hobhouse and Henry Brougham-Birkbeck is one of the few universities specializing in evening higher education in the United Kingdom.

Birkbeck’s headquarters are located in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden in Central London. Birkbeck offers over 200 undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Birkbeck’s academic program is organized into five departments which are divided into 19 departments. The university is a member of academic institutions such as the Association of Commonwealth Universities and the European University Association. The University is also a member of the Screen Studies Group, London. The University’s School of Brain Function and Development was awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for brain research in 2005.[5]

Birkbeck graduates, and past and present staff include five Nobel laureates, many political leaders, members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and British prime ministers.

History

Foundation

Sir George Birkbeck, founder of Birkbeck, University of London

Part of the grounds of Birkbeck School in Bloomsbury, showing the main entrance (right).
In 1823, Sir George Birkbeck, a physician and graduate of the University of Edinburgh and the first pioneer of adult education, founded the “London Mechanics’ Institute” at a meeting at the Crown and Anchor Tavern on the Strand. More than two thousand people attended.[6] However, this view was not universally popular and some accused Birkbeck of “scattering the seeds of evil”.[7]

In 1825, two years later, the school moved to Southampton Buildings in Chancery Lane. In 1830, the first female students were admitted. In 1858, a change in the structure of the University of London opened up the possibility of taking examinations for its degrees. The school became a major provider of undergraduate education for a while.[6]

In 1866, the Institute changed its name to the Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution.[6]

In 1885, Birkbeck moved to the Breams Building, in Fetter Lane, where it would remain for the next sixty-seven years.[6]

In 1904, the Birkbeck Students’ Union was formed.

Birkbeck School
In 1907, the name of Birkbeck was shortened to “Birkbeck College”. In 1913, a review of the University of London (revised in 1900) strongly recommended that Birkbeck become a constituent college, although the outbreak of the First World War delayed this until 1920.[6] Royal Charter was granted in 1926.[8]

In 1921, the college’s first female professor, Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, began teaching horticulture.[7] Other prominent faculty during the war years include Nikolaus Pevsner, J.D. Bernal, and Cyril Joad.

During the Second World War, Birkbeck was the only Central University of London college that did not move to the capital. In 1941, the library suffered a direct hit during the Blitz but classes continued. During the war the university organized an extramural luncheon with public speeches given by, among others, Joad, Pevsner and Harold Nicolson.

In 1952, the college moved to its present location on Malet Street.[6]

Current position
In 2002, the university was renamed Birkbeck, University of London, removing the word College from its preferred name, but Birkbeck College, University of London remains the full legal name.[9] In 2003, following a major development, the Chancellor of the University of London, The Princess Royal opened her Malet Street home.

In 2006, Birkbeck announced that the Council’s Higher Education Funding Fund had given it £5 million to expand its provision in east London, working with the University of East London.[10] The partnership was established on 21 November 2006 and was named Birkbeck Stratford.[11]

Birkbeck is the largest college in the University of London not to award its own degree. Although it has been able to award its own degrees since 2012, Birkbeck has chosen to keep these on the safe side, preferring to award degrees from the University of London.[12] It also offers many continuing education courses leading to certificates and diplomas, foundation degrees, and short courses.

At the end of October 2022, the University and College published a newsletter in which it announced that Birkbeck plans to reduce its staff significantly due to a multi-million pound deficit, in a restructuring that could lead to forced redundancies. In the same release, it was revealed that the local UCU branch had passed a motion of no confidence in the senior leadership.[13] Protests took place at the university in November 2022 on the proposed job cuts.[14]

In 2022 Birkbeck, a history of the University, was published by Oxford University Press to mark its 200th anniversary.[15]

The original entrance to Birkbeck College; The new door is on the other side of this building.
A school of continuing education
In 1876, the London Society for the Extension of University Education was founded, promoting the goal of encouraging working people to pursue higher education. In 1988, the Department of Extra-Mural Studies of the University of London was incorporated in Birkbeck, becoming the first Center for Extramural Studies. In 1903, it became the Faculty of Extra-Mural Studies of the University of London and was incorporated into Birkbeck in 1988 as a School of Continuing Education. In 2009, a lifelong learning department was added to the college’s campus.[16]

School and location

Inside the new school.

Birkbeck College Hotel
Birkbeck is located between Malet Street and Woburn Square in Bloomsbury, with a number of schools, teaching hospitals and scientific laboratories on the road nearby. The School of Arts, including the Department of English & Humanities, is located in Virginia Woolf’s former Gordon Square residence in Bloomsbury. Another popular type Residents of this building include John Maynard Keynes, Vanessa Bell, and Lydia Lopokova. Gordon Square House includes Birkbeck’s theatre.[17] and the Peltz Gallery.[18]

Many Birkbeck classes are taught elsewhere in the Bloomsbury area, due to a combination of Birkbeck’s expanding plans to make higher education accessible and because almost All classes on the same day at the same time, resulting in fierce competition for limited space. .

Birkbeck extends to east London, with links to the University of East London. This work is known as Birkbeck Stratford.[10] The school officially opened in November 2013.[19]

Penoyre Prasad renovated the building on Euston Road to be occupied by Birkbeck in 2021.[20][21][22]

In 2021, it was announced that Birkbeck would lease Student Central. After renovations, the building opened during the 2022–23 academic year.[23][20]

Academic Profile

Research and teaching
The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities (BIR) [24] was founded in 2004, with the famous and controversial Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek appointed as its international director. According to its website, the Institute seeks, among other things, to “engage in the important social issues of our time through a series of open debates, lectures, seminars and conference” and “promotes and improves the situation of interdisciplinary research and collaboration between scientists and researchers”. The launch of the Institute was not without controversy, prompting an article in The Observer entitled “What have intellectuals done for the world?”[25] which criticized the lack of importance and authority of intellectuals. society at this time. The company’s current CEO is Costas Douzinas.[26] 2004 also saw Birkbeck move into research and teaching at the Institute of Education, jointly creating the London Knowledge Lab. This interdisciplinary research center brings together social scientists and computer scientists to answer research questions about technology and learning.[27]

Meanwhile, the graduate school of the London Consortium – a partnership between Birkbeck, Tate Galleries, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Architectural Association, and, until 1999, the British Film Institute – has been running since the mid-1990s, and Master’s and doctoral degrees. degrees in interdisciplinary humanities and cultural studies, resourced and jointly taught by all participants. His permanent faculty and additions include figures such as Tom McCarthy, Colin MacCabe, Laura Mulvey, Steven Connor, Marina Warner, Juliet Mitchell, Stuart Hall, Roger Scruton, Salman Rushdie, Tilda Swinton and Slavoj Žižek. His current seat is Anthony Julius.

Torrington Square and Birkbeck’s Clore Management Center (right)
Since 2003, when David Latchman of UCL became the Master of Birkbeck, he has established a close relationship between these two colleges of the University of London, and manages the faculty in both. Collaborative research centers include the UCL/Birkbeck Institute for Earth and Planetary Sciences, the UCL/Birkbeck/IoE Center for Educational Neuroscience, the UCL/Birkbeck Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, and the Birkbeck-UCL Center for Neuroimaging.[citation needed]

Scientific research at Birkbeck has an outstanding tradition. Physicist David Bohm who made a famous contribution to the theory of Quantum mechanics was professor of Theoretical Physics from 1961 to 1987, Nobel Laureates Aaron Klug in the Department of crystallography, Derek Barton in the Department of Chemistry along with the famous physicist Roger Penrose and David Bohm and Department of Physics. Computer scientist Kathleen Booth wrote the first programming language. Birkbeck is part of the Institute of Structural Molecular Biology, which includes the Bloomsbury Center for Structural Biology, which was established in 1998. This is a joint venture between Birkbeck College and University College London and is a leading academic institution for interpreting molecular biology. heredity and determination of protein structure. and work. It also includes the Bloomsbury Center for Bioinformatics, a joint venture between Birkbeck College and University College London for research into Bioinformatics, Genomics, Systems Biology, Grid computing and Text Mining.

Birkbeck was 13th in The Guardian’s 2001 Student Assessment Exercise and 26th in the Times Higher Education’s corresponding table. In the 2008 RAE results, Birkbeck was ranked in the top 25% of UK multi-faculty Higher Education Institutions. The RAE rates research across a range of subjects at 159 Higher Education Institutions in the UK. Birkbeck’s submissions from Earth Sciences, Psychology, History, Classics and Archeology and History of Art, Film and Visual Media were ranked in the top five nationally. In REF2014, half of Birkbeck’s entries were rated in the top 20 nationally, and eight entries achieved a 100% rating for the research environment. 73% of the Birkbeck survey is a world leader’ (4) or “good international” (3). In the 2021 REF exercise, Birkbeck performed well throughout, with excellent results in English Language & Literature, [29] while Birkbeck was second nationally, as well as Art and Design, [30] while Birkbeck is fourth in the country.

Quality
Quality
National level
Perfect (2025)[31] N/A
The Guardian (2024)[32] N/A
Time / Sunday Times (2024) [33] N/A
Global level
ARWU (2024) [34] 801–900
QS (2025) [35] 408=
NOTES (2024) [36] 301–350

Friends house
Birkbeck’s Center for Brain Function and Development won the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for brain research in 2005. In 2010, Birkbeck was shortlisted for the Times Higher Education University of the Year award.[37]

In 2021, the Times Higher Education World University Ranking ranked Birkbeck 95th in the world for Psychology. The university is always ranked in the top 100 in the world by the QS World University Rankings for English Language & Literature and Philosophy.[38] Internationally, Birkbeck is ranked among the top 350 universities in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020 and the QS World University Rankings 2020.

In 2018, Birkbeck announced that he would leave the UK university ranks because the system unfairly penalizes him, since “despite having extensive teaching and research, the again caused by his unique teaching style and lack of connection with his performance causing him to go down in rank” [39]

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The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or Londin in post-nominals) is a federal [a] public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by Royal Charter in 1836 as a degree-examining board for students with degrees from University College London, King’s College London and “such other institutions, corporate or non-corporate, as may be -established for educational purposes, whether in the city or elsewhere in our United Kingdom. England. It is now incorporated by royal charter 4 (1863) and regulated by the University of London Act 2018 (c. iii).[12]

The university has 17 member institutions and three secondary schools.[13] [14] The university has around 48,000 distance learning external students[15] and around 219,410 school-based students, making it the largest university by the number of students in the United Kingdom. For many practical purposes, from admissions to funding, member institutions operate on an independent basis, offering many of their own degrees while still being at federal universities.

Under the 2018 law, member institutions stopped calling colleges and gained the right to seek university status without leaving federal universities: Birkbeck, City, Goldsmiths’, King’s College London, LSE, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Queen Mary , the Royal Veterinary College, Royal Holloway, SOAS, St George’s and UCL have indicated their intention to do so.[16]

As of 2015, there are approximately two million University of London alumni worldwide, [17] including at least 14 kings or queens, more than 60 heads of state or prime ministers in the world ( including 5 prime ministers of the United Kingdom), c] 2 Cabinet Secretaries of the UK, [d] 98 Nobel laureates,[e] Fields Medalists, Turing Award four, six Grammy winners, two Oscar winners, three Olympic gold winners and ” “Father of Nations” of various nations. .[f] The University owns the University of London Press

History

The University College London (UCL) was founded under the name “London University” (but without support from the state) in 1826 as an alternative to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, which restricted their degrees to members of the Church of England established. [19] Due to the controversy surrounding the establishment of UCL, King’s College London was established as an Anglican college by royal charter in 1829.[20][21]

In 1830, UCL applied for a royal charter as a university which would allow it to award degrees. This was rejected, but was renewed in 1834.[22] In response to this, opposition to “separation” rights grew among London’s medical schools. The idea of ​​a general donation group for the school was discussed in the medical journal [23] and evidence was taken by the Select Committee on Medical Education.[24] [25] However, the ban on opening Oxford and Cambridge degrees to dissidents led to further pressure on the government to authorize the granting of degrees to institutions without religious examinations, [26] [27] [28] ] especially as the degrees of the new Durham University were to be closed to non-Anglicans.[29]

In 1835, the government announced a response to UCL’s request for a charter. Two charters will be issued, one in which UCL is incorporated as a college rather than a university, without the right to grant, and the second “to create a Metropolitan University, which has the right to grant students to study at University College London” .or in any similar institution which His Majesty may like to name” [30].

Following the issuance of its charter on 28 November 1836, the new University of London began to develop standards for degrees in March 1837. The death of William IV in June, however, caused a problem – the charter was issued “in time Our Royal. will and pleasure”, which was revoked by Queen Victoria on 5 December 1837. The university awarded its first degree in 1839 , all to students from UCL and King’s College.

The university established by charters of 1836 and 1837 is a research institute with the right to grant degrees in arts, law and medicine. However, the university does not have the authority to award theology degree, which is considered as the head of department in the other three English universities. In medicine, the university was given the right to decide which medical school provided the most comprehensive medical training. In arts and law, in contrast, it will examine students from UCL, King’s College, or any other institution authorized by the king, giving the government control of which institutions can submit students for examination of the university. Apart from this right to give students for exams, there is no other connection between the college and the university.

In 1849 the university held its first graduation ceremony at Somerset House following a petition by the senate from the graduates, who had previously received their degrees without ceremony. About 250 students graduated from the ceremony. Contemporary London academic uniforms were characterized by their “rich velvet appearance”.[32]

The list of institutions whose students could enter the study of the University of London grew rapidly from 1858, to include other universities in Britain and more than 30 other schools and colleges outside London. That year, a new charter opened the exam to everyone, effectively eliminating the weak link between universities and colleges.[33][34][35] This led the Earl of Kimberley, a member of the university’s senate, to tell the House of Lords in 1888 “that there is no college connected with the University of London, although there were many years ago”[36]. The reform of 1858 also incorporated university graduates into institutions, such as those of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham, and authorized the awarding of science degrees, the first BSc being awarded in 1860.[37]

The expanded work means the university needs more space, especially with the growing number of students at local university colleges. Between 1867 and 1870 a new headquarters was built at 6 Burlington Gardens, providing the university with laboratories and offices.

In 1863, with the fourth charter, the university was authorized to grant degrees in surgery.[38] This 1863 charter is still the charter under which the university is incorporated, although all its provisions were repealed under the University of London Act 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 62).

In 1878, the university set a precedent when it became the first university in the UK to admit women to a degree, through the award of a supplementary certificate. Four female students received Bachelor of Arts degrees in 1880 and two received Bachelor of Science degrees in 1881, another first in the country.[39]

University of London Act 1898
At the end of the 19th century, the university was criticized for only serving as a center for the administration of examinations, and there was a call for a “teaching university” for London. UCL and KCL considered separating from the university to form separate universities, known as Albert University, Gresham University and Westminster University. Following two royal commissions, the University of London Act 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 62) was passed, reforming the university and giving it a federal system and responsibility for reviewing course content and academic standards within its institutions. This was established in 1900 with the approval of new regulations for universities.[40]

In 2002, Imperial College and UCL confirmed the possibility of a merger, raising questions about the future of the University of London and its smaller colleges. Ultimately, strong opposition from the academic staff of UCL and Imperial led to the rejection of the merger.[57]

Despite this failure, the process of colonization continued. An important development in this process was the closure of the university’s alumni association in October 2003; it was recognized that the individual college membership was now a focal point for the alumni.[58] However, the university continued to grow even as it moved to the federal government, and, in 2005, agreed to the Central School of Speech and Drama.

On 9 December 2005, Imperial College became the second institution (after Regent’s Park College) to make the decision to leave the university. Its council announced that it was beginning negotiations to leave the university in time for its own centennial celebration, and to be able to award its own degrees. On 5 October 2006, the University of London accepted Imperial’s request to withdraw.[59] Imperial achieved full independence on 9 July 2007, as part of the college’s centenary celebrations.

The Times Higher Education Supplement announced in February 2007 that the London School of Economics, University College London and King’s College London all planned to start offering their own degrees, rather than degrees from the federal universities of London as they had previously done, from scratch . of the academic year starting in Autumn 2007. Although this plan to obtain their own degrees did not lead to the decision to leave the University of London, the THES suggested that this “raised new doubts about the future of federal university London.”[60]

The School of Pharmacy, University of London, merged with UCL on 1 January 2012, becoming the UCL School of Pharmacy within the Faculty of Life Sciences.[61] This was followed on 2 December 2014 by the Institute of Education merging with UCL, becoming the UCL Institute of Education.[62]

Since 2010, the university has been outsourcing support services such as cleaning and marketing. This has made Latin American workers work better under the “3Cosas” campaign (the 3Cosas – 3 things – being sick pay, holiday pay, and pensions for workers who work in university staff). 3Cosas advertisers are members of the UNISON trade union. However, documents released in 2014 showed that UNISON representatives tried to oppose the 3Cosas campaign in meetings with university management.[63] 3Cosas employees later transferred to the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain.

Following good results at the Research Excellence Awards in December 2014, City University London said they were exploring the possibility of joining the University of London.[64] It was later announced in July 2015 that City will join the University of London in August 2016.[65] It will cease to be an independent university and become a college like “City, University of London”[66].

University of London Act 2018
In 2016, changes were proposed that would see colleges become member institutions and allow them to become legally recognized universities in their own right. A bill to change the university’s statute was introduced in the House of Lords at the end of 2016. The bill was approved by order in the House of Commons, with MP Christopher Chope opposing it receiving a second reading without debate. he has no time. prepared for such an argument. Twelve of the colleges, including UCL and King’s, said they would seek university status once the bill was approved.[67][68] The bill was debated and passed its second reading on 16 October 2018.[69] It received royal assent on 20 December 2018, becoming the University of London Act 2018 (c. iii) [70] twelve colleges (that is, all except Courtauld, ICR, LBS, RAM and RCSSD) subsequently applied for status The university, despite saying that they do not intend to change their name, gives notice in the London Gazette on 4 February 2019.[71]

In 2018, Heythrop College became the first British academic institution to close since the ancient University of Northampton in 1265.[72] His library of over 250,000 volumes was transferred to the Senate House Library.[73]

In 2019, the University of London Press, founded in 1910, was reinstated as a full-time publisher specializing in “special education in society”.[74]

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If you’re not looking to commit to a full master’s, you can choose a shorter postgraduate certificate or diploma in a variety of subjects, with the option to progress towards a degree if you choose to. 

What our students say

“The support I have received from the School of Advanced Study has been outstanding in terms of support from my supervisors as well as support in further developing key skills for my current PhD research and my career.”

Beatrice Cannelli, UK

PhD in Digital Humanities

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“My favourite aspect of my programme was the fact that I could learn at a time that suited me and fit it around my own personal and professional commitments – and also learn from people all across the world.”

Elizabeth Eves, UK

MSc Global Health Policy

“Distance and flexible learning provided access to courses or programmes that are not available locally, allowing me to explore new topics and pursue my interests.”

Moiz Ali Khan, UAE

MSc Professional Accountancy

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MSc Accounting and Financial Management

Learn the core principles of accounting and finance and how to apply them to your job, so you can contribute meaningfully to financial decision making.MSc, PGCert and PGDip

MSc Clinical Trials

Analyse and understand decisions affecting the design, delivery and assessment of clinical trials – an increasingly important field in global health.MSc, PGCert and PGDip

MSc Computer Science

This master’s degree provides students with in-demand digital skills and a formal qualification in computer science.MSc, PGCert and PGDip

MSc Cyber Security

Gain essential foundation skills and hands-on experience with the latest industry case studies by studying this cyber security master’s degree.
MSc, PGCert and PGDip

MSc Data Science

Learn how to apply technology to real world data science problems and gain an in depth understanding of statistical analysis and computational techniques.MSc, PGCert and PGDip

MSc Epidemiology

Get ready to contribute to medical research and public health, developing the epidemiological skills you need to understand global health problems.MA

MA Global Diplomacy

Deepen your understanding of international affairs and contemporary diplomatic practice, with a specific focus on one of four global regions.MSc, PGCert and PGDip

MSc Global Environment and Sustainability

Explore how environmental sustainability policy and management can contribute towards achieving peace and prosperity for people and the planet.MSc, PGCert and PGDip

MSc Global Health Policy

Understand key global health challenges and learn how policy responses to global health concerns are planned and delivered.MBA, PGCert and PGDip

Global MBA

Earn a world-class academic degree accredited by professional bodies such as CMI and CIMA and join the next generation of global business leaders.MSc, PGCert and PGDip

MSc Health in Humanitarian Crises

Gain the knowledge and practical skills to improve the health of populations and communities affected by humanitarian crises, taught online by experts at LSHTM.MA

MA History, Place and Community

Explore the fundamental building blocks of human society and identity: communities, places and groups, with this master’s in History, Place and Community.MSc and PGDip

MSc Human Resource Management

Deepen your understanding of Human Resource Management and its role in the organisational psychology of modern workplaces.PhD and MPhil

PhD at the Refugee Law Initiative

Contribute to our understanding of international refugee law and policy with a PhD from the UK’s only academic hub dedicated to research in this crucial field.MA, PGCert and PGDip

MA Human Rights

Designed and run by activist scholars based at the Human Rights Consortium, this practice-based online Master’s will develop you as a human rights practitioner.MSc, PGCert and PGDip

MSc Infectious Diseases

Develop your understanding of infectious diseases through this degree, developed by academics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).PhD and MPhil

PhD at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

With guidance from expert supervisors from the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, undertake extensive independent research in law, policy and crime.PGCert

PGCert International Sports Management

Gain an in-depth understanding of the latest sport management strategies and the skills needed to work within the dynamic sport industry.PhD and MPhil

PhD at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Earn a PhD at a top research hub home to leading Latin Americanists with expertise in colonial and post-colonial history, cultural studies and more.PGCert

PGCert Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

This programme has been specifically designed for those teaching, tutoring and supporting the learning of students in higher education.LLM

LLM Drafting Legislation, Regulation, and Policy

Gain an understanding of the principles of legislative studies and an in-depth awareness of what constitutes legislative quality and how this can be achieved.MA

MA Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance Culture

Offered by the Warburg Institute in collaboration with the National Gallery, this master’s provides outstanding training in art history and curatorial practice.MA

MA Cultural, Intellectual and Visual History

Explore the cultural, visual and intellectual history of the Renaissance with this master’s, taught on campus in Bloomsbury at the renowned Warburg Institute.MA and MRes

MA History of the Book

Learn about the making, manufacturing, distribution and reading of books with a master’s degree in the History of the Book.Show all courses 

Unlock your future at Manchester with our exclusive International Admission and Sponsorship programs. Apply now to secure your spot at one of the UK’s leading universities and take advantage of tailored visa sponsorship opportunities, ensuring a smooth transition to playing in a world-class academic environment.

The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England. The main campus is south of Manchester City Center on Oxford Road. The university owns and operates major cultural assets such as Manchester Museum, the Whitworth Museum, the John Rylands Library, the Tabley House Collection and the Jodrell Bank Observatory – a UNESCO World Heritage Site.[8][9] The University of Manchester is considered a red brick university, a product of the city university movement of the 19th century. The current University of Manchester was founded in 2004 following the merger of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology ( UMIST) and Victoria University of Manchester.[10] [11] This followed a century of collaboration between the two companies.[12]

The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology began with the Mechanics’ Institute, which was founded in 1824. The University of Manchester now considers this date, which is also the founding date of the Royal School of Medicine and Surgery, one. of the predecessor institution of Victoria University of Manchester, as its founding year, as shown on its crest and logo. The founders of the school believe that all work is based on scientific principles. Therefore, the school educates people who work in the field of science that is related to their current work. They believe that the application of science will encourage innovation and progress in those businesses and services.[13]. Victoria University of Manchester was founded in 1851, as Owens College. The university’s academic research was published by Manchester University Press from 1904.[14]

Manchester is the third largest university in the United Kingdom by enrollment and receives over 92,000 undergraduate applications each year, making it the most popular university in the UK by application.[15] The University of Manchester is a member of the Russell Group, the N8 Group, and the Association of Research Universities in the United States. The University of Manchester, including its predecessor institutions, has had 25 Nobel laureates among its past and present students and staff, the fourth highest number of any university in the United Kingdom.

History

The University of Manchester traces its roots to the establishment of the Mechanics’ Institute (later UMIST) in 1824, and its heritage is linked to Manchester’s pride in being the world’s first industrial city.[16] The English chemist John Dalton, together with Manchester businessmen and industrialists, founded the Mechanics’ Institute to ensure that workers could learn scientific principles.

John Owens, a cloth merchant, left a bequest of £96,942 in 1846 (about £5.6 million in 2005 prices)[17] to found a college to educate boys in non-union lines. Owens College was founded by its trustees in 1851 in a house on the corner of Quay Street and Byrom Street which had been the home of the philanthropist Richard Cobden, and later housed Manchester County Court. Locomotive designer Charles Beyer became the college’s governor and was the largest donor to the college’s extension fund, which raised money to move to a new site and build the main building now known as the John Owens Building. He also campaigned for and helped establish a chair in engineering, the first science department to be established in the north of England. He left the college £10 million in his will in 1876, at a time when it was in dire financial straits. Beyer provided the total funds used to build the Beyer Building to support the Department of Biology and Geology. He also held an engineering chair and the Beyer Professorship of Applied Mathematics.

The university has a rich German heritage. The Owens College Extension Movement formed their plan after a tour of larger German universities and polytechnics.[18] The owner of the Manchester mill, Thomas Ashton, the chairman of the gym, studied at the University of Heidelberg. Sir Henry Roscoe studied at Heidelberg under Robert Bunsen and they collaborated for many years on research projects. Roscoe promoted a German style of teaching that became the model for red brick universities. Charles Beyer studied at the Dresden Polytechnic Academy. There were many Germans on staff, including Carl Schorlemmer, the first British chair in organic chemistry, and Arthur Schuster, professor of physics.[19] There was even a German chapel on the campus.

In 1873, Owens College moved to new premises in Oxford Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock, and from 1880 it was a constituent college of the Federal University of Victoria. This university was founded and granted a royal charter in 1880, being the first university in England; After Liverpool and Leeds became independent, it was renamed Victoria University of Manchester in 1903 and joined Owens College the following year.[20]

By 1905, both companies were large, active armies. The city’s technical school, the predecessor of UMIST, is the Victoria University of Manchester’s Faculty of Technology as it continues as a technical college offering advanced courses. Although UMIST obtained the status of an independent university in 1955, the university remained affiliated.[21] However, at the end of the 20th century, the connection between the university and UMIST decreased and in 1994 most of the remaining institutional connections were severed as a new law allowed UMIST to be an autonomous university with the right to grant its own degrees. Ten years later, the revolution was reversed.[5] Victoria University of Manchester and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology agreed to join forces in March 2003.[22][23]

Prior to the merger, Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST counted 23 Nobel Prize winners among their former staff and students, adding two more Nobel Prize winners. Manchester is traditionally strong in science; It was there that Ernest Rutherford discovered the nuclear nature of the atom, and the first computer to store computer programs in the world was built at the university. Famous scientists at the university include physicists Ernest Rutherford, Osborne Reynolds, Niels Bohr, James Chadwick, Arthur Schuster, Hans Geiger, Ernest Marsden and Balfour Stewart. Contributions in other areas such as mathematics were Paul Erdős, Horace Lamb and Alan Turing and philosophy from Samuel Alexander, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Alasdair MacIntyre. Writer Anthony Burgess, Pritzker Prize and RIBA Stirling Prize winning architect Norman Foster and composer Peter Maxwell Davies have all visited or worked in Manchester.

The current University of Manchester was founded on 1 October 2004 when Queen Elizabeth II granted her royal charter.[24] The university was named the Sunday Times University of the Year in 2006 after winning the first Times Higher Education Supplement University of the Year award in 2005.[25]

The president and vice-president of the new university is Alan Gilbert, former vice-president of the University of Melbourne, who retired at the end of the 2009-2010 academic year.[26]. He was succeeded by Dame Nancy Rothwell, [27] who had held the chair in physiology at the university since 1994. Nancy served as Vice Chancellor from 2010 to 2024 before handing over to Duncan Ivison. The Nancy Rothwell Building is named in her honor. One of the university’s goals stated in the Manchester 2015 Agenda is to be one of the top 25 universities in the world, following Alan Gilbert’s goal to “establish it by 2015 among the top 25 research universities in the world” world and well-accepted criteria. the best research and performance.”[28] In 2011, four Nobel laureates were on its staff: Andre Geim, [29] Konstantin Novoselov, [30] Sir John Sulston and Joseph E. Stiglitz.

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) announced in February 2012 the establishment of the National Graphene Institute. The University of Manchester is “one of the suppliers invited to submit a proposal to support the new £45m facility, £38m of which will be provided by the government” – (EPSRC & Technology Strategy Board).[31] In 2013, another £23 million of funding from the European Regional Development Fund was given to the company investing in £61 million.[32]

In August 2012, it was announced that the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences had been selected to be the location of the new BP International Center for Advanced Materials, as part of a $100 million plan to create industry-changing materials. [33] [34] The center will be aimed at promoting the understanding and use of various materials in the oil and gas industry, and will be presented at the space and conference, as well as the space in Manchester, and the conference based at the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[35]

In 2020 the university saw a series of student loan defaults and protests against the university’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, rent levels and living conditions in university halls. The protest ended with rent reduction negotiations.

In 2023, a second housing project and a student protest against the cost of university housing and living conditions in the halls began. The protests included occupations, protests and withholding of rent from students in university halls of residence.[36][37][38] The university’s response to the protests included the use of bailiffs to expel the offenders and disciplinary action against some offenders.[39][40] Despite the outcry from students – which included a referendum where 97% of students voted for the university to reduce housing costs, the following year the university continued to increase housing costs for its students.[41 ] Some buildings with universities increased by up to 10% in house prices, compared to the previous year.[42]

Campus

A university site has many of its facilities, often referred to as a campus, but Manchester is not a campus university as the concept is commonly understood. It is located in the city center and its buildings are connected to Manchester Bridge, as well as non-university buildings and roads in between.

The school has an area like a shoe: its foot is connected from the south-west to the north-east and is connected to the wide southern part of the boot through the area of ​​the overlap between the first building UMIST formerly VUM; 43] it has two parts:

North campus or Sackville Street Campus, based on Sackville Street in Manchester
South campus or Oxford Road Campus, centered on Oxford Road.
The names are not recognized by the university, but are commonly used, including around its website and corresponding to the old UMIST and Victoria University campuses respectively.

Fallowfield Campus is a residential campus in Fallowfield, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the site.

There are other university buildings across the country and the wider region, such as Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire and One Central Park in Moston, a partnership between the university and other partners that provides office space for start-up companies and meeting place and study center. ,[44]

How to Apply for Manchester University International Student Admission and Sponsorships

Manchester University / Admissions / How to Apply

All documents, except for transcripts, can be emailed directly to intladmit@manchester.edu

1. Complete Online Application 
   Manchester University accepts international applications submitted via our online application at apply.manchester.edu or via The Common Application at www.commonapp.org. 
2. Proof of English Proficiency
   International applicants must be able to read, speak, write and comprehend rapid idiomatic English.  We do not offer ESL instruction. Therefore, Manchester requires one of the exams listed below. The following are minimum guidelines used to determine sufficient test scores for admission:
   • TOEFL paper-based test=550
   • TOEFL iBT=79
   • IELTS=6.5
   • Pearson PTE=53
   • DuoLingo=110
   • SAT=400
   • ACT=20
     Testing locations and dates for these exams may be found on their web sites: TOEFL http://www.ets.org/toefl; IELTS www.ielts.org; Pearson PTE www.pearsonpte.com; DuoLingo https://englishtest.duolingo.com; SAT https://www.collegeboard.org/; ACT https://www.act.org. We require original scores sent from the different test administrators.
3. Official or certified copies of national exams
   We need copies of all national exams as proof of completion of secondary school. This includes national exams or “O” level exams, and “A” level exams.
4. Copy/scan of passport
   We need a photo or scanned copy of a student’s current unexpired passport.
5. Evidence of financial support
   Student and financial sponsor must complete the Affidavits of Financial Support and return those to the Admissions Office with proof of adequate funds to support you for at least one year.  Such proof includes bank statements, employer testimony of salary, or government support letters. 
   
6. Letter of Recommendation
   A letter of recommendation from an employer or teacher or the reference form from the Common Application may be used.  This must be in English.
   
7. Certified copies of marks, grades, transcripts
   Manchester will not accept transcripts directly submitted by students or institutions. All international transcripts must be submitted for evaluation to World Education Services. WES will then send Manchester University a copy of their evaluation. There is a fee for this evaluation that the student is in charge of paying and the evaluation can take 2-4 weeks. If you are transferring from a university outside the U.S., you also must have the transcript evaluated by World Education Services.  Admission and transfer of credits cannot be finalized until we receive the report from WES: https://www.wes.org/

What you need to know

There is no fee for applying online using  The Common Application.

This school is authorized under federal law to enroll non-immigrant students. Non-immigrant students, both first year and transfer, should complete the online application and send supporting documents to our office. 

• Application Deadline is May 15 for fall entry and November 15 for spring entry 
• Admissions decisions are made by June 15 or December 15
• Admission packets with the I-20 form will be sent by June 30 or December 30

Once admitted, the student should be prepared to submit a nonrefundable deposit of $500 USD by July 1 for fall entry, or Dec.1 for spring entry. The balance of costs for the semester must be sent to Manchester by Aug. 1 for fall entry, or Jan. 2 for spring entry. A summary of the balance due will be sent after the deposit is made for the first semester. After the first semester, Student Financial Services will post your billing online.

Failure to meet appropriate payment deadlines will disable the student to enroll in classes for the next semester and put the student out of visa status, which can result in termination of the visa and the right to remain in the United States.

Learn more about graduate and professional program admissions here.

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