The Victoria University of Manchester developed out of Owens College, which was founded in 1851, and from 1872 incorporated the Royal School of Medicine and Surgery, which had been formed in 1824 as a ...

Our coat of arms features our motto and was granted in 2004, when the Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST were both dissolved and a new institution, The University of Manchester, was created ...

The honour in fact belongs to New Zealander Sir Ernest Rutherford, who demonstrated atoms could be split during experiments at Victoria University of Manchester in 1919. Dr James Sumner ...

Formed in 2004 through a merger of Victoria University and Umist, the 40,000 student campus is one of Britain's largest and most prestigious. It is renowned for its medical, nuclear, and physical ...