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The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) was a university based in the centre of the city of Manchester in England. It specialised in technical and scientific subjects and was a major centre for research.
The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) can trace its origins to the Manchester Mechanics' Institution, founded in 1824 as part of a national movement for the education of working men.
The once-proud University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) has been defunct for almost a decade, but its former sight near Piccadilly hasn’t left us just yet. UMIST's Main Building (now Sackville Street Building) and the railway viaduct.
Explore the history of the UMIST Students Union, founded in 1910 for university students in the Faculty of Technology. The archive contains minutes, registers, publications and more from 1910 to 2004.
There is a need to provide an appropriate normative conception of the modern university: a conception which identifies its unifying purposes and values and, thereby, gives direction to institutional role occupants, governments, public policymakers and other would-be institutional designers.
Part of the prestigious Russell Group of universities, The University of Manchester is the largest single-site university in the UK, with the biggest student community.
Learn how chemical engineering was created and developed at The University of Manchester, from the Technical School in 1887 to the present day. Explore the research themes and achievements of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science.
