Victoria University of Manchester
university
| Victoria University of Manchester link () | |
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| Successor | University of Manchester |
| Formation | 1851 |
| Extinction | 1 October 2004 |
| Headquarters | Manchester,England |
| English university. Merged in 2004 with the University of Manchester. | |
The Victoria University of Manchester, usually referred to as simply the University of Manchester, was a university in Manchester, England. It was founded in 1851 as Owens College. In 1880, the college joined the federal Victoria University. After the demerger of the Victoria University, it gained an independent university charter in 1904 as the Victoria University of Manchester.[1]
On 1 October 2004, the Victoria University of Manchester merged with the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) to form a new, larger entity named the University of Manchester.[2]