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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.
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.
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 the University of Manchester was created in 2004 by the merger of Victoria University and UMIST, the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. Explore the University's history, buildings, Nobel laureates, heritage heroes and bicentenary celebrations.
The University of Manchester Intitute of Science and Technology (UMIST) was established in 1966, but its origins date back to the Mechanics' Institution, formed by industrialists in 1824.
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.
