University Of Leeds
University Of Leeds
The university has 31,030 students, the eighth largest university in the UK (out of 165). From 2006 to present, the university has consistently been ranked within the top 5 (alongside Manchester University,Manchester Metropolitan University, Nottingham University and Edinburgh University) in the United Kingdom for the number of applications received Leeds had a total income of £639.6 million in 2014/15, of which £152.1 million was from research grants and contracts.The university has financial endowments of £66.7 million (2014–15), ranking outside the top ten British universities by financial endowment.The university is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities, the research collaboration the Worldwide Universities Network, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the European University Association, the White Rose University Consortium, the Network and and is also affiliated and Universities UK.For 2015-16, Leeds is ranked nationally between 14th (Times and Sunday Times) and 23rd (The Guardian). Internationally, the university is ranked as the 32nd best in Europe and globally ranked 87th in the 20 and 101–150 (201. Leeds was ranked 10th in the UK for research power in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, the best and between 2014–15, Leeds was ranked as the 10th most targeted British university by the UK's top graduate alumni include former Secretary of State Jack Straw, former co-chairman of the Conservative American actor Chris Pine The university's history is linked to the development of Leeds as an international for the textile industry and clothing manufacture in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era. The university's roots can be traced back to the formation of schools of medicine in English cities to serve the general public.Prior to 1900, only five universities had been established in England and one in Wales. These consisted of of Oxford (founded between 1096–1201), University of Cambridge (founded c. 1201), University of London (founded in 1836), Durham University (founded in 1832), and the federal Victoria University (founded in 1880); the University of Wales was founded in 1893.The Victoria University was established in Manchester in 1880 as a federal university in the North of England, instead of the government elevating Owens College to a university and grant it a royal charter. Owens College was the sole college of Victoria University from 1880 to 1884; in 1887 Yorkshire College was the third to join the universityIn 1831, the Leeds School of Medicine was established with the aim of serving the needs of the five medical institutions which had been established in the city. In 1874, the Yorkshire College of Science was created to provide education for the children of middle-class industrialists and merchants. Financial support from local industry was crucial in setting up the College and aiding the students. The university continues to these elements of its history; for example, there is still remains Court on campus.The College of Science on Owens College, Manchester, was established in 1851 as non-sectarian and was open to Dissenters, Catholics and Jews (though not then to women) since the Oxford and Cambridge, restricted attendance to members only of the Church of England. University College London was non-sectarian. The religious qualification ceased in the but the classics-based education continued at Oxford and Cambridge The Northern colleges continued to promote themselves as offering a general education that was progressive and pragmatic in nature as were the technical colleges of Germany and the ancient universities upon which they were The Yorkshire College of Science began by teaching experimental physics, mathematics, geology, mining, chemistry and biology, and soon became well known as an international for the study of engineering and textile technology due to the manufacturing and textile trades being strong in the West Riding). When classics, modern literature and history went on offer a few years later, the Yorkshire College of Science became simply the Yorkshire College. In 1884, the Yorkshire College absorbed the Leeds School of Medicine and subsequently joined the federal Victoria University (established at Manchester in 1880) on 3 November 1887 Students in this period were awarded external degrees by the University of London