Manchester Metropolitan University is a university in Manchester, England.

It is the third largest university in Britain after the University of London and the University of Manchester, with over 20,000 full-time and 10,000 part-time students as of 2004, and hundreds of courses in over 70 subjects. It maintains five campuses in Manchester, as well as two in Crewe and Alsager in Cheshire.

It includes the following faculties:

• Faculty of Art & Design
• Faculty of Food, Clothing & Hospitality Management
• Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education
• Faculty of Humanities, Law & Social Science
• Faculty of Science & Engineering
• Manchester Metropolitan University Business School
• MMU Cheshire

Most undergraduate programmes lead to a degree, diploma or certificate; some lead to an award of the EdExcel Foundation (formerly the BTEC) or to membership in a professional body.

The university's sports facilities are excellent, partly as a legacy of the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

History

During the last third of the 20th century MMU grew through the combination of several colleges, some of which were founded in the 19th century.

The mergers began on 1st January 1970, when Manchester Polytechnic was formed from Manchester College of Art and Design , the Manchester College of Commerce and the John Dalton College of Technology . On the 1st January 1977, the Polytechnic merged with the Didsbury College of Education and Hollings College , and on 1st January 1983 with the City of Manchester College of Higher Education . Having previously been a local authority institution, the Polytechnic because a corporate body on the 1st April 1989, as allowed by the terms of the Education Reform Act 1988 . It became a University under the terms of the Further and Higher Education Act, 1992 under the new title of "Manchester Metropolitan University". This new title was approved by the Privy Council on the 15th September 1992. The university grew larger still when the Crewe and Alsager College of Higher Education was merged on the 1st October 1992.

List of alumni

This partial list of alumni include those who attended institutions which became part of present-day MMU during its history.

• Steve Coogan
• Jenny Eclair
• Thomas Heatherwick
• Mick Hucknall
• Phil Ineson
• Peter Saville
• Julie Walters
• Carey Young

External links and sources

• Manchester Metropolitan University website
• MMU summary from Study Overseas Ltd., a consultancy funded by universities
• MMU summary from The Guardian
• MMU summary and statistics from The Times