University of Manchester UK

The University of Manchester is the UK’s largest single-site university with more than 38,000 students and 4,400 academic and research staff. The University has a rich academic heritage with no fewer than 25 Nobel Prize winners amongst its current and former staff and students. Rutherford split the atom here, the world’s first modern computer was built here in 1948 and the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to two Manchester academics for their discovery of graphene. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, the University was rated third in the UK for ‘research power’. It is one of the country’s most popular universites offering more than 500 undergraduate programmes across the full range of academic disciplines.