Manchester Metropolitan University

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Manchester Metropolitan University


Motto	Many Arts, Many Skills
Established	1970 (Manchester Polytechnic), 1992 (university status)
Type	Public
Chancellor	Dame Janet Smith
Vice-Chancellor	Professor John Brooks
Students	32,475 ^[1]
Undergraduates	26,005 ^[1]
Postgraduates	6,210 ^[1]
On-Campus residents	{{{residents}}}
Location	Manchester, England
Affiliations	Alliance of Non-Aligned Universities, Association of Commonwealth Universities, NWUA, AMBA
Website	http://www.mmu.ac.uk/

Manchester Metropolitan University is based in Manchester, England. It is the third largest university in Britain after the universities of London and Manchester.

1 History
2 Present
3 Students' Union
4 List of Aytoun Campus Student Society Presidents
5 List of alumni
6 References
7 External links and sources

[edit] 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 became 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 and again in 2003 when the Manchester School of Physiotherapy became part of the Faculty of Social Care, Health & Education. The Alsager site is closing down and the land is being sold to fund development of the Crewe site.

[edit] Present

Buildings on the MMU Cheshire Alsager campus

The University now has over 21,000 full-time and 10,000 part-time students as of 2005, and hundreds of courses in over 70 subjects. It maintains five campuses in Manchester, as well as two in Crewe and Alsager in Cheshire. The university is currently selling off its smaller campuses and moving them to the larger sites at Didsbury, All Saints and Crewe. There are also plans to expand those three sites to accomodate the extra students and staff. The Elizabeth Gaskell campus is due to close at the end of the academic year 2006/07 with its students moving to Didsbury.

It includes the following faculties:

Faculty of Art & Design
Hollings Faculty
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. These are shared with the University of Manchester.

There is a renowned School of Theatre with an impressive cast of Alumni who are included in the list below.

[edit] Students' Union

Main article: MMUnion

The Students' Union is named MMUnion and has its main building on the All Saints campus. They have many student nights throughout the week.

MMUnion has an independent advice centre available for all students at the University as well an activities centre that runs the sports clubs and societies at MMU.

The union's magazine is called PULP but since this features mostly articles on the Manchester campuses, MMU Cheshire has created its own separate magazine called The Big Cow.