Originally evolved as a center of technology, art and design, the roots of Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) date back to 1824; It was founded as a university in 1992 and the fashion establishment includes 8 specialized faculties.
MMU hosts the third largest number of student programs in the UK and welcomes over 36,000 students, making it one of the largest student populations in Europe.
Manchester itself is also a famous centre of art, culture and creativity, and is consistently ranked as the number one city to live in the UK through the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Habitability Survey.
MMU itself has a total of 8,000 academics and concerned about “cultural production”, making it one of the largest artistic communities in Britain.
The achievements of the university, however, are not limited to artistic disciplines. MMU has the largest business school at the moment in the UK. In 2014, it was identified as a leading “new” university for its physical fitness studies in the effects of the Research Excellence Framework, while the establishment has long been at the forefront of advances in the early years of training and studies of the training years.
“Promoting diversity” is one of the fundamental values of the university, as is the emphasis on vocational training and employability.
MMU is also proud of its strong partnerships with corporations and organizations at the regional, national and foreign levels, adding the BBC and IBM. Many of its systems come with a one-year internship with these organizations, which the university believes contributes to its primary job. graduate fee.
Based on two campuses, MMU is in Manchester city centre with somewhere else in the city of Crewe, Cheshire. La university has invested heavily recently in infrastructure, resulting in a new student union building, new labs, a 10 million pound training and sports science center and a 6 million pound fresh arts center on its Cheshire campus.
The university’s 250,000 students come with actors and comedians Steve Coogan, Julie Walters and John Bishop, while poetry winner Carol Ann Duffy is the artistic director of her writing school.
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