University of Leeds

University  of  Leeds

which eventually became the University of University College Liverpool which became the Liverpool

 In 1904, a royal charter, created in 1903, was granted to the University of Leeds by King Edward VII.

The University of Leeds is a redbrick university located in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Originally named the Yorkshire College of Science and later simply the Yorkshire College, it incorporated the Leeds School of Medicine and became part of the federal Victoria University alongside Owens College 

The university has around 33,500 students, the eighth-highest number of any university in the UK.

From 2006 to present, the university has consistently been ranked second in the United Kingdom for the number of applications received, second only to the University of Manchester.

The university is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities, the Group for research collaboration,

Leeds had a total income of £547.3 million in 2010/11, of which £124 million was from research grants and contracts.

 The university has financial endowments of £49.3 million  ranking outside the top ten British universities by financial endowment.

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 to the Association of , and Universities UK.

 in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise,the best result in the Yorkshire and the in 2010, Leeds was ranked as the 9th most targeted British university by graduate employers

Leeds is ranked nationally between 14th Times Higher Education and 

 Internationally, the university is ranked as the 32nd best in Europe and globally ranked 87th in the 2015 World University Rankings Leeds was ranked 8th in the UK

Notable alumni include former Secretary of State Jack Straw, former co-chairman of the Conservative Party , American actor Chris Pine, Piers Sellers NASA five Nobel laureates.

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 a ' Court on campus.

In 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 

The College of Science, on Owens College, Manchester, was established in 1851 as non-sectarian and was open to Protestant Dissenters, Catholics and Jews though not then to women

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 .

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 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

of Medicine and subsequently joined the federal Victoria University at Manchester in 1880 on 3 November 1887. Students in this period were awarded external degrees by the University of London

. 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 

Leeds was given its first university in 1887 when the Yorkshire College joined the federal Victoria University on 3 November. The Victoria University had been established by royal charter in 1880; Owens College being at first the only member college.[18] Leeds now found itself in an educational union with close social cousins from Manchester and Liverpool.

Unlike Owens College, the Leeds campus of the Victoria University had never barred women from its courses. However, it was not until special facilities 

The Victoria  University was a short-lived concept, as the multiple university locations in Manchester and Liverpool were keen to establish themselves as separate, independent universities. This was partially due to the benefits a university had for the cities of Liverpool and Manchester whilst the institutions were also 

were provided at the Day Training College in 1896 that women began enrolling in significant numbers. The first female student to begin a course at the university was Annie Clark, who studied Modern Literature and Education.

 1903, the then newly formed University of Liverpool began the fragmentation of the Victoria University by being the first member to gain independence. The University of Leeds soon followed suit and had been granted a royal charter as an independent body by

unhappy with the practical difficulties posed by maintaining a federal arrangement across broad distances. The interests of the universities and respective cities in creating independent institutions was further spurred by the granting of a charter to the University of Birmingham in 1900 after lobbying from Joseph Chamberlain.

Following a Royal Charter and Act of Parliament in