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The University of Salford is a public research university in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, 1 mile (1.6 kilometres) west of Manchester city centre.The Royal Technical Institute, Salford, which opened in 1896, became a College of Advanced Technology in 1956 and gained university status in 1967, following the Robbins Report into higher education.
In September 2015, a multimillion-pound luxury student village in Salford opened for the University, it was named Peel Park Quarter after the park which is situated alongside. Features in the buildings included deluxe en-suite bedrooms and floor-to-ceiling windows which showcased views overlooking the park and the Manchester skyline.
This article comprises two lists of institutions in the United Kingdom ranked by the number of students enrolled in higher education courses. The first list, based on data from the academic year 2019/20, breaks down student enrollment by level of study, while the second list, from the more recent academic year 2021/22, provides a total student enrollment figure without distinguishing between ...
The university has held a link for Physiotherapy with the Professional Footballers' Association since 1991. [4] As of 2007 over 70 former professional footballers have graduated from Salford. In 2009 the PFA reported that they had 33 members undertaking the programme at the university.
Salford Business School is located 3 km west of Manchester city centre in the Maxwell Building on the Peel Park Campus of the University of Salford. As a business school it offers business management courses, [1] business services [2] and business focused research. [3] It is one of the university's four constituent schools.
For the 2009/2010 academic year the Student Direct began to split into its component parts, with the Manchester edition becoming "Student Direct: Mancunion edition". By the 2010/2011 academic year they had fully transitioned to The Mancunion and The Salfordian, the student newspaper of the University of Salford Students' Union. [4] [5]
Located near the university area of central Manchester, Parkway Gate block 1 is the third-tallest purpose built student accommodation building in Greater Manchester. [175] Outwood Wharf Tower 2 56 (184) 18 2018 Residential Ordsall Outwood Wharf Tower 2 is a residential development located in Ordsall close to the University of Salford.
The University of Salford has over 19,000 students, [141] and was ranked 81st in the UK by The Times newspaper. In 2007, the university received nearly 17,000 applications for 3,660 places, and the drop-out rate from the university was 25%.