Manchester University, one of the world's top eight universities, one of the world's top 50 universities, ranked 26th in the world, the first of the six famous "red brick universities" in Britain, and one of the founding members of the Russell University Group of the British Ivy League. Founded in 1824, it is located in Manchester, the second most prosperous city in England. There are 25 Nobel Prize winners among the alumni of this school. University of Manchester is a comprehensive university with complete categories and many departments, located in Manchester University Town. Manda's predecessor was UMIST founded in 1824 and Owens College founded in 185 1 (1880 was upgraded to University of Manchester in Victoria). After hundreds of years of independent development, these two world-class universities finally announced their merger on June 22, 2004 10, and became the University of Manchester today.