Students and staff

Student numbers

• Undergraduate - 28,313
• Postgraduate taught - 7,552
• Postgraduate research - 3,573
• Alumni - 240,000 in 200 countries
• Continuing education attendees - 60,000 per annum

Students have access to:

• More than 400 different degree programmes;
• More than 9,200 rooms in 32 halls of residence, guaranteeing every first year undergraduate the offer of a place in University accommodation;
• One of the most generous ranges of scholarships and bursaries for undergraduate study in the UK;
• More than 4 million printed books and manuscripts, over 41,000 electronic journals and 500,000 electronic books;
• The UK's largest students' union.

Multicultural

The University, like Manchester itself, is a multicultural environment and home to around 7,400 international students from 180 countries (see table, right).

Schools

• More than 30,000 school students every year benefit from the University's outreach, inclusion and school and college liaison activities;
• Nine summer schools are organised every year for more than 800 students;
• More than 1,000 local schoolchildren have used our library access facility;
• 26,000 schoolchildren visited The Manchester Museum last year;
• More than 100 professional healthcare and science mentors provide one-to-one guidance for local school pupils.

Staff

There are 9,755 staff employed by The University of Manchester, making us one of the biggest employers in the North West. This includes more than 4,300 academic and research staff.

Breakdown of staff

• Academic - 2,444 (of which 489 are teaching only)
• Research - 1,877
• Administrative/management - 1,106
• Clerical/secretarial - 1,613
• Academic support - 1,668
• Manual/craft - 1,047  
• Total - 9,755

Senior officers

Chancellor - Tom Bloxham
Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Board of Governors - Mr Anil Ruia
Pro-Chancellor - Admiral Sir John Kerr
President and Vice-Chancellor - Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell

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