The University of Leeds was founded in 1904, but its origins go back to t­he nineteenth century with the founding of the Leeds School of Medicine in 1831 and then the Yorkshire College of Science in 1874.

In 1831 a group of young m­en established the Leeds School ­of Medicine which meant that medical students no longer had to go to Scotland, London or overseas to stu­dy.

The Yorkshire College of Science was found­ed around 40 years later largely as a result of concerns by the wool and textile industries that the rapid development of new technologies in Europe posed a threat to the local cloth trade.
Access for all

For the sons of local families, it was one of the first colleges for students of all faiths and backgrounds. The College supported the values of the recently established University College, London and Owens College in Manchester. These had been set up to challenge the exclusivity of Oxford and Cambridge universities, which were predominantly for the Anglican aristocracy and gentry.

Faculty of Business
The Leeds University Business School (LUBS) is one of the largest, most influential business schools in the UK. The School's state-of-the-art home is at the western end of the campus, in the Maurice Keyworth Building. This beautiful site has been cleverly renovated and modernised, from its former function as a grammar school, to provide excellent facilities for learning, teaching and research.

Leeds University Business School : Combining an exceptional teaching pedigree with an innovative approach to course design, we deliver programmes that are both widely respected and relevant to the contemporary business environment.

Ranked in the world's top 100 (Economist 'Which MBA?' 2010) our business school is internationally renowned for the quality of its teaching, its research and its facilities.

We believe that high quality research and an excellent teaching staff are the foundations of a successful business school. We are ranked in the UK top ten for research according to the RAE (2008), and we have developed several research centres and groups that cut across traditional boundaries.

Faculty of Engineering
The University is home to one of the UK's top engineering faculties. We have an international reputation for our teaching and research, achieving exceptionally high scores in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).

School of Civil Engineering : - Professor Nigel Smith

    * Institute for Resilient Infrastructure
    * Pathogen Control Engineering Institute

School of Computing : - Professor David Hogg

    * Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Biological Systems
    * Institute for Computational and Systems Science

School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering :- Professor Paul Harrison

    * Institute of Microwaves and Photonics
    * Institute of Integrated Information Systems

School of Mechanical Engineering - Professor David Barton

    * Institute of Engineering Systems and Design
  * Institute of Engineering Thermofluids, Surfaces and Interfaces
    * Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (Joint with the Faculty of Biological Sciences)


Faculty of Medicine and Health
With more than 6,000 students, 1,500 staff and annual research income topping £35m, the Faculty of Medicine and Health at Leeds is bigger than many entire universities. Leeds has one of the largest medical and bioscience research bases in the UK, and is an acknowledged world leader in cancer, cardiovascular, psychiatric, genetic and musculo-skeletal research. Treatments developed in Leeds are transforming the lives of people around the world living with conditions such as HIV, TB, diabetes and malaria.
Quick facts

    * We produce world-leading research in each of our Institutes (RAE 2008)
    * Leeds is home to the National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network Coordinating Centre