University

University of Manchester

Country

UK

Profile

The new University of Manchester is born of a merger between University of Manchester and the former UMIST or University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology. The University of Manchester is one of the largest traditional universities in UK and it has a famous brand name due to the famous football team.

Rankings

No. 27 on Times UK Guide

Singapore Partners

Singapore Polytechnic, SIM Global. Manchester Business School (MBS) Worldwide has its own mini-campus at Raffles Place.

The University of Manchester is on the Singapore Institute of Technology's university partners panel.

Programs Offered

Doctor of Business Administration, Master of Business Administration by MBS ; BSc (Hons) in Management with SIM Global; Bachelor of Science ( with Honours) in Optometry with Singapore Polytechnic.

Comments

The University of Manchester is definitely one of the best names in the global education market. The university aims to be one of the top 25 universities in the world by 2015 and is actively recruiting top professors to its faculty.

Rear-Admiral Teo Chee Hean, Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister & Home Affairs Minister, is an alumnus of University of Manchester and Imperial College. DPM Teo's father Teo Cheng Guan was former Chairman of OCBC Bank Singapore. DPM Teo studied at St Michael School and St Joseph Institution.

Another alumnus is Michael Tien, CEO of Atlas Sound & Vision, who studied the MBA in Finance part-time in Singapore. Michael Tien is an old ACS boy who inherited his father's business.