University of Leeds

The University of Leeds is a Russell Group university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1831 as the Yorkshire College of Science. Later it became simply the Yorkshire College, incorporated the Leeds School of Medicine and became part of the federal Victoria University alongside Owens College (which became the University of Manchester) and University College Liverpool (which became the University of Liverpool). In 1903 a royal charter was granted to the University of Leeds by King Edward VII.