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Why Manchester Met?
Achieve your ambitions in one of the world’s most creative and inventive cities.
Is Manchester Met a good university?
At Manchester Met you’ll find a student experience as individual as you are. We’ve been awarded Gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) and named the 10th best university in the UK and 6th for course quality by Uni Compare (2025).
You’ll join a diverse and welcoming student community in the heart of Manchester, the UK’s third best student city (QS Best Student Cities 2023).
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93%
of our former students are either in employment or further education
Graduate Outcomes survey 2020/21
93%
of our former students are either in employment or further education
Graduate Outcomes survey 2020/21
I was blown away by all the facilities and by passionate tutors who want to share their wealth of knowledge and experience.
Tom Ibbott
BA (Hons) Primary Education
I was blown away by all the facilities and by passionate tutors who want to share their wealth of knowledge and experience.
Tom Ibbott
BA (Hons) Primary Education
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Discover Manchester
It's official - the QS Best Student Cities 2024 ranks Manchester as the third-best student city in the UK. Here, you can meet all kinds of like-minded people, make friends for life, and enjoy a whole catalogue of unforgettable experiences.![Guy Garvey](https://www.mmu.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/testimonial_5050/public/2020-06/guy-garvey.jpg?h=06ac0d8c&itok=yn7Kx55b)
One of the things I love most about Manchester is this fresh influx of big brains every year, always around the time the summer is turning cold. I’ve written countless poems about the Manchester student body arriving.
Guy Garvey, Visiting Professor