he University of Leeds is a redbrick university located in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Originally named the Yorkshire College of Science and later simply the Yorkshire College, it incorporated the Leeds School of Medicine and became part of the federal Victoria University alongside Owens College (which eventually became the University of Manchester) and University College Liverpool (which became the University of Liverpool).[5] In 1904, a royal charter, created in 1903, was granted to the University of Leeds by King Edward VII.[6]

The University of Leeds has around 33,500 students,[3] the eighth-highest number of any university in the UK.[7] From 2006 to present, the university has consistently been ranked second in the United Kingdom for the number of applications received, second only to the University of Manchester.[8] Leeds had a total income of £547.3 million in 2010/11, of which £124 million was from research grants and contracts.[9] The university has financial endowments of £49.3 million (2009–10), ranking outside the top ten British universities by financial endowment.