the Main Building; the others were added over the next thirty years. These include the Beyer Building (1887), the Manchester Museum (1887), the Christie Library (1898) and Whitworth Hall (1902), which is used for the university's graduations.
=== Other notable buildings ===
The University of Manchester estate includes over 30 listed buildings. Besides the buildings around the Old Quadrangle, other notable buildings on the Oxford Road Campus include the Stephen Joseph Studio, a former German Protestant church, and the Samuel Alexander Building, a grade II listed building erected in 1919 and home of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures.
Notable buildings on the Sackville Street Campus include the Sackville Street Building, formerly the UMIST Main Building, which was opened in 1902 by the then Prime Minister, Arthur Balfour. Built using Burmantofts terracotta, the building is now Grade II listed. It was extended along Whitworth Street, towards London Road, between 1927 and 1957 by the architects Bradshaw Gass & Hope, completion being delayed due to the depression in the 1930s and the Second World War.
=== Cultural institutions ===
The university's Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire is a World Heritage Site and home to the 76-m Lovell Telescope. Other cultural institutions at the university include the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, the Whitworth art gallery and the Manchester Museum. The special collections at the John Rylands Library, and the entire collections at the Whitworth and the Manchester Museum are designated under the Arts Council England's Designation Scheme as being among the "pre-eminent collections held in museums, libraries and archives across England".
== Organisation and administration ==
=== Faculties and schools ===
The University of Manchester is divided into three faculties: biology, medicine and health; science and engineering; and humanities.
==== Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health ====
The faculty is divided into the School of Biological Sciences, the School …
