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Leeds Metropolitan University Civic Quarter Leeds United Kingdom LS1 3HE
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0113 812 3113
Brief history: 

The University can trace its beginnings back to 1824, when the Leeds Mechanics Institute was founded in 1824, becoming Leeds Institute of Science, Art and Literature in 1897, and afterwards the Leeds College of Technology. Leeds College of Commerce was founded in 1845, Leeds College of Art followed in 1846. The final piece in the jig- saw came in 1874 when Yorkshire College of Education and Home Economics was founded.

It was these four founding colleges that were amalgamated in 1970 to form Leeds Polytechnic. In 1976 James Graham College and the City Of Leeds and Carnegie College of Physical Education joined Leeds Polytechnic, which subsequently became Leeds Metropolitan University in 1992.