Leeds Metropolitan University occurs as University with campuses in Leeds and Harrogate, Yorkshire. It inherit being as a hired university around 1992; before this date it was referred to as Leeds Polytechnic.

Leeds Polytechnic was formed around 1970 from either a merger of tetrad colleges. These were:

Leeds College of Technology. This was originally founded within 1824 as Leeds Mechanics' Institute and within 1868 became the Leeds Institute of Science, Art & Literature, late renamed Leeds College of Technology. Leeds College of Commerce (founded within 1845) Part of Leeds College of Art (founded within 1846), the remaning a share becoming Jacob Kramer College Yorkshire College of Education & Domestic science, originally founded around 1874 as the Yorkshire Step by step videos School of Cookery.

around the early Fifties the quaternary colleges were housed in a central places & in 1970 were incorporate to form Leeds Polytechnic. Inside 1976 James Graham College & a City Of Leeds and Carnegie College of Physical Education joined Leeds Polytechnic.

A City of Leeds & Carnegie College was itself formed whenever 2 institutions were merged inside 1968:

City of Leeds College of Education (founded within 1907 as City of Leeds Traning College) Carnegie Physical Traning College (founded inside 1933)

Inside 1998 the merger by owning Harrogate College established its Harrogate campus. Its number 1 logotype was an hooter (representing cognition) mid-flight by having the plant stem within its beak. This has been replaced within 2004 by the super un-owl-prefer rose. It used to become referred to as LMU however at present likes to be known as Leeds Met, even to refrain from confusion by owning London Metropolitan University.

Its Leeds campuses comprise a total of buildings in the city center known as the 'Civic Quarter' & a big places around Beckett Park in the suburbia called the 'Headingley Campus', which was a teacher how to training college & housed a Carnegie College of Physical Education, okay, called the Carnegie Faculty of Sports & Education. Beckett Park might get a university's independent campus. Brunswick Terrace houses Civil Engineering, though is to exist as sold hit before long. Good deal overhaul may choose place around a next threesome years, by using the recently Xx story Education Centre opening inside 2008, existence the tallest building in Leeds.

Prof Simon Lee is the Vice-Chancellor of the university. In July 11th 2005 Brendan Foster took over when Chancellor from either Leslie Silver OBE, the previous Leeds United chairman. the university recently opened a multi-million pound Learning Centre building known as within honour of Leslie Silver.

Around 2004 a university announced that it would non charge a to the full rate of £3000 by the season for tuition from either September 2006, unlike virtually all more universities in the united states. Recently it has established nigher links by using Bradford College in Bradford and intends to validate some of Bradford College's higher education courses.

A Student Union has a Met Bar & a Met Diner. Beckett Park has a Becketts Sports Bar & Coffeehouse. Leeds Met students make a point a brewery distribution network is saved occupy.