In 1851 Owens College opened in a house on Quay Street in central Manchester. It was named for John Owens, an unmarried Manchester merchant and industrialist who had died in 1846. He left most of his ...

The Victoria University of Manchester developed out of Owens College, which was founded in 1851, and from 1872 incorporated the Royal School of Medicine and Surgery, which had been formed in 1824 as a ...

His early education was obtained at Mill Hill School, from whence he proceeded to the Owens College, Manchester, then part of the federated Victoria University, where he graduated in the honours ...

And there’s a special program at Owens Community College to help train the next generation of technicians. The John Deere Tech Program has been a part of the curriculum at Owens for decades.