![cover image](https://wikiwandv2-19431.kxcdn.com/_next/image?url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Victoria_Building%252C_University_of_Liverpool_2019.jpg/640px-Victoria_Building%252C_University_of_Liverpool_2019.jpg&w=640&q=50)
Red brick university
Term for British universities founded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about Red Brick universities?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
A red brick university (or redbrick university) was originally one of the nine civic universities founded in the major industrial cities of England in the 19th century.[2][3]
![Thumb image](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Victoria_Building%2C_University_of_Liverpool_2019.jpg/640px-Victoria_Building%2C_University_of_Liverpool_2019.jpg)
![Thumb image](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Aston_Webb_Hall%2C_Birmingham_University.jpg/320px-Aston_Webb_Hall%2C_Birmingham_University.jpg)
![Thumb image](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/UMIST_Sackville_Street_Building.jpg/320px-UMIST_Sackville_Street_Building.jpg)
However, with the 1960s proliferation of plate glass universities and the reclassification of polytechnics in the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 as post-1992 universities, all British universities founded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in major cities are now sometimes referred to as "red brick".[4]
Six of the original redbrick institutions, or their predecessor institutes, gained university status before World War I and were initially established as civic science or engineering colleges.[5][6][7][8][9][10] Eight of the nine original institutions are members of the Russell Group.[11]