the former umist buildings are in the sackville street campus and those of the former university of manchester in the oxford road campus. there is a residential campus further south in the suburb of fallowfield. the earliest buildings of the university date from 1872 (west of oxford road) and they were occupied by owens college in 1873. since the 1950s the facilities for science and technology have occupied an area east of oxford road and the medical school was relocated there in the early 1970s.