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The University grew out of the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµ Medical School (founded in 1828), Firth College (1879) and the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµ Technical School (1884). These three institutions came together in 1897 to form the University College of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµ, which in turn became the University of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµ in 1905.