2005

• Sir Howard Bernstein (Doctor of Business Administration)
• Mr Tom Booth (Doctor of Letters)
• Mr Peter Saville (Doctor of Arts)

2004

• Ms Dawn Gibbons (Doctor of Business Administration)
• Mr Clive Jeanes (Doctor of Business Administration)
• Mrs Frances Lennon (Master of Arts)

2003

• Ms Evelyn Asante-Mensah (Doctor of Letters)
• Professor Edward Gregson (Doctor of Arts)
• Mr Geoffrey Muirhead (Doctor of Business Administration)
• Professor Peter Gacesa (Doctor of Science)
• Ms Sarah Bailey (Master of Science)

2002

• Dame Janet Smith (Doctor of Laws)
• Mr Jonathan Warburton (Doctor of Business Administration)
• Mr Jack Rosenthal (Master of Arts)
• To mark the holding of the 17th Commonwealth Games in Manchester in 2002, the Greater Manchester Universities (Manchester Metropolitan, Manchester, Salford and UMIST) conferred joint honorary degrees of Doctor of Letters on Sir Roger Bannister, Clive Lloyd CBE, the Rt Hon Donald McKinnon, Diane Modahl and Dr Mamphela Ramphele.

2001

• Professor Sir Harold Kroto (Doctor of Science)
• Mrs Mary McAleese (Doctor of Laws)
• Mrs Dianne Thompson (Doctor of Business Administration)
• Emeritus Professor Derek Torrington (Doctor of Business Administration)

2000

• Ms Felicity Goodey (Doctor of Letters)
• Professor Sir Martin Harris (Doctor of Letters)
• Mr Don McPhee (Master of Arts)

1999

• Mr Charles Allen (Doctor of Business Administration)
• Professor Colin Bundy (Doctor of Letters)
• Dato Ir Dr Haji Ashad Zaidee Laidin (Doctor of Letters)
• Mr Paul Hogarth (Doctor of Arts)
• Mr Tom Weatherby (Doctor of Letters)
• Mr David Hempleman-Adams (Master of Science)

1998

• Sir Kenneth Green (Doctor of Letters)
• Professor Theo Barker (Doctor of Letters)
• Sr Antonio Gil de Carrasco (Doctor of Letters)
• Lord Thomas of Macclesfield (Doctor of Business Administration)
• Mr Alex Ferguson (Master of Science)
• Ms Tanni Grey (Master of Science)

1997

• Mr Geoffrey Manton (Doctor of Letters)
• Professor Tom Lupton (Doctor of Business Administration)
• Mr Kazuaki Tazaki (Doctor of Business Administration)
• Mrs Yung Yung Buckley (Master of Arts)
• Mr Gregory Judge (Master of Business Administration)

1996

• Professor Sir Graeme Davies (Doctor of Engineering)
• Mr Robert Hough (Doctor of Business Administration)
• Mr Braham Murray (Doctor of Arts)
• Sir Cyril Smith (Doctor of Education)

1995

• Mr Robert Hopper (Doctor of Arts)
• Mr David Sainsbury (Doctor of Business Administration)
• The Rt Hon The Lord Woolf PC (Doctor of Laws)
• Ms June Maelzer (Master of Science)
• Mr Ronald Yeo (Honorary Fellow)

1994

• Ms Gillian Pugh (Doctor of Education)
• Emeritus Professor Ian Rogerson (Doctor of Letters)
• The Rt Hon The Lord Attenborough CBE
• Dr James Grigor OBE
• Mr Rodger Pannone

1993

• His Grace The Duke of Westminster (Doctor of Letters)
• Dr M J Frazer CBE
• Sir John Page OBE
• Sir Gilbert Thompson OBE
• Ms Bronson Ward CBE

1992

• Sir John Fairclough
• Sir Dennis Forman OBE
• Mr Mike Harding
• Mrs Laura Seddon

1991

• Professor Eric J Bolton CBE
• Mr Robert Lindsay
• Mrs Sally V Shaw