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University of Liverpool

{{short description|University in Liverpool, England}}

{{distinguish|Liverpool John Moores University|Liverpool Hope University}}

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{{Infobox university

| name = University of Liverpool

| image_name = Arms of the University of Liverpool.svg

| image_upright = .5

| caption = Coat of arms

| latin_name = Universitas Lyrpulensis{{Cite book |last=Anderson |first=Peter John |author-link=Peter John Anderson |title=Record of the Celebration of the Quatercentenary of the University of Aberdeen: From 25th to 28th September, 1906 |date=1907 |publisher=Aberdeen University Press (University of Aberdeen) |isbn=9781363625079 |publication-place=Aberdeen, United Kingdom |language=en-GB }}

| motto = {{langx|la|Haec otia studia fovent}}

| mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning{{cite web|title=University Regalia|url=https://www.liv.ac.uk/commsec/calendar/University%20Regalia.pdf|publisher=liv.ac.uk|access-date=26 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016212621/https://www.liv.ac.uk/commsec/calendar/University%20Regalia.pdf|archive-date=16 October 2015|url-status=dead}}

| established = 1881 – University College Liverpool
1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 2004. legislation.gov.uk (4 July 2011). Retrieved on 14 September 2011.
1903 – royal charter

| type = Public

| endowment = £193.8 million (2024){{cite web |title=Financial Statements for the Year to 31 July 2024 |url=https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/media/livacuk/finance/Review,of,the,Year,2024.pdf |publisher=University of Liverpool |page=46 |access-date= 17 December 2024}}

| budget = £705.3 million (2023/24)

| city = Liverpool

| country = England

| campus = Urban

| coor = {{coord|53.406|-2.967|display=title|type:edu_region:GB_scale:4000}}

| chancellor = Wendy Beetlestone

| vice_chancellor = Tim Jones

| head_label = Visitor

| head = The Lord President of the Council ex officio

| academic_staff = {{HESA academic staff population|INSTID=10006842}} ({{HESA staff year}}){{HESA staff citation}}

| administrative_staff = {{HESA non-academic staff population|INSTID=10006842}} ({{HESA staff year}})

| students = {{HESA student population|INSTID=10006842}} ({{HESA year}}){{HESA citation}}
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| postgrad = {{HESA postgraduate population|INSTID=10006842}} ({{HESA year}})

| colours = The University

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| affiliations = {{hlist|AACSB|AMBA|EQUIS|EUA|N8 Group|Russell Group|UASR|URA|Universities UK}}

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| logo = University of Liverpool logo.svg

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The University of Liverpool (abbreviated UOL) is a public research university in Liverpool, England. Founded in 1881 as University College Liverpool, Victoria University, it received Royal Charter by King Edward VII in 1903 attaining the decree to award degrees independently. The university withholds and operates assets on the National Heritage List, such as the Liverpool Royal Infirmary (origins in 1749), the Ness Botanic Gardens, and the Victoria Gallery & Museum.

Organised into three faculties divided by 35 schools and departments, the university offers more than 230 first degree courses across 103 subjects. It is a founding member of the Russell Group, and the research intensive association of universities in Northern England, the N8 Group. The phrase "redbrick university" was inspired by the Victoria Building, thus, the university is recognised{{by whom|date=May 2025}} as the original redbrick university.{{fact|date=December 2024}}

Liverpool was the first UK university to establish departments in oceanography, civic design, architecture, and biochemistry (at the Johnston Laboratories), and also the first to establish an independent university campus in China, known as Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.{{Cite web |date=2007-08-18 |title=Facts and figures: Our courses – University of Liverpool |url=http://www.liv.ac.uk/about/facts_and_figs/courses.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070818074933/http://www.liv.ac.uk/about/facts_and_figs/courses.htm |archive-date=2007-08-18 |access-date=2022-10-21}}{{cite web |url=http://www.russellgroup.ac.uk/our-universities/3779-university-of-liverpool/ |title=Our Universities – University of Liverpool |publisher=Russell Group |access-date=19 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801202347/http://www.russellgroup.ac.uk/our-universities/3779-university-of-liverpool |archive-date=1 August 2013 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=https://news.liv.ac.uk/ |title=University of Liverpool – News |publisher=News.liv.ac.uk}}Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University#cite note-0 The university has the ninth-largest endowment of any university in the UK and in 2023/24, it had an income of £705.3 million, of which £123.3 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £515.8 million.

As of 2024, the university holds four academic fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences and one of the British Academy.{{cite web |last1=Liverpool |first1=University of |title=Professor Sara Cohen elected British Academy Fellow |url=https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2024/07/18/professor-sara-cohen-elected-british-academy-fellow/ |website=News Liverpool |date=18 July 2024 |publisher=University of Liverpool |access-date=19 November 2024}}{{cite web |last1=Liverpool |first1=University of |title=Four Liverpool academics named Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences |url=https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2024/09/09/four-liverpool-academics-named-fellows-of-the-academy-of-the-social-sciences/ |website=News Liverpool |date=9 September 2024 |publisher=University of Liverpool |access-date=19 November 2024}} Ten Nobel prize laureates have been affiliated with Liverpool as alumni or academic staff, with notable alumni leading fields in medicine, law, business, engineering, arts, politics, and technology. Graduates of the university are styled with the post-nominal letters, Lpool, to indicate the institution.

History

=University College Liverpool=

The university was established in 1881 as College Liverpool, admitting its first students in 1882.{{cite web|url=http://www.liv.ac.uk/about/history/ |title=History of the University |access-date=10 September 2007 |date=27 March 2007 |publisher=University of Liverpool |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070902011543/http://www.liv.ac.uk/about/history/ |archive-date=2 September 2007}} In 1884, it became part of the federal Victoria University. In 1894 Oliver Lodge, a professor at the university, made the world's first public radio transmission and two years later took the first surgical X-ray in the United Kingdom.{{cite web|url=http://www.liv.ac.uk/about/history.htm|title=A brief history of the University – University of Liverpool|access-date=12 May 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090511032424/http://www.liv.ac.uk/about/history.htm|archive-date=11 May 2009}} The Liverpool University Press was founded in 1899, making it the third-oldest university press in England. Students in this period were awarded external degrees by the University of London.{{cite web |title=Student lists |url=http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections/historic-collections/archives-manuscripts/university-of-london-student-records-1836-1931/ |url-status=dead |access-date=11 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100914105055/http://www.shl.lon.ac.uk/specialcollections/archives/studentrecords.shtml |archive-date=14 September 2010}}

=University status=

File:Victoria Building, University of Liverpool 2019.jpg, opened in 1892 as the first purpose built facility for the university. The building was the inspiration for the term "red brick university" which was coined by Edgar Allison Peers.]]

File:Quadrangle, University of Liverpool (2).jpg

Following a royal charter and act of Parliament in 1903, it became an independent university (the University of Liverpool) with the right to confer its own degrees. The next few years saw major developments at the university, including Sir Charles Sherrington's discovery of the synapse and William Blair-Bell's work on chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer. In the 1930s to 1940s Sir James Chadwick and Sir Joseph Rotblat made major contributions to the development of the atomic bomb. From 1943 to 1966 Allan Downie, Professor of Bacteriology, was involved in the eradication of smallpox.

In 1994, the university was a founding member of the Russell Group, a collaboration of twenty leading research-intensive universities, as well as a founding member of the N8 Group in 2004. In the 21st century physicists, engineers and technicians from the University of Liverpool were involved in the construction of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, working on two of the four detectors in the LHC.[http://www.liv.ac.uk/news/press_releases/2008/09/CERN.htm Accessed 12 May 2009]. Liverpool University. Retrieved on 14 September 2011.{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080913004239/http://www.liv.ac.uk/news/press_releases/2008/09/CERN.htm |date=13 September 2008}}

In 2004, Sylvan Learning, later known as Laureate International Universities, became the worldwide partner for University of Liverpool online.{{cite web|url=http://www.uol.ohecampus.com/laureate/upload/file/PDF/press_releases_7_name_change.pdf|title=Laureate Online Education and K.I.T. eLearning B.V., the eLearning partner of the University of Liverpool, announce name change.}} In 2019, it was announced that Kaplan Open Learning, part of Kaplan, Inc, would be the new partner for the University of Liverpool's online programmes. Laureate continued to provide some teaching provision for existing students until 2021.{{cite web|url=https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/aqsd/collaborative-provision/laureate/|title=Laureate Online Education|access-date=11 November 2019|archive-date=30 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130125636/https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/aqsd/collaborative-provision/laureate/|url-status=dead}}

The university has produced ten Nobel Prize winners, from the fields of science, medicine, economics and peace. The Nobel laureates include the physician Sir Ronald Ross, physicist Charles Barkla, physicist Martin Lewis Perl, the physiologist Sir Charles Sherrington, physicist Sir James Chadwick, chemist Sir Robert Robinson, chemist Har Gobind Khorana, physiologist Rodney Porter, economist Ronald Coase and physicist Joseph Rotblat. Sir Ronald Ross was also the first British Nobel laureate in 1902. The university is also associated with Ronald Finn and Sir Cyril Clarke who jointly won the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award in 1980 and Sir David Weatherall who won the Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science in 2010. These Lasker Awards are popularly known as America's Nobels.{{cite web|url=http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/|title=Awards {{!}} The Lasker Foundation|website=The Lasker Foundation|access-date=29 September 2016}}

Over the 2013/2014 academic year, members of staff took part in numerous strikes after staff were offered a pay rise of 1% which unions equated to a 13% pay cut since 2008. The strikes were supported by both the university's Guild of Students and the National Union of Students.{{cite news |last=Akkoc |first=Raziye |title=Liverpool students hit by second lecturers pay strike |url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-students-hit-second-lecturers-6364894 |work=Liverpool Echo |date=3 December 2013 |access-date=28 February 2014}} Some students at the university supported the strike, occupying buildings on campus.{{cite news |last=Trew |first=Alannah |title=Liverpool students occupy campus buildings in solidarity with staff strikes |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/liverpool-students-occupy-campus-buildings-in-solidarity-with-staff-strikes-8983401.html |work=The Independent |date=4 December 2013 |access-date=28 February 2014}}

Campus and facilities

File:Foundation Building, University of Liverpool.jpg

File:Yoko Ono Lennon Centre, University of Liverpool.jpg, opened in 2022.]]

File:Abercromby Square, Liverpool.jpg

The university is mainly based around a single urban campus approximately five minutes walk from Liverpool City Centre, at the top of Brownlow Hill and Mount Pleasant. Occupying 100 acres, it contains 192 non-residential buildings that house 69 lecture theatres, 114 teaching areas, and research facilities.{{fact|date=December 2024}}

The main site is divided into three faculties: Health and Life Sciences; Humanities and Social Sciences; and Science and Engineering. The Veterinary Teaching Hospital (Leahurst) and Ness Botanical Gardens are based on the Wirral Peninsula. There was formerly a marine biology research station at Port Erin on the Isle of Man until it closed in 2006.{{fact|date=December 2024}}

Fifty-one residential buildings, on or near the campus, provide 3,385 rooms for students, on a catered or self-catering basis. The centrepiece of the campus remains the university's original red brick building, the Victoria Building. Opened in 1892, it has recently been restored as the Victoria Gallery and Museum, complete with cafe and activities for school visits.{{fact|date=December 2024}}

In 2011 the university made a commitment to invest £660m into the 'Student Experience', £250m of which will reportedly be spent on Student Accommodation. Announced so far have been two large On-Campus halls of residences (the first of which, Vine Court, opened September 2012), new Veterinary Science facilities, and a £10m refurbishment of the Liverpool Guild of Students. New Central Teaching Laboratories for physics, earth sciences, chemistry and archaeology were opened in autumn 2012.{{cite web|url=http://news.liv.ac.uk/2012/10/24/gallery-nobel-prize-winner-sir-paul-nurse-opens-ctl/|title=GALLERY – Nobel Prize winner, Sir Paul Nurse opens CTL – University of Liverpool News – University of Liverpool|date=24 October 2012 |access-date=31 May 2015}}

In 2013, the University of Liverpool opened a satellite campus in Finsbury Square in London, offering a range of professionally focussed masters programmes.{{Cite web|url=https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/london/|title=University of Liverpool in London – University of Liverpool|website=www.liverpool.ac.uk|access-date=17 April 2020}}

=Central Teaching Hub=

The Central Teaching Hub is a large multi-use building that houses a recently refurbished Lecture Theatre Block (LTB) and teaching facilities (Central Teaching Labs, CTL) for the Departments of Chemistry and Physics and the School of Environmental Sciences, within the university's Central City Centre Campus. It was completed and officially opened in September 2012 with an estimated project cost of £23m.{{cite web|url=https://news.liv.ac.uk/2012/08/17/new-23m-central-teaching-laboratory-unveiled/|title=New £23M Central Teaching Laboratory unveiled|date=17 August 2012 |access-date=31 May 2015}} The main building, the 'Central Teaching Laboratory', is built around a large atrium and houses seven separate laboratories that can accommodate 1,600 students at a time. A flexible teaching space, computing centre, multi-departmental teaching spaces, and communal workspaces can also be found inside. The adjoining University Lecture Block building contains four lecture rooms and further social spaces.{{cite web|url=https://www.list.co.uk/place/20004131-victoria-gallery-and-museum-university-of-liverpool/|title=Victoria Gallery & Museum – University of Liverpool|access-date=31 May 2015}}

=Sustainability=

In 2008, the University of Liverpool was voted joint seventeenth greenest university in Britain by WWF supported company Green League.[http://peopleandplanet.org/gogreen/greenleague2008 People & Planet – The Green League 2008] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150728035656/http://peopleandplanet.org/gogreen/greenleague2008 |date=28 July 2015 }}. Peopleandplanet.org. Retrieved on 14 September 2011. This represents an improvement after finishing 55th in the league table the previous year.[http://peopleandplanet.org/gogreen/greenleague2007/table People & Planet – People & Planet Green League 2007] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070710135819/http://peopleandplanet.org/gogreen/greenleague2007/table |date=10 July 2007 }}. Peopleandplanet.org. Retrieved on 14 September 2011.

The position of the university is determined by point allocation in departments such as Transport, Waste management, sustainable procurement and Emissions among other categories; these are then transpired into various awards.[http://peopleandplanet.org/gogreen/greenleague2008/methodology People & Planet – The Green League 2008: Methodology] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012082038/http://peopleandplanet.org/gogreen/greenleague2008/methodology |date=12 October 2008 }}. Peopleandplanet.org. Retrieved on 14 September 2011. Liverpool was awarded the highest achievement possible in Environmental policy, Environmental staff, Environmental audit, Fair trade status, Ethical investment policy and Waste recycled while also scoring points in Carbon emissions, Water recycle and Energy source.{{Citation needed|date=October 2008}}

Liverpool was the first among UK universities to develop their desktop computer power management solution, which has been widely adopted by other institutions.{{cite web |url=http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/powerdown/ |title=PowerDown |date=23 October 2008 |access-date=23 October 2008}} The university has subsequently piloted other advanced software approaches further increasing savings.{{cite web |url=http://www.datasynergy.co.uk/casestudies.aspx |title=University of Liverpool save estimated £70 per PC |date=23 October 2008 |access-date=23 October 2008}} The university has also been at the forefront of using the Condor HTC computing platform in a power saving environment. This software, which makes use of unused computer time for computationally intensive tasks usually results in computers being left turned on.[http://www.liv.ac.uk/csd/escience/condor/ University of Liverpool Condor Project]. Liverpool University. Retrieved on 14 September 2011. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100210042905/http://www.liv.ac.uk/csd/escience/condor/ |date=10 February 2010 }} The university has demonstrated an effective solution for this problem using a mixture of Wake-on-LAN and commercial power management software.[http://www.datasynergy.co.uk/CaseStudies/LiverpoolCondor.aspx University of Liverpool case study with Data Synergy PowerMAN software]. Datasynergy.co.uk. Retrieved on 14 September 2011.

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Sustainability Research (ICSR) was established in 2024 to tackle the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).{{cite web |last1=Liverpool |first1=University of |title=Interdisciplinary Centre for Sustainability Research (ICSR) |url=https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/research/interdisciplinary-centre-for-sustainability-research/ |website=News Liverpool |publisher=University of Liverpool |access-date=19 November 2024}}

Organisation and structure

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The university is a research-based university with 33,000 students pursuing over 450 programmes spanning 54 subject areas. It has a broad range of teaching and research in both arts and sciences, and the University of Liverpool School of Medicine established in 1835 is today one of the largest medical schools in the UK. It also has close links to the neighbouring Royal Liverpool University Hospital.{{fact|date=December 2024}}

The university has a students' union to represent students' interests, known as the Liverpool Guild of Students.{{fact|date=December 2024}}

The university previously had a strategic partnership with Laureate International Universities, a for-profit college collective, for University of Liverpool online degrees.{{Cite web|url=http://www.laureate.net/OurNetwork/Europe/UnitedKingdom/LaureateOnlineEducationBVUniversityofLiverpool#t1|title=University of Liverpool Online Programs (in partnership with Laureate Online Education)|website=www.laureate.net|access-date=29 September 2016|archive-date=14 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414195858/https://www.laureate.net/OurNetwork/Europe/UnitedKingdom/LaureateOnlineEducationBVUniversityofLiverpool#t1|url-status=dead}} In 2019, the university announced a new partnership with Kaplan Open Learning for delivery of their online degrees.{{Cite web|url=https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2019/05/13/new-partner-announced-for-universitys-online-learning-provision/|title=New partner announced for University's online learning provision|website=news.liverpool.ac.uk|date=13 May 2019|access-date=4 July 2019}}

=Senior leadership=

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The figurehead of the university is the chancellor. The following have served in that role:

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The professional head of the university is the vice-chancellor. The following have served in that role:

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=Faculties=

Since 2009, teaching departments of the university have been divided into three faculties: Science and Engineering, Health and Life Sciences, and Humanities and Social Sciences. Each faculty is headed by an Executive Pro-Vice-Chancellor, who is responsible for all schools in the faculty.{{cite web |url=http://www.liv.ac.uk/about/ |access-date=25 September 2009 |title=About the University |publisher=Liverpool University}}

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Faculty of Health & Life Sciences

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Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences

  • School of the Arts
  • School of Histories, Languages & Cultures
  • School of Law & Social Justice
  • Management School

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Faculty of Science & Engineering

  • School of Engineering
  • School of Physical Sciences
  • School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science
  • School of Environmental Sciences

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=Finances=

In the financial year ending 31 July 2024, the University of Liverpool had a total income of £705.3 million (2022/23 – £673.2 million) and total expenditure of £515.8 million (2022/23 – £662.5 million). Key sources of income included £367.1 million from tuition fees and education contracts (2022/23 – £342.5 million), £93.4 million from funding body grants (2022/23 – £94.6 million), £123.3 million from research grants and contracts (2022/23 – £118 million) and £22.7 million from endowment and investment income (2022/23 – £15.6 million).

At year end, Liverpool had endowments of £193.8 million (2023 – £182.7 million) and total net assets of £885.6 million (2023 – £679.8 million). It holds the ninth-largest endowment of any university in the UK.

Academic profile

=Admissions=

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|+UCAS Admission Statistics

!

!2024

!2023

!2022

!2021

!2020

Applications{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme}}{{cite web |title=UCAS Undergraduate Sector-Level End of Cycle Data Resources 2024 |url=https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/ucas-undergraduate-end-cycle-data-resources-2024 |at=Show me... Domicile by Provider |website=ucas.com |date=December 2024 |publisher=UCAS |access-date=7 February 2025}}

| 43,365

| 43,975

| 43,435

| 42,255

| 43,365

Accepted{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme}}

| 7,310

| 6,515

| 5,910

| 6,630

| 6,385

Applications/Accepted Ratio{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme}}

| 5.9

| 6.7

| 7.3

| 6.4

| 6.8

Offer Rate (%){{efn-lg|name=ukjune}}{{cite web|title=2024 entry UCAS Undergraduate reports by sex, area background, and ethnic group|date=7 February 2025|url=https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/ucas-undergraduate-end-cycle-data-resources-2024/2024-entry-ucas-undergraduate-reports-sex-area-background-and-ethnic-group|publisher=UCAS|access-date=7 February 2025}}

| 73.2

| 72.1

| 69.2

| 72.3

| 78.1

Average Entry Tariff{{Cite web | url=https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?tabletype=full-table&sortby=entry-standards | title=University League Tables entry standards 2024 |work=The Complete University Guide}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| 147

| 144

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|+ class="nowrap" |HESA Student Body Composition (2023/24)

Domicile{{cite web|url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-1|title=HE student enrolments by HE provider, permanent address, level of study, mode of study, entrant marker, sex and academic year|publisher=HESA|access-date=3 April 2025}} and Ethnicity{{cite web|url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/whos-in-he/characteristics|title=Who's studying in HE?: Personal characteristics|date=3 April 2025|publisher=HESA|access-date=3 April 2025}}

! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total

British White{{efn|Not be confused solely with White British}}

|align=right| {{bartable|57|%|2

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British Ethnic Minorities{{efn|Includes those who indicate that they identify as Asian, Black, Mixed Heritage, Arab or any other ethnicity except White.}}

|align=right| {{bartable|16|%|2

background:green}}
International EU

|align=right| {{bartable|2|%|2

background:blue}}
International Non-EU

|align=right| {{bartable|25|%|2

background:gray}}
colspan="4" data-sort-type=number |Undergraduate Widening Participation Indicators{{cite web |date=24 September 2024 |title=Good University Guide: Social Inclusion Ranking |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk-university-rankings/league-table |work=The Times}}
Female

|align=right| {{bartable|56|%|2

background:purple}}
Independent School

|align=right| {{bartable|12|%|2

background:orange}}
Low Participation Areas{{efn|Calculated from the Polar4 measure, using Quintile1, in England and Wales. Calculated from the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) measure, using SIMD20, in Scotland.}}

|align=right| {{bartable|11|%|2

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In terms of average UCAS points of entrants, Liverpool ranked 40th in Britain in 2014.{{cite web |url = http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?o=Entry+Standards |title = University League Table 2017 |publisher = Complete University Guide |access-date = 15 June 2016 }} The university gives offers of admission to 83.1% of its applicants, the 7th highest amongst the Russell Group.{{cite news |title = Which elite universities have the highest offer rates |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2016/10/19/which-elite-universities-have-the-highest-offer-rates/ |newspaper = The Daily Telegraph |access-date = 21 October 2016 }}

According to the 2017 Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide, approximately 12% of Liverpool's undergraduates come from independent schools.{{cite news |url = http://extras.thetimes.co.uk/gooduniversityguide/institutions/ |title = The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2017 |work = The Good University Guide |location = London, England |access-date = 16 August 2016 |archive-date = 29 November 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221129125021/https://extras.thetimes.co.uk/gooduniversityguide/institutions/ |url-status = dead }}{{subscription required}} In the 2016–17 academic year, the university had a domicile breakdown of 72:3:25 of UK:EU:non-EU students respectively with a female to male ratio of 55:45.{{cite web |title = Where do HE students study? |url = https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/where-study#provider |website = hesa.ac.uk |publisher = Higher Education Statistics Authority |access-date=9 February 2018 }}

=Rankings and reputation=

{{Infobox UK university rankings

| ARWU_N = 10–17

| ARWU_W =101–150

| QS_N = 27

| QS_W = 165=

| THE_N =23

| THE_W = 160=

| HRLR_E =

| LEIDEN_W = 94

| LINE_1 = 0

| Complete = 18=

| The_Guardian = 27

| Times/Sunday_Times = 23

| LINE_2 = 0

| TEF = Silver

}}

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The university is ranked in the top 1% of universities worldwide according to Academic ranking of world universities and has previously been ranked within the top 150 university globally by the guide.{{cite web|url=http://www.shanghairanking.com/Institution.jsp?param=University%20of%20Liverpool |title=University of Liverpool |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130516141502/http://www.shanghairanking.com/Institution.jsp?param=University%20of%20Liverpool |archive-date=16 May 2013 }} It is also a founding member of the Russell Group and a founding member of the Northern Consortium.

In the Complete University Guide 2013, published in The Independent, the University of Liverpool was ranked 31st out of 124, based on nine measures,The Independent newspaper, 24 April 2008 while The Times Good University Guide 2008 ranked Liverpool 34th out of 113 universities.The Times: [https://archive.today/20071103154551/http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/gug/gooduniversityguide.php] The Sunday Times university guide recently ranked the University of Liverpool 27th out of 123.The Times: [https://web.archive.org/web/20071011000203/http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/stug/universityguide.php]. 23 May 2008 In 2010, The Sunday Times has ranked University of Liverpool 29th of 122 institutions nationwide. In 2008 the THE-QS World University Rankings rated University of Liverpool 99th best in the world, and 137th best worldwide in 2009. In 2011 the QS World University Rankings{{cite web |url=http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2011?page=2 |title=topuniversities.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121227083349/http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2011?page=2 |archive-date=27 December 2012 }} ranked the university in 123rd place, up 14. In the Times Good University Guide 2013, the University of Liverpool was ranked 29th. Liverpool is ranked 122nd in the world (and 15th in the UK) in the 2016 Round University Ranking.{{cite web|url=http://roundranking.com/ranking.html|title=Round University Rankings 2016|publisher=RUR Rankings Agency|access-date=22 September 2016}}

The 2018 U.S. News & World Report ranks Liverpool 129th in the world.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rankings?page=14 |title=U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities Rankings 2018 |magazine=U.S. News & World Report}} In 2019, it ranked 178th among the universities around the world by SCImago Institutions Rankings.{{cite web|url=https://www.scimagoir.com/rankings.php?sector=Higher%20educ.&country=all|title=SCImago Institutions Rankings – Higher Education – All Regions and Countries – 2019 – Overall Rank|website=www.scimagoir.com}}

In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF), which assesses the quality of research in UK higher education institutions, Liverpool is ranked joint 25th by GPA (along with Durham University and the University of Nottingham) and 19th for research power (the grade point average score of a university, multiplied by the full-time equivalent number of researchers submitted).{{cite web |title=REF 2021: Quality ratings hit new high in expanded assessment |date=12 May 2022 |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ref-2021-research-excellence-framework-results-announced |publisher=Times Higher Education |access-date=18 February 2023}} The Research Excellence Framework for 2014 has confirmed the University of Liverpool's reputation for internationally outstanding research. Chemistry, Computer Science, General Engineering, Archaeology, Agriculture, Veterinary & Food Science, Architecture, Clinical Medicine, and English, are ranked in the top 10 in the UK for research excellence rated as 4* (world-leading) or 3* (internationally excellent), and also performed particularly well in terms of the impact of their research.{{cite web | url = http://news.liv.ac.uk/2014/12/18/liverpool-research-ranked-uk-top-10-2/ | title = Liverpool research ranked in UK top 10 | date = 18 December 2014 | access-date = 25 December 2014}} The Computer Science department was ranked 1st in UK for 4* and 3* research, with 97% of the research being rated as world-leading or internationally excellent – the highest proportion of any computer science department in the UK.{{cite web | url = http://www.liv.ac.uk/computer-science/ref-2014/ | title = REF 2014 Computer Science | access-date = 25 December 2014}} The Chemistry department was also ranked 1st in the UK with 99% of its research rated as 4* world leading or 3* internationally excellent{{cite web|url=http://www.liv.ac.uk/chemistry/REF-2014/|title=REF 2014 University of Liverpool Chemistry REF results 2014– Chemistry – University of Liverpool|access-date=31 May 2015}}

=Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University=

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In 2006 the university became the first in the UK to establish an independent university in China, making it the world's first Sino-British university. Resulting from a partnership between the University of Liverpool and Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University is the first Sino-British university between research-led universities, exploring new educational models for China.{{cite web |url=http://news.xjtlu.edu.cn/en/media-report/1732-xian-jiaotong-liverpool-university-exploring-a-new-education-model.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109084819/http://news.xjtlu.edu.cn/en/media-report/1732-xian-jiaotong-liverpool-university-exploring-a-new-education-model.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 November 2013 |title=LING JUNHUI in China Today No.9 September 2011, saved on Nov.9, 2013 |publisher=News.xjtlu.edu.cn |date=28 October 2011 }}

The campus is situated in Suzhou Industrial Park in the eastern part of Suzhou in the province of Jiangsu, 90 km west of Shanghai. It is a science and engineering university with a second focus in English, recognised by the Chinese Ministry of Education as a "not-for-profit" educational institution. The university offers undergraduate degree programmes in the fields of Science, Engineering, and Management. Students are rewarded with a University of Liverpool degree as well as a degree from XJTLU. The teaching language is English.

Student life

=University halls=

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The university offers a wide selection of accommodation that are on campus as well as student villages off campus. As part of a £660 million investment in campus facilities and student experience, the university has built three new on campus halls, while refurbishing existing accommodation.{{cite web| url=http://www.liv.ac.uk/facilities-management/campus-development/ |title=Campus development |access-date=31 May 2015 }}

The accommodation offered currently by the university for 2019/2020 academic year is listed below:{{fact|date=December 2024}}

; On-campus

  • Crown Place
  • Philharmonic Court
  • Vine Court
  • Dover Court
  • Tudor Close
  • Melville Grove

; Off-campus

Greenbank Student Village

  • Derby & Rathbone Halls
  • Roscoe & Dorothy Kuya Halls

In 2018, the university faced strong criticism from the student body that the university provided halls were too expensive, by the Cut the Rent campaign.{{cite web |url = https://www.thesphinx.co.uk/2018/10/cut-the-rent-students-say-no-to-the-rising-cost-of-halls/|title=CUT THE RENT: STUDENTS SAY 'NO' TO THE RISING COST OF HALLS |date=24 October 2018|website=The Sphinx|language=en-GB|access-date=7 November 2019}}

Privately accommodation owned Apollo Court ranked 3rd and Myrtle Court ranked 4th in the UK for value for money on a university review platform StudentCrowd.{{Cite web|url=https://www.studentcrowd.com/article/top-50-uk-student-halls-accommodation-value-for-money-2019|title=Best Value for Money UK Student Accommodation (2019) | StudentCrowd|website=www.studentcrowd.com|access-date=17 April 2020}}

In 2021 "Gladstone Halls" was renamed after leading communist and anti-racist leader Dorothy Kuya.{{Cite web|date=2021-04-27|title=Gladstone Halls to be renamed after Dorothy Kuya from today|url=https://thetab.com/uk/liverpool/2021/04/27/gladstone-halls-to-be-renamed-after-dorothy-kuya-from-today-61993|access-date=2021-05-05|website=University of Liverpool|language=en-GB}}

=Sport=

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The University of Liverpool has a sporting tradition and has many premier teams in a variety of sports.{{fact|date=December 2024}} The current sporting project comes under the title of Sport Liverpool and offers over 50 different sports ranging from football, rugby, cricket and hockey to others such as windsurfing, lacrosse, and cheerleading.

Many of the sports have both male and female teams and most are involved in competition on a national level.{{fact|date=December 2024}} BUCS is the body that organises national university competitions involving 154 institutions in 47 sports. Most sports involve travelling to various locations across the country, mainly on Wednesday afternoons.

Two other prominent competitions are the Christie Championships[http://www.liv.ac.uk/sports/clubs/christie.htm The Christie Championships – SPORT] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081003164145/http://www.liv.ac.uk/sports/clubs/christie.htm |date=3 October 2008 }}. University of Liverpool. Retrieved on 14 September 2011. and the Varsity Cup. The Christie Cup is an inter-university competition between Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester. The Varsity Cup is a popular "derby" event between Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Liverpool.

Notable alumni

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=Nobel Prize winners=

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There have been ten Nobel Prize Laureates who have been based at the university during a significant point in their career.{{Cite web|url=https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-taught/why/liverpool-pioneers/|title=Our Nobel Prize winners|publisher=University of Liverpool|access-date=17 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210923052009/https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-taught/why/liverpool-pioneers/|archive-date=2021-09-23}}

See also

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Notes

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References

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Further reading

  • Rigg, J. Anthony (1968), "A comparative history of the libraries of Manchester and Liverpool Universities up to 1903", in: Saunders, W. L., ed. University and Research Library Studies: some contributions from the University of Sheffield Post-graduate School of Librarianship and Information Science. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1968.

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