Foundation Building 765
Brownlow Hill
Liverpool L69 7ZX

Tel 0151 794 5928

ugrecruitment@liv.ac.uk

www.liv.ac.uk

Sunday Times ranking 27 (31)

Teaching excellence 60%

Student satisfaction 73.4%

Head teacher ranking 25 (21)

Peer ranking 32= (32)

Research quality 65.4%

A/AS-level points 373

A-levels for entry 91%

Unemployment 4.2%

Firsts and 2:1s 73.2%

Student/staff ratio 13.9:1

Dropout rate 9% (10%)

World ranking 139

Undergraduates 13,705 (3,363)

Postgraduates 1,674 (2,025)

Teaching staff 1,040

Applications/places 30,015/4,213; 7.1:1 (+10.4%)

Clearing entry 8%

Bursaries 30%: £1,000-£1,300

Scholarships

Variable: £1,500-£2,000

EU/overseas 3.3%/7%

Mature 13.1%

State school 86%

Lowest social classes 24%

Low-participation areas 13%

Live in 20% (100%) £69-£111

With universities occupying such central positions in the cultural life of the towns and cities where they are located, it should come as no surprise that the University of Liverpool should sell hard the city’s tenure as European Capital of Culture 2008. And it makes an even more compelling case than usual for being a student here.

Liverpool is one of the 20 members of the Russell Group of research-led universities, the nearest thing Britain has to an Ivy League, and is investing heavily in its future, with £200m of works radically changing its central site.

By next September a £36m makeover of the faculty of engineering will have created an active learning laboratory. While chemistry struggles to fill places elsewhere, a £17m spend on facilities and world-class researchers keeps its profile high here.

It offers scholarships worth £1,500 a year to those achieving AAB at A-level who enrol to study the following: engineering (covering aerospace, materials science, mechanical and manufacturing, civil, and electrical and electronic engineering), avionic systems, biomaterials, medical electronics, mechatronics, chemistry, physics, computer science, and earth and ocean science.

Liverpool is one of the biggest healthcare trainers in the country. It offers foundation year programmes for many health disciplines, including, unusually, medicine and dentistry. New money from the funding council and the Department of Health is supporting 50 more medical students from next year (based at Lancaster University) and 32 dental students (at the University of Central Lancashire). Overall, there are 300 degree courses to choose from across 31 subject areas.

Sports facilities are commensurate with this sports-mad city’s obsession. Seventy-four acres of sports grounds are home to 21 grass (and two all-weather) pitches for football, rugby, cricket, lacrosse and hockey. Sports scholarships worth £2,000 a year will be offered from this month.

Open days September 29.

Student view Tom Whelligan-Fell, students’ guild officer:

USP We are one of the Russell Group universities.

Worst feature The perception of Liverpool.

Location In the heart of the city, with lots of green spaces too.

Social scene Football, bars, clubs and gigs, the capital of culture.

Rated excellent (23) Allied health professions (occupational therapy, orthoptics, physiotherapy, radiography); anatomy and physiology; archeology; business and management; civil engineering; classics and ancient history; communication and media studies; economics; English; environmental sciences; French; geology; history; law; maths, statistics and operational research; medicine; nursing; philosophy; physics and astronomy; politics; psychology; town and country planning and landscape; veterinary medicine.

Degree of student satisfaction: 73.4%

Medical Science and Pharmacy 82.7; History and Archeology 82.0; Communications and Information studies 81.1; Physical Science 80.0; Mathematical Sciences 78.8; Human and Social Geography 77.6; European Languages and Area studies 77.5; Physical Geography and Environmental Science 77.4; Biology and related Sciences 77.0; English-based studies 77.0; Psychology 75.9; Finance and Accounting 74.5; Performing Arts 73.4; Law 72.4; Philosophy, Theology and Religious studies 71.7; Business 70.8; Veterinary Sciences 70.4; Combined 70.1; Medicine and Dentistry 66.7; Architecture, Building and Planning 66.1; Politics 64.6

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