Roscoe Court
4 Rodney Street
Liverpool L1 2TZ

Tel 0151 231 5090

recruitment@ljmu.ac.uk

www.ljmu.ac.uk

Sunday Times ranking 75= (86)

Teaching excellence 53.8%

Student satisfaction 70.6%

Head teacher ranking 85= (60=)

Peer ranking 72= (72=)

Research quality 17.7%

A/AS-level points 299

A-levels for entry 63.5%

Unemployment 8%

Firsts and 2:1s 47.1%

Student/staff ratio 18.9:1

Dropout rate 21% (18%)

Undergraduates 15,099 (4,805)

Postgraduates 1,435 (2,746)

Teaching staff 840

Applications/places 26,083/5,335; 4.9:1 (+8.2%)

Clearing entry 11.5%

Bursaries 65%: £410-£1,025

Scholarships: £1,000- £10,000

EU/overseas 4.1%/2.9%

Mature 20.7%

State school 96%

Lowest social classes 37%

Low-participation areas 25%

Live in 33% (100%) £60-£89

Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) has taken practical steps to prepare its students for the world of work when they emerge from its cocoon. Undergraduate entrants in 2008 will be the second year to have graduate skills development embedded in their degree courses. Proficiency in eight core areas is being developed, among them numerical reasoning, analysing and problem solving, personal planning and organisation and verbal communication.

Workplace learning, which takes the form of field trips, simulations and employer case studies, as well as more traditional experience, will also be a part of each degree. Students will be able to graduate with a Skills Statement denoting their competencies, as well as their degree certificate.

The three campuses – City, Mount Pleasant and IM Marsh are undergoing a facelift, with £100m of investment remodelling the entire university by 2012. Daily operations will not be interrupted, however.

With the backing of the BBC, Granada, Emap and Trinity Mirror, LJMU is developing the Liverpool Screen School, teaching practise-based television and film production, journalism, radio and news production and computer games, interactive media and animation. A building scheduled for completion in the next three years will bring the school under one roof but until then it will be housed at Liverpool Digital, a technology park on Edge Lane with filming, editing and postproduction facilities.

An Art and Design academy is set to open next year, coinciding with the year in which Liverpool becomes the European Capital of Culture.

Open days October 9 and 10.

Student view Jasmin Claydon-Wallace, students’ union president:

USP Our lecturers’ passion for teaching, and innovation.

Worst feature Be prepared for late nights and dodgy mornings.

Location In all corners of the city.

Social scene We sell the best snakebite and black in the northwest.

Rated excellent (14) Building; business and management; communication and media studies; economics; hospitality, leisure, recreation, sport and tourism; land and property management; molecular biosciences; nursing and midwifery; organismal biosciences; pharmacology and pharmacy; physics and astronomy; politics; subjects allied to medicine (health studies); teacher training.

Degree of student satisfaction: 70.6%

Law 78.1; Biology and related Sciences 78.1; Agriculture and related subjects 77.0; Politics 76.6; Sports Science 76.4; English-based studies 76.0; Education studies 75.3; Mechanically-based Engineering 75.1; Finance and Accounting 75.0; Economics 74.8; Sociology, Social Policy and Anthropology 74.6; Physical Science 74.2; Other subjects allied to Medicine 73.0; Other Creative Arts 72.5; Psychology 72.2; Communications and Information studies 72.2; Medical Science and Pharmacy 70.5; Business 69.4; Tourism, Transport, Travel and others in Business and Administrative studies 68.4; Electronic and Electric Engineering 67.7; Performing Arts 67.7; Teacher Training 66.8; Architecture, Building and Planning 66.5; Nursing 65.8; History and Archeology 65.0; Media studies 63.1; Art and Design 62.5; Computer Science 62.2; European Languages and Area studies 62.1; Social Work 47.0

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