About University of Liverpool

Founded in 1881, the University of Liverpool is the original ‘redbrick’ university and a founding member of the prestigious Russell Group, associated with nine Nobel Laureates. With almost 30,000 students including 8,000 international students from over 135countries, Liverpool offers a diverse and welcoming place to live and study.

First-class, state of the art facilities and outstanding student support ensures the university is consistently ranked in the top 30 universities in the UK, having recently risen to 18^th (Complete University Guide 2025), and among the top 180 universities in the world (QS World Rankings 2024).

As a Russell Group University, research is central to everything. The university reinforced its place as a world leading research institution in the Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021), with 91 percent of the university’s research being classed as world leading or internationally excellent.

What this means for students is, Liverpool offers outstanding academic teaching, informed and delivered by inspirational experts, who are at the forefront of developments in their field. This no doubt also contributed to the university being awarded the highest rating of Gold, in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) 2023.

As a campus university at the heart of a vibrant city, Liverpool has it all, including award-winning student accommodation, and libraries, the sports centre and the Guild of Students that are never more than a short walk away.

Students might know the city of Liverpool as the home of The Beatles and Liverpool and Everton Football Clubs, but the city has a wealth of culture for students to explore beyond that. With more galleries and museums than any other UK city outside London, and an incredible range of restaurants, bars and shops to appeal to all budgets and tastes, there really is nowhere quite like Liverpool. If students want to explore other cities via train, they can get to London in around 2 hours 20 minutes and Manchester in 36 minutes.

What's new

The new University of Liverpool Advancement Scholarships provide up to GBP 10 million worth of scholarships for international undergraduate and postgraduate master’s students. Students could receive a discount of up to GBP 7,500 off their postgraduate master’s course tuition fees (specific courses). High achieving undergraduates can also save up to GBP 5,000 on tuition fees over three years, available across all courses.

Consistently ranked in the top 30 Universities in the UK according to Complete University Guide 2024 and The Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024, and top 180 universities in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2024. Liverpool was also shortlisted for the ‘University of the Year’ award in The Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024 and was the only university in the North West of England on the 2024 shortlist. The University of Liverpool was also awarded the highest rating Gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) 2023.

A recently published study by High Fliers Research Limited showed that graduates from the University of Liverpool ranked 20th out of more than 140 UK universities engaged with by recruiting employers.

The university now offers January start dates for a number of master's programmes in health sciences, and engineering, so if applicants miss the application deadline for September 2024, they can apply for selected programmes starting in January 2025.

Undergraduate students at the XJTLU Entrepreneur College campus in Taicang have the opportunity to study on the new Taicang Year in Liverpool programme starting in September 2024. This mobility programme is designed to enhance the academic and entrepreneurial skills of participants. It provides an opportunity to study a unique academic and skills-based programme that will expand horizons, provide students an international experience and give career plans a real boost.