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based in the city of

, England. Founded as a college in 1881, it gained its

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in 1903 with the ability to award degrees, and is also known to be one of the six '

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' civic universities, the first to be referred to as The Original Red Brick. It comprises three faculties organised into 35 departments and schools. It is a founding member of the

, the N8 Group for research collaboration and the university management school is triple crown accredited. Nine

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are amongst its alumni and past faculty and the university offers more than 230 first degree courses across 103 subjects. Its alumni include the CEOs of

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and

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. It was the UK's first university to establish departments in

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, civic design, architecture, and biochemistry (at the Johnston Laboratories). In 2006 the university became the first in the UK to establish an independent university in China, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, making it the world's first Sino-British university. Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University#cite note-0 For 2020–21, Liverpool had a turnover of £597.4 million, including £112.5 million from research grants and contracts. It has the seventh-largest endowment of any university in England. Graduates of the university are styled with the

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''Lpool'', to indicate the institution.

History

University College Liverpool

The university was established in 1881 as University College Liverpool, admitting its first students in 1882. In 1884, it became part of the federal Victoria University. In 1894

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, a professor at the university, made the world's first public

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and two years later took the first surgical

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in the United Kingdom. The

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was founded in 1899, making it the third-oldest

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in England. Students in this period were awarded external degrees by the

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University status

Following a

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and

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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

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and William Blair-Bell's work on

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in the treatment of cancer. In the 1930s to 1940s Sir

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and Sir Joseph Rotblat made major contributions to the development of the

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. From 1943 to 1966 Allan Downie, Professor of Bacteriology, was involved in the eradication of

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. In 1994 the university was a founding member of the

, 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

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, working on two of the four detectors in the LHC. In 2004, Sylvan Learning, later known as Laureate International Universities, became the worldwide partner for University of Liverpool online. In 2019, it was announced that Kaplan Open Learning, part of

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, 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. The university has produced ten Nobel Prize winners, from the fields of science, medicine, economics and

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. The Nobel laureates include the physician Sir Ronald Ross, physicist Charles Barkla, physicist

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, the physiologist Sir Charles Sherrington, physicist Sir James Chadwick, chemist Sir Robert Robinson, chemist Har Gobind Khorana, physiologist

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, 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 Professors 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. 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. Some students at the university supported the strike, occupying buildings on campus.

Campus and facilities

The University of Liverpool's Active Learning Lab (6)

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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. 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

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. There was formerly a marine biology research station at Port Erin on the

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until it closed in 2006. 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 Victoria Gallery and Museum, University of Liverpool. 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

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. New Central Teaching Laboratories for physics, earth sciences, chemistry and archaeology were opened in autumn 2012. In 2013, the University of Liverpool opened a satellite campus in Finsbury Square in

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, offering a range of professionally focussed masters programmes.

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, Physics and 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. 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 work spaces can also be found inside. The adjoining University Lecture Block building contains four lecture rooms and further social spaces.

Sustainability

In 2008 the University of Liverpool was voted joint seventeenth greenest university in Britain by WWF supported company Green League. This represents an improvement after finishing 55th in the league table the previous year. 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. 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. Liverpool was the first among UK universities to develop their desktop computer power management solution, which has been widely adopted by other institutions. The university has subsequently piloted other advanced software approaches further increasing savings. 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. The university has demonstrated an effective solution for this problem using a mixture of Wake-on-LAN and commercial power management software.

Organisation and structure

The university is ranked in the top 1% of universities worldwide according to

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and has previously been ranked within the top 150 university globally by the guide. It is also a founding member of the Russell Group and a founding member of the Northern Consortium. 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

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established in 1835 is today one of the largest medical schools in the UK. It also has strong links to the neighbouring Royal Liverpool University Hospital. In September 2008, Sir Howard Newby took up the post of Vice Chancellor of the university, following the retirement of Sir

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. The university has a

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to represent students' interests, known as the

. The university previously had a strategic partnership with

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, a

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collective, for University of Liverpool online degrees. In 2019 the university announced a new partnership with Kaplan Open Learning for delivery of their online degrees.

Senior leadership

The figurehead of the university is the

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. The following have served in that role: * 1908- ?:

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* 1948-1950:

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* 1951-1971: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury * 1972- ?: Sir Kenneth Clinton Wheare * 1980-1993:

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* 1994-1995: Alastair Pilkington * 1996–2009:

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* 2010–2013: Sir David King * 2017–present:

The professional head of the university is the

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. The following have served in that role: * 1903-1919: Professor A W W Dale * 1919–1926: John George Adami * 1926-1927:

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(acting vice-chancellor) * 1927–1936:

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* 1936–1937:

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* 1937-1945: Arnold McNair, 1st Baron McNair * 1945-1963: Sir James Frederick Mountford * 1963-1969: Dr. W.H.F. Barnes * 1969-1976: T C Thomas * 1977-1984: R.F. Whelan * 1986–1991: Graeme Davies * 1992-2002: Philip Love * 2002–2008: Sir Drummond Bone * 2008–2014: Sir Howard Newby * 2015–present:

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. Faculty of Health & Life Sciences * School of Dentistry *School of Health Sciences *School of Life Sciences * School of Medicine *School of Psychology * School of Veterinary Science Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences *School of the Arts *School of Histories, Languages & Cultures *School of Law & Social Justice *Management School Faculty of Science & Engineering *School of Engineering *School of Physical Sciences *School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science *School of Environmental Sciences

Academic profile

Rankings and reputation

In the Complete University Guide 2013, published in ''

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'', the University of Liverpool was ranked 31st out of 124, based on nine measures, while ''

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'' Good University Guide 2008 ranked Liverpool 34th out of 113 universities. ''

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'' university guide recently ranked the University of Liverpool 27th out of 123. In 2010, ''

'' 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

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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 ''

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''. The 2018 ''U.S. News & World Report'' ranks Liverpool 129th in the world. In 2019, it ranked 178th among the universities around the world by ''

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'' 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. 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. The Chemistry department was also ranked 1st in the UK with 99% of its research rated as 4* world leading or 3* internationally excellent

Admissions

In terms of average

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points of entrants, Liverpool ranked 40th in Britain in 2014. The university gives offers of admission to 83.1% of its applicants, the 7th highest amongst the

. According to the 2017 ''Times'' and ''Sunday Times'' Good University Guide, approximately 12% of Liverpool's undergraduates come from independent schools. 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.

Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

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. The campus is situated in Suzhou Industrial Park in the eastern part of

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in the province of

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, 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

Vine Court - University of Liverpool Accommodation

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 3 new on campus halls, while refurbishing existing accommodation. The accommodation offered currently by the university for 2019/2020 academic year are listed below: ; 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. 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. In 2021 "Gladstone Halls" was renamed after leading communist and anti-racist leader Dorothy Kuya.

Sport

The University of Liverpool has a proud sporting tradition and has many premier teams in a variety of sports. 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 scale. BUCS is the body which 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 ChampionshipsThe Christie Championships – SPORT
. University of Liverpool. Retrieved on 14 September 2011. and the Varsity Cup. The

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is an inter-university competition between Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester. The Varsity Cup is a popular "derby" event between

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and the University of Liverpool.

Notable alumni

Nobel Prize winners

There have been nine Nobel Prize Laureates who have been based at the university during a significant point in their career. * Sir Ronald Ross (awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1902) for his work with

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. * Charles Barkla (awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917) for discovering the electromagnetic properties of

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. * Sir Charles Sherrington (awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine in 1932) for his research into

neurons A neuron, neurone, or nerve cell is an electrically excitable cell that communicates with other cells via specialized connections called synapses. The neuron is the main component of nervous tissue in all animals except sponges and placozoa ...

. * Sir James Chadwick (awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935) for discovering

neutrons The neutron is a subatomic particle, symbol or , which has a neutral (not positive or negative) charge, and a mass slightly greater than that of a proton. Protons and neutrons constitute the nuclei of atoms. Since protons and neutrons behave ...

. * Sir Robert Robinson (awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1947) for his research into anthocyanins and

alkaloids Alkaloids are a class of basic, naturally occurring organic compounds that contain at least one nitrogen atom. This group also includes some related compounds with neutral and even weakly acidic properties. Some synthetic compounds of similar ...

. * Har Gobind Khorana (awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine in 1968) for his work on the interpretation of the genetic code and its function in

protein synthesis Protein biosynthesis (or protein synthesis) is a core biological process, occurring inside cells, balancing the loss of cellular proteins (via degradation or export) through the production of new proteins. Proteins perform a number of critical ...

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(awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine in 1972) for his discovery of the structure of

antibodies An antibody (Ab), also known as an immunoglobulin (Ig), is a large, Y-shaped protein used by the immune system to identify and neutralize foreign objects such as pathogenic bacteria and viruses. The antibody recognizes a unique molecule of ...

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Ronald Coase Ronald Harry Coase (; 29 December 1910 – 2 September 2013) was a British economist and author. Coase received a bachelor of commerce degree (1932) and a PhD from the London School of Economics, where he was a member of the faculty until 1951. ...

(awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1991) for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property rights for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy. * Joseph Rotblat (awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995) for his efforts with

nuclear disarmament Nuclear may refer to: Physics Relating to the nucleus of the atom: *Nuclear engineering *Nuclear physics *Nuclear power *Nuclear reactor *Nuclear weapon *Nuclear medicine *Radiation therapy *Nuclear warfare Mathematics * Nuclear space * Nuclea ...

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