In 2006, the university became the first in the UK to establish an independent university in China, making it the first Sino-British university in the world. [8] [9] [10] A partnership between the University of Liverpool and Xi`an Jiaotong University, Xi`an Jiaotong University-Liverpool is the first Sino-British research-driven university to explore new educational models for China. [60] The university is primarily located around a single urban campus, about a five-minute walk from Liverpool city centre, atop Brownlow Hill and Mount Pleasant. On an area of 100 hectares, there are 192 non-residential buildings, which house 69 conference rooms, 114 teaching areas and research facilities. Ten Nobel laureates belong to both old and former faculties and the university offers more than 230 undergraduate courses in 103 subjects. [7] Alumni include CEOs of GlobalFoundries, ARM Holdings, Tesco, Motorola and The Coca-Cola Company. It was the first university in the world to establish departments of oceanography, citizen design, architecture and biochemistry at 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 first Sino-British university in the world. [8] [9] [10] For 2018-19, Liverpool had a turnover of £577.7 million, of which £98.7 million came from grants and research contracts. [4] It has the sixth largest foundation of any university in England. University graduates are designed with the postnominal letters Lpool to indicate the institution. In terms of average UCAS points for participants, Liverpool ranked 40th in the UK in 2014.

[56] The university offers admission to 83.1% of its applicants, the 7th highest among the Russell Group. [57] The University offers a wide range of housing located both on campus and in off-campus student villages. As part of a £660 million investment in campus facilities and the student experience, the University built 3 new rooms on campus and renovated existing accommodation. [61] The accommodations currently offered by the University for the 2019/2020 academic year are listed below: The University is among the top 1% of universities in the world according to the academic ranking of world universities and has already been ranked among the top 150 universities in the world by The Guide. [31] He is also a founding member of the Russell Group and a founding member of the Northern Consortium. In 1994, the university was a founding member of the Russell Group, an association of twenty leading research universities, and in 2004 a founding member of the N8 Group. In the 21st century, physicists, engineers and technicians from the University of Liverpool have been involved in the construction of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and have worked on two of the LHC`s four detectors. [13] In the Complete University Guide 2013, published in The Independent, the University of Liverpool ranked 31st out of 124, based on nine measures,[42] while the Times Good University Guide 2008 ranked Liverpool 34th out of 113 universities. [43] The Sunday Times University Guide recently ranked the University of Liverpool 27th out of 123. [44] In 2010, the Sunday Times ranked the University of Liverpool 29th out of 122 institutions nationwide. In 2008, the THE-QS World University Rankings ranked the University of Liverpool 99th in the world and 137th best in the world in 2009. In 2011, the QS World University Rankings[45] ranked the university 123rd, an increase of 14.

In the Times Good University Guide 2013, the University of Liverpool ranked 29th and Liverpool was ranked 122nd in the world (and 15th in the UK) in the 2016 university rankings. [46] During the 2013/2014 school year, workers participated in numerous strikes after workers were offered a 1% wage increase, which had been equivalent to a 13% wage cut for unions since 2008. The strikes were supported by both the university`s Student Guild and the National Union of Students. [18] Some university students supported the strike and occupied buildings on campus. [19] Following a Royal Charter and an Act of Parliament in 1903, it became an independent university (the University of Liverpool) with the right to grant its own degrees. In the following years there were important developments at the university, including the discovery of the synapse by Sir Charles Sherrington and William Blair-Bell`s work on chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer. From the 1930s to the 1940s, Sir James Chadwick and Sir Joseph Rotblat made important contributions to the development of the atomic bomb. [11] From 1943 to 1966, Allan Downie, professor of bacteriology, was involved in the eradication of smallpox. Two other important competitions are the Christie Championships[64] and the Varsity Cup.

The Christie Cup is a university competition between Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester. The Varsity Cup is a popular derby between Liverpool John Moores University and Liverpool University. The University is a research-based university with 33,000 students pursuing over 450 programs in 54 areas. It has a wide range of teaching and research in art and science, and the University of Liverpool Medical School, founded in 1835, is now one of the largest medical schools in Britain. It also has close links with the nearby Royal Liverpool University Hospital. In 2018, the university was heavily criticized by the student body for making available dormitories too expensive through the „Cut the Rent“ campaign. [62] Liverpool was the first UK university to develop its desktop power management solution, which has been widely adopted by other institutions. [27] The university subsequently experimented with other advanced software approaches that further increase savings. [28] The university was also a leader in using the Condor HTC computing platform in a low-power environment. This software, which uses unused computer time for compute-intensive tasks, usually keeps computers turned on. [29] The university demonstrated an effective solution to this problem using a combination of wake-on-LAN and commercial power management software. [30] The university previously had a strategic partnership with Laureate International Universities, a for-profit collegiate collective, for the University of Liverpool`s online degrees.

[32] In 2019, the university announced a new partnership with Kaplan Open Learning to deliver its degrees online. [15] Many sports have men`s and women`s teams and most are involved in competitions at the national level.