Admissions In the academic year, the student body consisted of students, composed of undergraduates and postgraduate students. The university is consistently designated as a 'high-tariff' institution by the
Department for Education, with the average undergraduate entrant to the university in recent years amassing between 133–143
UCAS Tariff points in their top three pre-university qualifications – the equivalent of AAB to AAA at
A-Level. 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.
Rankings and reputation performance over the past ten years The university is ranked in the top 1% of universities worldwide according to
Academic ranking of world universities 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. In the Complete University Guide 2013, published in
The Independent, the University of Liverpool was ranked 31st out of 124, based on nine measures, while
The Times Good University Guide 2008 ranked Liverpool 34th out of 113 universities.
The Sunday Times university guide recently ranked the University of Liverpool 27th out of 123. In 2010,
The Sunday Times 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
QS World University Rankings 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
Round University Ranking. 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
SCImago Institutions Rankings. In the 2021
Research Excellence Framework (REF), which assesses the quality of research in UK higher education institutions, Liverpool is ranked joint 25th by GPA (along with
Durham University and the
University of Nottingham) and 19th for research power (the grade point average score of a university, multiplied by the full-time equivalent number of researchers submitted). The
Research Excellence Framework 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
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. The campus is situated in
Suzhou Industrial Park in the eastern part of
Suzhou in the province of
Jiangsu, 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==