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COURSES FOR 2020 INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS POSTGRADUATE One of the most affordable and safe student cities ❚ A globally recognised university in the UK, Liverpool is packed with attractions. There’s a legendary music scene that’s bigger than ❚ Ranked in the top 150 Universities under the Beatles; a city centre brimming with clubs, pubs, 50 years old in the world bars, restaurants and cafés; award-winning shopping (Young University Rankings 2019, LIVERPOOL facilities, museums, galleries and theatres, not to mention two Premier League football clubs, golf Times Higher Education) courses, beautiful parks and outstanding countryside just a short drive away. ❚ The University has invested over £160 million over the last 10 years in new capital projects A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE, Come to study in this magnificent city and you are guaranteed a second home for life. and modernising existing buildings and facilities When it comes to exploring Liverpool, there are plenty of ❚ All new LJMU international students are opportunities to get involved with the city’s culture and guaranteed a place in high quality University- A GREAT PLACE TO STUDY arts scene during your studies. Listen to live concerts of all genres from classical orchestras to local bands, watch a approved student accommodation performance in one of the city’s many theatres or visit our great art galleries and museums with exhibitions to suit everyone’s interests. As an LJMU student, you will have world-class attractions and exciting events on your doorstep to enjoy all year round. Throughout your application we will take great care to make sure you have all the information and support you need to plan for your studies at LJMU. This includes advice on immigration procedures, travel, accommodation or any other information you might need. 2 n LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY T: +44 (0)151 231 5090 E: [email protected] T: +44 (0)151 231 5090 E: [email protected] LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY n 1 Throughout our history we have Moores, who turned his love of football into WE’VE BEEN GOING championed education for all; from our a business empire that was worth millions. earliest students in the nineteenth century Born into a working class family, he proved through to today’s skilled graduates, who that, with vision and hard work, anyone can A are driving forward twenty-first century achieve success. LONG TIME innovations and economic success, both in the UK and overseas. So if you have talent and are willing to LJMU can trace its roots back to 1823 and the foundation of Liverpool Mechanics’ and work hard and grasp every opportunity that Apprentices’ Library. We’ve come a long way since then, becoming a university in 1992 and We take our name from one of the UK’s comes your way, we are the University that now, 129 of our courses are ranked in the UK top 50*. most successful businessmen, Sir John can help you achieve your ambitions. Liverpool Polytechnic: College of Building: Liverpool Mechanics’ During Liverpool Poly’s School of Science Construction courses in official designation ceremony, and Apprentices’ Liverpool School of F.L. Calder College - I.M. Marsh College of (1861) and the Liverpool were initially student protesters threw Library: Pharmacy: Physical Training: Colleges of Liverpool Training aimed at apprentices eggs and chanted “School With their mantra of Entry requirements for The First World War brought Technology School for Cookery: working in the building milk, school meals” at the ‘knowledge is power’, an influx of female students students were a bit different (1892-1969): Florence Nightingale called trades. Today, this story Minister for Education, it’s not surprising that who, according to the back in the 1900s. Not only has come full circle, with The founder of the Fanny Calder (pictured Margaret Thatcher, some critics thought the School’s Principal ‘Humph’ did students have to be the University continuing first science college below) the ‘patron saint in protest at cuts to universal mechanics institutes Jones (pictured below), ‘gentlewomen’ but they had to support workforce in Liverpool studied of laundry, cooking and free school milk. were dangerous, were easier to teach (and to be over five foot three development through new alongside the inventor of health’. revolutionary much tidier) than their male as well. degree apprenticeships. establishments. counterparts. the Oxo cube in Germany. 1945- 1951- 1966- 1970- 1992- 1823 1825 1849 1852 1861- 1862 1875 1898- 1900 1969 1970 1983 1970 1978 1992 now Liverpool Mechanics’ Nautical School School and College School and College C.F. Mott College of Ethel Wormald Liverpool John Institute and School of and College: of Nursing and of Commerce: Education and COLCHE College of Moores University: Arts: Professional education Midwifery: After the First World (City of Liverpool Education: Over the last 28 years, Classes were initially for mariners was In the 1860s, trainee War, the College College of Higher It is ironic that the this ‘new’ university restricted to men but within initially dismissed as a nurses were given an began to offer courses Education): woman who was learned how to ‘dream, a decade of opening women ‘fad’ in the nineteenth allowance of three for both men and Students were originally denied an opportunity plan, achieve’, evolving began to attend lectures century, with pints of beer a day. women who wanted a housed in temporary ‘Horsa of serving as a teacher into today’s modern civic too. In the 1880s it became critics comparing commercial career. huts’ in the grounds of The in 1923 because she university with ambitious one of the first art schools educated sailors to Hazels, which had been got married became plans for the future. to let female students draw ‘professors’ on Gilbert home to many wealthy the personification of life models, both male and and Sullivan’s HMS families since 1764. education in Liverpool in female. Pinafore. the Fifties and Sixties. *The Guardian University Guide 2020 2 n LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY T: +44 (0)151 231 5090 E: [email protected] T: +44 (0)151 231 5090 E: [email protected] LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY n 3 10 FACTS ABOUT LJMU OVER 20,000+ RANKED IN THE WORLD STUDENTS 95 % TOP OF STUDENTS 50 TOP 150 IN WORK OR UNIVERSITIES UNDER FURTHER 129 OF OUR COURSES ARE 200+ STUDY WITHIN RANKED TOP 50 IN THE UNDERGRADUATE THE AGE OF 50 6 MONTHS OF GUARDIAN UNIVERSITY COURSES Times Higher Education Young University Rankings 2019 GRADUATION LEAGUE TABLES 2020 DLHE Survey 2016/17 FIRST UNIVERSITY AWARDED ANNUALLY CLUBS TO RECEIVE IN SCHOLARSHIPS, AND RANKED PRIZES AND +SOCIETIES TWO £4M HARDSHIP FUNDS 100 COMMENDED LJMU OUTPERFORMS OF STUDENTS THE SECTOR AVERAGE FOR JUDGEMENTS STUDENT SATISFACTION IN: BY THE QAA* SURVEYED SAID #6 LIVERPOOL IS ONE OF THEY WERE ❚ ACADEMIC SUPPORT ❚ LEARNING RESOURCES THE MOST AFFORDABLE SATISFIED WITH ❚ THEIR OVERALL LISTENING TO THE UNIVERSITY CITIES IN STUDENT VOICE THE UK – RANKED LJMU STUDENT ❚ ITS INCLUSIVE STUDENT 84 % EXPERIENCE** Liberty Living Study 2019 AND STAFF COMMUNITY National Student Survey 2019 NATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY 2019 *Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) **National average 84% NSS 2019 ‘overall satisfaction’ 4 n LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY T: +44 (0)151 231 5090 E: [email protected] T: +44 (0)151 231 5090 E: [email protected] LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY n 5 HOW TO APPLY FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDIES To apply for a postgraduate taught degree course at LJMU, you will need to take the following steps: STEP1 STEP2 STEP3 STEP4 STEP5 Use our online search tool Complete your online Await a confirmation of When you have met all the Complete an online to select the course you are application form at your application. If you conditions of any offer, we acceptance form. If we interested in and choose https://uaf.ljmu.ac.uk/ have not provided all of the will then request that you are able to make you an the option to ‘Apply Direct’. information we need, we pay a tuition fee deposit to unconditional offer, we will Try to have the following may send you a further secure your place at the ask you to complete an www.ljmu.ac.uk/ to hand when completing information request to the University. There are some online acceptance form to study/courses an application form: email address you have exceptions to this; if you confirm your details so that ❚ If you are applying for Details of your provided. We will then are receiving funds from an we may then release your a PhD, you will need qualifications – your assess your application external source for example. Confirmation of Acceptance to submit a Research course transcripts and make a decision. For more information for Studies (CAS). Once Enquiry Form and identify are ideal on deposit payments, this is done, you will a supervisor before ❚ Details of any relevant please see our website: then be able to apply completing the online work experience www.ljmu.ac.uk/ for a Tier 4 Study Visa. application form. – perhaps a work international/holding- reference, if applicable www.ljmu.ac.uk/ offer-of-study/ ❚ study/postgraduate- A personal statement tuition-fee-deposit students/how-to-apply/ indicating any relevant research-enquiry-form skills you may have and why you are suited to your course of choice ❚ Your passport / residency details ❚ Details of your education consultant or sponsor, if applicable 6 n LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY T: +44 (0)151 231 5090 E: [email protected] T: +44 (0)151 231 5090 E: [email protected] LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY n 7 The focus on research training will equip Optional modules are also available Policing is often an international School of you with the key transferable skills required covering topics such as: partnership between forces and national to undertake original, empirical research.