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COURSES FOR 2020 INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS POSTGRADUATE LIVERPOOL A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE, A GREAT PLACE TO STUDY 2 n LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY T: +44 (0)151 231 5090 E: [email protected] 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 facilities, museums, galleries and theatres, not to (Young University Rankings 2019, 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 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- 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. T: +44 (0)151 231 5090 E: [email protected] LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY n 1 WE’VE BEEN GOING A LONG TIME LJMU can trace its roots back to 1823 and the foundation of Liverpool Mechanics’ and Apprentices’ Library. We’ve come a long way since then, becoming a university in 1992 and now, 129 of our courses are ranked in the UK top 50*. Liverpool Mechanics’ School of Science and Apprentices’ Liverpool School of (1861) and the F.L. Calder College - Library: Pharmacy: Colleges of Liverpool Training With their mantra of The First World War brought Technology School for Cookery: ‘knowledge is power’, an influx of female students (1892-1969): Florence Nightingale called it’s not surprising that who, according to the The founder of the Fanny Calder (pictured some critics thought the School’s Principal ‘Humph’ below) the ‘patron saint mechanics institutes Jones (pictured below), first science college in Liverpool studied of laundry, cooking and were dangerous, were easier to teach (and health’. revolutionary much tidier) than their male alongside the inventor of establishments. counterparts. the Oxo cube in Germany. 1823 1825 1849 1852 1861- 1862 1875 1969 Liverpool Mechanics’ Nautical School School and College Institute and School of and College: of Nursing and Arts: Professional education Midwifery: Classes were initially for mariners was In the 1860s, trainee restricted to men but within initially dismissed as a nurses were given an a decade of opening women ‘fad’ in the nineteenth allowance of three began to attend lectures century, with pints of beer a day. too. In the 1880s it became critics comparing one of the first art schools educated sailors to to let female students draw ‘professors’ on Gilbert life models, both male and and Sullivan’s HMS female. Pinafore. *The Guardian University Guide 2020 2 n LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY T: +44 (0)151 231 5090 E: [email protected] Throughout our history we have Moores, who turned his love of football into 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 are driving forward twenty-first century achieve success. innovations and economic success, both in the UK and overseas. So if you have talent and are willing to work hard and grasp every opportunity that We take our name from one of the UK’s comes your way, we are the University that most successful businessmen, Sir John can help you achieve your ambitions. Liverpool Polytechnic: College of Building: During Liverpool Poly’s I.M. Marsh College of Construction courses in official designation ceremony, Physical Training: Liverpool were initially student protesters threw aimed at apprentices eggs and chanted “School Entry requirements for working in the building milk, school meals” at the students were a bit different trades. Today, this story Minister for Education, back in the 1900s. Not only has come full circle, with Margaret Thatcher, did students have to be the University continuing in protest at cuts to universal ‘gentlewomen’ but they had to support workforce free school milk. to be over five foot three development through new as well. degree apprenticeships. 1945- 1951- 1966- 1970- 1992- 1898- 1900 1970 1983 1970 1978 1992 now School and College C.F. Mott College of Ethel Wormald Liverpool John of Commerce: Education and COLCHE College of Moores University: After the First World (City of Liverpool Education: Over the last 28 years, War, the College College of Higher It is ironic that the this ‘new’ university began to offer courses Education): woman who was learned how to ‘dream, for both men and Students were originally denied an opportunity plan, achieve’, evolving women who wanted a housed in temporary ‘Horsa of serving as a teacher into today’s modern civic commercial career. huts’ in the grounds of The in 1923 because she university with ambitious Hazels, which had been got married became plans for the future. home to many wealthy the personification of families since 1764. education in Liverpool in the Fifties and Sixties. T: +44 (0)151 231 5090 E: [email protected] LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY n 3 10 FACTS ABOUT LJMU 20,000+ STUDENTS TOP 50 129 OF OUR COURSES ARE 200+ RANKED TOP 50 IN THE UNDERGRADUATE GUARDIAN UNIVERSITY COURSES LEAGUE TABLES 2020 FIRST UNIVERSITY AWARDED ANNUALLY TO RECEIVE IN SCHOLARSHIPS, PRIZES AND TWO £4M HARDSHIP FUNDS COMMENDED JUDGEMENTS OF STUDENTS BY THE QAA* SURVEYED SAID THEY WERE SATISFIED WITH THEIR OVERALL LJMU STUDENT 84 % EXPERIENCE** 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] OVER RANKED IN THE WORLD 95 % OF STUDENTS TOP 150 IN WORK OR UNIVERSITIES UNDER FURTHER STUDY WITHIN THE AGE OF 50 6 MONTHS OF Times Higher Education Young University Rankings 2019 GRADUATION DLHE Survey 2016/17 CLUBS AND 100+SOCIETIES RANKED LJMU OUTPERFORMS THE SECTOR AVERAGE FOR STUDENT SATISFACTION IN: #6 ❚ ACADEMIC SUPPORT LIVERPOOL IS ONE OF ❚ LEARNING RESOURCES THE MOST AFFORDABLE ❚ LISTENING TO THE UNIVERSITY CITIES IN STUDENT VOICE THE UK – RANKED ❚ ITS INCLUSIVE STUDENT Liberty Living Study 2019 AND STAFF COMMUNITY NATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY 2019 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 Use our online search tool Complete your online Await a confirmation of to select the course you are application form at your application. If you interested in and choose https://uaf.ljmu.ac.uk/ have not provided all of the the option to ‘Apply Direct’. information we need, we Try to have the following may send you a further www.ljmu.ac.uk/ to hand when completing information request to the study/courses an application form: email address you have ❚ If you are applying for Details of your provided. We will then a PhD, you will need qualifications – your assess your application to submit a Research course transcripts and make a decision. Enquiry Form and identify are ideal a supervisor before ❚ Details of any relevant completing the online work experience application form. – perhaps a work www.ljmu.ac.uk/ reference, if applicable study/postgraduate- ❚ A personal statement 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] STEP4 STEP5 When you have met all the Complete an online conditions of any offer, we acceptance form. If we will then request that you are able to make you an pay a tuition fee deposit to unconditional offer, we will secure your place at the ask you to complete an University. There are some online acceptance form to exceptions to this; if you confirm your details so that are receiving funds from an we may then release your external source for example. Confirmation of Acceptance For more information for Studies (CAS). Once on deposit payments, this is done, you will please see our website: then be able to apply www.ljmu.ac.uk/ for a Tier 4 Study Visa. international/holding- offer-of-study/ tuition-fee-deposit T: +44 (0)151 231 5090 E: [email protected] LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY n 7 School of Justice Studies CRIMINAL JUSTICE MA Study full-time over one year.