Liverpool John Moores University (abbreviated LJMU) is a public research university in the city of Liverpool, England. The university can trace its origins to the Liverpool Mechanics’ School of Arts, established in 1823. This later merged to become Liverpool Polytechnic. In 1992, following an Act of Parliament, the Liverpool Polytechnic became what is now Liverpool John Moores University. It is named after Sir John Moores, a local businessman and philanthropist, who donated to the university’s precursor institutions.
The university had 25,050 students in 2019/20, of which 20,105 are undergraduate students and 4,945 are postgraduate, making it the 30th largest university in the UK by total student population.
It is a member of the University Alliance, the Northern Consortium and the European University Association.
Organisation
Faculties
The university is organised into five faculties (which are each split into schools or centres), most of the faculties are based at a particular campus site however, with many joint honours degrees and some conventional degrees, the faculties overlap meaning students’ degrees are from both faculties. The five faculties are:
- Faculty of Business & Law
- Liverpool Business School
- School of Law
- Faculty of Arts, Professional and Social Studies
- Liverpool School of Art and Design
- Liverpool Screen School
- School of Education
- School of Humanities and Social Science
- School of Justice Studies
- Institute of Culture Capital
- Faculty of Health
- School of Nursing and Allied Health
- Public Health Institute
- Faculty of Science
- School of Biological and Environmental Sciences
- School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences
- School of Sport and Exercise Sciences
- Faculty of Engineering and Technology
- Astrophysics Research Institute
- Department of Applied Mathematics
- Department of the Built Environment
- Department of Civil Engineering
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Electronics and Electronic Engineering
- Department of Maritime and Mechanical Engineering
- LJMU Maritime Centre
- Centre for Entrepreneurship