Founded in 1881 as the original ‘red brick’, the University of Liverpool is one of the UK’s leading research-intensive higher education institutions with an annual turnover of £545.7 million, including £95.6 million for research. Consistently ranked in the top 200 universities worldwide, we are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of the UK’s leading research universities and have a global reach and influence that reflects our academic heritage as one of the country’s largest civic institutions. The University has 35,000 students, 8,000 of whom travel from all over the world to study here, and a thriving community of 228,000 alumni in 171 countries. Our global focus has led to the establishment of a university in Suzhou near Shanghai, as well as a campus in London, and we are recognised as one of Europe’s leading providers of wholly online postgraduate degrees, with over 10,000 students studying for Liverpool degrees around the world. (www.liverpool.ac.uk/about)