Driving growth

LJMU supplies more graduate employees into the Liverpool City Region economy than any other university.

That’s 28% of the overall graduate intake. 50% of all employed LJMU graduates start their careers in the city region each year. Approximately 70% of all employed LJMU graduates start their careers in the North West.

96%

of LJMU students are in employment or further study 15 months after graduating.

Start-ups

There are more than 250 LJMU graduate start-up firms in the Liverpool City Region.

Outreach

We actively work with more than 400 schools in the Liverpool City Region and have trainee teachers directly located in 200+ schools and multi-academy trust settings at any one time.

Health

LJMU is one of the nation’s largest providers of registered nurses across adult, child and mental health care and is the regional provider for health visiting and specialist community practice.

High skill roles

The proportion of LJMU undergraduates gaining high-skilled roles has grown by 7% over the last four years - four times faster than the UK’s higher education sector overall.

45%

of LJMU students are from quintiles 1 and 2 of the Indices of Multiple Deprivation.

Education

We train around 500-600 teachers in primary and secondary education every year.

Justice

We train around 500 police officers and criminal justice professionals every year.

Earnings

The rate of earnings for LJMU graduates has grown significantly over the last four years, with average salaries jumping by 9.8% in a single year (2021/22).

NSS

The quality of student experience at LJMU continues to increase across all measures, according to the findings of the National Student Survey (NSS).

The responses from LJMU students demonstrate that the university’s scores improved in all seven of the survey themes in 2024, with 26 of the 27 questions scoring higher than last year.

We also scored above the sector benchmark in 23 of the 27 questions and six of the seven themes.

NHS

NHS workers educated at LJMU include paramedics, midwives, counsellors and psychotherapists, health psychologists, clinical endoscopists and social workers.