Driving growth and employability

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.

95%

of LJMU graduates secure employment or are in further study 15 months after graduation.

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.