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A master’s degree helps to advance careers, boost salaries and deepen specialist knowledge in your chosen subject. A master’s degree from the University of Liverpool’s Faculty of Health and Life Sciences goes to the next level.
Learn from world-leading researchers and academics, study with a diverse mix of multi-cultural students, and develop your skills with bespoke, tailored courses. Whatever your interests and needs, Liverpool provides individual support to every student. At this prestigious Russell Group university — an elite group of 24 world-class, research-intensive UK universities — inspiration and innovation await.
With currently more than 900 research staff, 91% of the faculty’s research is ranked “world-leading” and “internationally excellent”, with a focus on making a genuine impact at both local and global levels. Examples of their research impact include their Neurodiversity Symposium, Lifearc-Kidney Research UK centre for rare kidney diseases, and the Children Growing Up in Liverpool project. The faculty is ranked in the top 100 in the world for Life Sciences and Medicine (QS World University Rankings 2024), therefore offering a top-notch education across their master’s provision.
University of Liverpool is a research powerhouse associated with nine Nobel Prize winners and with collaborations with 1,300 external organisations. Source: University of Liverpool
The faculty is comprised of four institutes: the Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, the Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences, the Institute of Population Health, and the Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology. They offer a huge range of master’s courses across Medicine, Psychology, Nursing, Physiotherapy, Healthcare, Public Health, Infection and Immunity, Health Data Science, Bioinformatics and Biotechnology. Students can tailor their course to their specialism and interests with a breadth of optional modules to choose from. To study any of these courses is to benefit from the teaching and supervision of experts at the forefront of their fields, with programmes that support students in building their knowledge and skills either for further study or career development.
The advantage of this was not lost on MSc Nursing student Cat Phillips. “I wanted a certificate (degree) that would be globally accepted and the University of Liverpool is a member of the Russell Group,” Cat said. “We have modules that are compulsory and modules that are optional as well, so there’s flexibility… You can pick what resonates with you and what you would like to do.”
Wherever your goals and passions lie, you can’t help but feel inspired by the faculty’s research ecosystem. There are initiatives like the Liverpool Civic Data Cooperative (CDC), the UK’s first CDC which will link anonymised health and care records across the City Region in a secure environment, coupled with the Civic Health Innovation Labs, which brings together leading experts from academia, hospitals, local government, charities and industry to develop a new model for progressive data uses and responsible artificial intelligence in civil society, fueling innovations for health, social and economic advancement.
In addition, there are strings of research successes, such as the renewal of the NIHR School for Public Health Research, the Clean Air AFRICA NIHR Unit, and Groundswell on health and green/blue spaces planning. These are examples for Public Health alone. In Clinical Medicine, the faculty ranked 11th in the UK for Research Power and won the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for work towards improving the safety and effectiveness of medicines in 2017. In Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience, it runs mental health interventions in low- and middle-income countries, which include working with refugees and asylum seekers through the EU H2020-funded RE-DEFINE project and the ENHANCE project. In Agriculture, Veterinary and Food Science, the faculty leads One Health projects for improving veterinary and human health in Africa, control of liver fluke infection in sheep and cattle, as well as mammalian behaviour and evolution.
It’s an environment that ignites success. MSc Health Data Science student, Faye Baldwin, was able to develop her dissertation study into published research. “What I enjoyed the most was conducting a genome-wide study on real-life data from the UK Biobank, which I undertook as part of my dissertation,” she says. “It was great to work with academics in and across departments on this project, learn valuable research skills and work on developing the research idea into a full publication.”
The birthplace of the Beatles has two Premier League football clubs, the most museums and galleries outside London, and over 50,000 students. Source: University of Liverpool.
Liverpool, the city “everyone can enjoy,” is just as vibrant. Home to 445,000 people, the UK’s oldest Chinese community and 80 spoken languages, this is a place many students fall in love with and don’t want to leave. MSc Nursing student Adeola Durodola said, “Liverpool as a city has been very welcoming — very friendly people, it’s easy to get help and easy to find your way around. It’s been beautiful. If you’re looking for a school that will challenge you to use the best of your potential, it’s Liverpool. There’s a lot of things to do, it’s multi-cultural and the fact that we have an international audience in Liverpool as well, it makes it welcoming to a lot of cultures”. The city was rated #1 in StudentCrowd‘s “Best Student Cities 2023” and seventh in the annual list of the Best Cities in the World by Time Out Magazine.
Six in 10 graduates remain in the city — and Durodola and Phillips can see why, saying: “The people are great, the teachers are great, the students are great. The friends we’ve been able to make while studying as international students — it’s awesome.”
For students seeking financial aid, UoL offers a Postgraduate Global Advancement Scholarship for eligible international students starting a master’s degree in 2024. Specifically for the Masters of Public Health, eligible students are entitled to receive up to £7,500 , while MSc Bioinformatics, MSc Health Data Science, MSc Infection and Immunity, MSc Palliative and End of Life Care, MSc Pharmacology and Toxicology, and MSc Research Methods in Psychology recipients get £5,000.
Start your story at Liverpool — discover the University of Liverpool’s postgraduate Health and Life Sciences courses today.
