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Founded in 1881 as the original ¡®redbrick¡¯, the University of Liverpool is one of the UK¡¯s leading research-intensive higher education institutions with an annual turnover of ?614.9 million, including ?145 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 31,000 students, 8,000 of whom travel from all over the world to study here, and a thriving community of 270,000 alumni in 187 countries. Our global focus has led to the establishment of a university in Suzhou near Shanghai, 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. Alumni include nine Nobel prize winners, the first female poet laureate and the first female Director General of MI5, alongside those who have led the way in fields from nuclear disarmament to the life cycle of malarial parasites. (www.liverpool.ac.uk/about)