The City of Liverpool College

The City of Liverpool College is the largest further education college in the Liverpool City Region and is spread across five city centre campuses. Established in 1992, the college provides courses for somewhere between 12,000 and 20,000 students every year. The college also provides higher education programmes.^{[19][20][21][22]}

Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA)

The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts is a world renowned higher education institution that was established in 1996 by Paul McCartney and Mark Featherstone-Witty. The institution offers university level creative and performing arts training to an international community of performers, creatives, technicians, filmmakers and business people. The main LIPA building is housed in the former Liverpool Institute High School for Boys.^[23][24]

Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU)

Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) is one of the largest universities in the UK and is home to over 25,000 students from more than 100 countries.^[25] LJMU was founded in 1825 as Liverpool Mechanics' School of Arts, over the next century it merged with various other colleges to become Liverpool Polytechnic and in 1992 was granted university status as one of the United Kingdom's many 'new universities'. It took its name from Liverpool entrepreneur and philanthropist, Sir John Moores.^[26][27][28] The university is arranged over two city centre campuses (City Campus and Mount Pleasant Campus) and is divided in to five faculties covering arts, professional and social studies; health; science; engineering and technology; business and law. The Mount Pleasant Campus is situated within the Knowledge Quarter.^[29][30] Mass regeneration of LJMU has occurred since the start of the 21st century, amongst some of the university's newest properties are the Avril and Aldham Robarts libraries, Tom Reilly Building, the John Lennon Art and Design Building, the Clarence Street Building and the Student Life and Sports Building at Copperas Hill.^[31][32]

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM)

The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is one of the world’s most important centres in treating malaria and other insect-borne diseases. It was founded in 1898 as the first such school of its kind in the world and today hosts the largest concentration of medical entomologists in the UK. The school has made many contributions to tropical medicine, most notably the identification of the vector for malaria by Ronald Ross (who eventually went on the win a Nobel Prize for his discovery). The University of Liverpool and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have also combined expertise to create the Centre of Excellence in Infectious Diseases Research (CEIDR) to improve global healthcare and medical technologies. Research at the CEIDR is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.^{[33][34][35][36]}

Liverpool Science Park

Liverpool Science Park, between Mount Pleasant and Brownlow Hill, was established in 2006 and is home to over 60 science, technology and knowledge-based businesses. The park provides offices and laboratories across three buildings. Some of the businesses include LJMU’s Astrophysics Research Institute; the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences; the Innovation Agency; the National Measurement Laboratory and the Manufacturing Technology Centre’s northern England base.^{[37][38][39][40]}

Liverpool Women's Hospital

The Liverpool Women's Hospital was built in 1995 after The Liverpool Maternity Hospital, The Women's Hospital and Mill Road Hospital merged to become the Liverpool Obstetrics and Gynaecology Unit ten year's earlier.^[41] Liverpool Women's is one of only two such hospitals in the United Kingdom, as well as being the largest hospital in Europe devoted entirely to women's health.^[42] Maternity services, gynaecology, gynaecologic oncology, neonatology, reproductive medicine and genetics services are all available at the hospital, which is located in the very south-eastern corner of the Knowledge Quarter.^[43]

National Oceanography Centre

The National Oceanography Centre (formerly and still occasionally known as the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory) is located on Brownlow Street to the immediate north of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.^[44] The centre is a fully owned research laboratory of the Natural Environment Research Council, world class research takes places at the NOC in the form of studying oceanography covering global sea levels and geodesy, numerical modelling of continental shelf seas and coastal sediment processes.^[44] The NOC began life as the Liverpool Observatory in 1845 and since then has continued to predict tidal activity and monitor overall sea conditions.^[45]

Royal College of Physicians

Founded in 1518, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is a British professional body dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of physicians by examination. In 2016 it was announced that Liverpool had beaten competition from Manchester and Leeds to become the home of the RCP's Northern Headquarters.^[46] The new facility will be housed in a building named 'The Spine' which will be situated on the former site of Archbishop Blanch secondary school. The £35 million, 15-storey building will open in 2020 with the RCP using the bottom three and top four floors. The remaining seven floors are to be used by businesses in the education and science sectors.^[47]

Royal Liverpool University Hospital

The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest general hospital in the city with over 50 wards and 850 beds, the accident and emergency department itself is the largest of its kind in the United Kingdom.^[48] The RLUH building which is sited on Prescot Street was built between 1966 and 1978 and is currently affiliated with both the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University.^[48] In March 2010, plans to demolish the RLUH in 2012 were approved by the British Government, approximately £328m was to be spent constructing a new state-of-the-art hospital on the same site, with in excess of £100 million being spent on new equipment for the hospital.^[18] The 646 bed hospital was due to open in 2017 but the completion date slipped to 2018. In February 2018, the collapse of the construction company Carillion brought work on the hospital to a halt.^[49] Construction is not expected to be completed before the end of the year.^[50]

Liverpool Medical Institution

The Liverpool Medical Institution is one of the oldest institutions in the area, tracing its history back to 1779 when a group of local doctors created the Liverpool Medical Library. Today the institution "exists to foster an environment for furthering medical and health education and knowledge".

Sensor City

Sensor City, which opened in July 2017 was one of four pilot University Enterprise Zone projects established as a joint venture between Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Liverpool.^[51] to offer office space and on-site engineering support to small and start-up businesses.^[52]

The purpose-built building is clad in an artwork costing £500,000^[53] in the form of 299 glass panels^[54] impregnated with a gold design in the theme of a printed circuit board. The building closed for refurbishment in December 2020 and as of 2024, has yet to re-open.^[55][56]

University of Liverpool

The University of Liverpool was founded in 1881 as University College Liverpool and was granted university status in 1884 as part of the Victoria University.^[57] 1903 saw the institution become independent as the University of Liverpool. UoL is one of the original six 'red brick universities' and a member of the prestigious N8 and Russell Groups.^[57] Close to 20,000 students are enrolled at the University of Liverpool which offers more than 400 programmes covering 54 subject areas.^[58][59] Like Liverpool John Moores University, the UoL is also undergoing mass redevelopment – around £660 million is currently being invested in new buildings and facilities for the university.^[57]