The school has an annual intake of students aged 13 and 19 (academic years 9-13).[5] There is capacity for 200 students in each year group.[citation needed]
The main catchment area of the UTC is the Liverpool City Region, which includes the five metropolitan boroughs which make up Merseyside and the Borough of HaltoninCheshire. Where the number of applications for admission to the UTC is greater than the number of places, places are allocated randomly to pupils from all of the six boroughs in the catchment area.[6]
Liverpool Life Sciences UTC specialises in science, healthcare and engineering,[7] with a particular focus on life sciences. Students follow one of four learning pathways that determine curriculum options. These pathways are the healthcare academic pathway, the healthcare vocational pathway, the leadership and management pathway and the scientific enquiry pathway. For pupils aged 13 to 16 the pathways lead to different combinations of qualifications which include GCSEs, BTECs and NVQs. For sixth form students the pathways lead to different combinations of A Levels, BTECs and NVQs.[8]
Liverpool Life Sciences UTC is the only school in the United Kingdom that has its own student-run Institute. It consists of eight departments: Communications, Education/ Outreach, Business, Sustainability/ Conservation, Microbiology, Model Organisms, Molecular Biology & Advanced Manufacturing. The BRI (Baltic Research Institute) was launched in 2018 within the school's Innovation Labs.[citation needed]
