Editing North West England (section)

===Universities===
[[File:Victoria Building Liverpool 2013.jpg|[[Victoria Building, University of Liverpool]]|thumb]]
[[File:Hollings Campus aka The Toast Rack - geograph.org.uk - 3765.jpg|thumb|right|Manchester Metropolitan University's Hollings Campus – the ''[[Toast Rack (building)|Toast Rack]]'']]

The universities in the North West are listed below:
*[[University of Manchester]], Manchester – The [[List of universities in the United Kingdom by enrolment|largest single-site university in the UK]] with 36,907 students
*[[Manchester Metropolitan University]], Manchester – Also one of the country's largest universities with 40,420 students – second-largest university in the region
*[[University of Central Lancashire|UCLAN]], Preston – The University of Central Lancashire in Preston, 28,850 students – third-largest university in the region
*[[Liverpool John Moores University]], Liverpool – 24,085 students
*[[University of Liverpool]], Liverpool – 20,765 students
*[[University of Salford]], Salford – 20,185 students
*[[Lancaster University]], Lancaster – 17,415 students
*[[The University of Law]], Chester, Manchester
*[[Edge Hill University]], Ormskirk – 15,645 students
*[[University of Chester]], Chester and Warrington – 15,095 students
*[[University of Bolton]], Bolton – 8,540 students
*[[Liverpool Hope University]], Liverpool – 8,205 students
*[[University of Cumbria]] – The region's newest university located across Cumbria, parts of Lancashire and London, and formerly known as the [[Cumbria Institute of the Arts]]

Over 60% of university students in the region are native to the region. The region with the next-highest number of students in the North-West is [[Yorkshire and the Humber]], so approximately 80% of university students in the area are from the north of England. The region's students have the highest proportion of students from so-called low-participation neighbourhoods.{{Citation needed|date=October 2010}}