The UTC is located in the Baltic Triangle, in the former Contemporary Urban Centre (CUC), a restored Victorian-era warehouse, which it shares with The Studio School Liverpool.

[3] Business partners of the UTC include Novartis, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Unilever.

For pupils aged 13 to 16 the pathways lead to different combinations of qualifications which include GCSEs, 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.