Develop your legal knowledge and skills in a highly practical way with our LLB Law course. Study with us and enjoy a friendly, non-elitist and non-hierarchical approach.
We are commitment to the development of your professional and practical skills through problem-based learning projects, commercial awareness training and work-experience. In 2020, the School of Law achieved a 90% overall satisfaction rating in the National Student Survey.
You will have the opportunity to take part in client interviewing, negotiation and mooting competitions, with work experience placements offered as prizes. Reading Law School also hosts one of the largest pro bono programmes in the UK, giving you the opportunity to work, on a voluntary basis, with local charities and other organisations where you will give legal advice and support to real people. For example, Age Concern, Anti-Slavery International, Berkshire Witness Service, Reading Young Offenders Team, and Thames Valley Police.
The first and second years provide the foundation of your legal knowledge and are determined by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and the Bar Council. You can complement your legal study with modules from outside law – for example, languages, politics or business. In your final year you can focus on your interests and select from a wide range of modules. Popular options are Company Law, Intellectual Property, Revenue Law, Family Law and Criminology.
**LLB with International Legal Studies**
We now offer a single year abroad programme, LLB with International Legal Studies. This is only open to students who are on the three year LLB, allowing them to spend an additional year abroad, within or outside Europe, subject to availability. You will develop your legal knowledge and skills in English law, while also experiencing life in a different culture and within a different legal system. This can be valuable both for a deeper understanding of law and for those who wish to work abroad in the future.
The first two years of this degree are identical to the three year LLB Law degree. Subject to availability, you can then spend your third year at an international partner university. In some of these institutions, the teaching is delivered in English, so no prior language skills are required in such cases. You would then return for the final year of the standard LLB Law degree.
**Placement**
Law benefits from close industry links. Our business partners include well-respected law firms, crown, county and military courts, as well as publishing houses and energy providers.
We place great importance on employability and careers. We have a dedicated careers adviser and a calendar full of career-orientated events. As well as providing help with CV writing, placement applications and interview techniques, we host commercial awareness workshops.
**Careers**
Your Law degree will provide you with the first qualification for entry into the legal profession, and also equip you with strong analytical, critical and persuasive skills. These are crucial skills, whether in the legal profession, local or national government, international organisations, the voluntary sector or business.
We have excellent links with industry, and a number of organisations, including well-respected law firms, support us. For example, you can apply for work experience placements in local firms that are ring-fenced exclusively for Reading law students. You can also gain insight into aspects of the profession by participating in local pro bono projects.
Around half of our graduates take their professional exams and gain employment as a solicitor or barrister. Past students have progressed to work with global corporations in the City of London, as advisers to national and European businesses, and as barristers in chambers and the Crown Prosecution Service. Outside law, our graduates are successful in global accountancy, the civil service, local government, and the entertainment industries.
Course Details - Modules
Sample modules may include:
* Technology, Privacy and Internet Regulation
* Foundations of International Law
* Banking Law
* Commercial Law
* Intellectual Property Law.
Please check our website for more details of the course structure.
Course Details – Assessment Method
Assessment Methods are not listed for this Course.
Course Details – Professional Bodies
Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.
How to Apply
26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application Codes
Course code:
M100
Institution code:
R12
Campus Name:
Main Site
Campus code:
Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Year 1
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
Contextual offers for this programme are typically two grades beneath our standard entry requirement, e.g. BBB.
Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course
Minimum Qualification Requirements
Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.
English language requirements
Test
Grade
AdditionalDetails
Full list of acceptable English Language Tests
http://www.reading.ac.uk/ad-EnglishTests.aspx
Unistats information
Student satisfaction :
89%
Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs):
90%
Go onto work and study:
95%
Fees and funding
England
9250.0
Year 1
Northern Ireland
9250.0
Year 1
Scotland
9250.0
Year 1
Wales
9250.0
Year 1
Channel Islands
9250.0
Year 1
Republic of Ireland
9250.0
Year 1
EU
19500.0
Year 1
International
19500.0
Year 1
Additional Fee Information
Additional Fee Information are not listed for this Course.
Provider information
Whiteknights House
PO Box 217
Address3 are not listed for this Course.
Reading
RG6 6AH
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