Law (final year entry)
LLB Law (Hons)
Key facts
UCAS code
M110
Start dates
September 2024 / September 2025
Location
Course length
Full time: 1 Year
Part time: 2 Years (on campus mode: only available to students who do not require a visa to study in the UK).
Department
Accreditation(s)
The LLB satisfies the Bar Standards Board's requirements for the academic component of Bar training.
Overview
As a final year student on the LLB Law course, you’ll join a dynamic and inclusive environment, and you’ll be taught by leading legal experts.
You’ll experience theoretical and practical learning. You will begin to develop the necessary intellectual and practical legal skills such as:
- analysis
- problem-solving
- legal reasoning.
Helping you to achieve a basic understanding of any branch of English law.
Being on campus there’s the opportunity to network with top law firms, gaining key professional contacts. You can also accelerate your career through our mentoring and pro-bono schemes. The skills you'll gain in extra curricular mooting and client interviewing will enhance your CV and employment prospects.
Successfully completing the course you’ll all gain an LLB which will set you up for ongoing professional training such as the Bar course for Barristers.
How to apply
Entry requirements
Specific entry requirements
Successful completion of a Law course (of English common law) which is equivalent to the first two years of a UK honours degree (240 credits).
Specific units will need to have been studied including:
- Contract Law,
- Tort Law,
- Public Law (covering Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Human Rights Law),
- Criminal Law,
- and Land Law.
To be studied in the final year if not already studied:
- Equity and Trusts,
- and European Union Law.
Please also see the University's general entry requirements.
English language requirements
If English is not your first language, we will need proof of your English language ability: IELTS 6.5 overall with 6.0 in reading and writing, 5.5 in listening and speaking.
Please also see the University's standard English language requirements.
English requirements for visas
If you need a student visa to enter the UK you will need to meet the UK Visas and Immigration minimum language requirements as well as the University's requirements. Find out more about English language requirements.
International applications
Part Time on campus learning can only be completed by students who do not require a visa to study in the UK.
Terms and Conditions of Enrolment
When you accept our offer, you agree to the Terms and Conditions of Enrolment. You should therefore read those conditions before accepting the offer.
Credit transfer
Many of our courses consider applications for entry part-way through the course for students who have credit from previous learning or relevant professional experience.
Find out more about transferring to Brookes. If you'd like to talk through your options, please contact our Admissions team.
Application process
Full time Home (UK) applicants
Apply through UCASPart time Home (UK) applicants
Apply direct to the UniversityInternational applicants
Apply direct to the UniversityFull time international applicants can also apply through UCAS
Tuition fees
Questions about fees?
Contact Student Finance on:
Tuition fees
Please note, tuition fees for Home students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students in line with an inflationary amount determined by government. Oxford Brookes University intends to maintain its fees for new and returning Home students at the maximum permitted level.
Tuition fees for International students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students.
The following factors will be taken into account by the University when it is setting the annual fees: inflationary measures such as the retail price indices, projected increases in University costs, changes in the level of funding received from Government sources, admissions statistics and access considerations including the availability of student support.
How and when to pay
Tuition fee instalments for the semester are due by the Monday of week 1 of each semester. Students are not liable for full fees for that semester if they leave before week 4. If the leaving date is after week 4, full fees for the semester are payable.
- For information on payment methods please see our Make a Payment page.
- For information about refunds please visit our Refund policy page
Additional costs
Please be aware that some courses will involve some additional costs that are not covered by your fees. Specific additional costs for this course are detailed below.
Optional costs
Additional costs | Amount (£) |
---|---|
It’s your responsibility to cover print / binding costs where coursework submission is required. Please note that a lot of the coursework is now submitted online. |
From £30 |
You may choose to purchase books to support your studies. Many books on our reading lists are available via the Library, or can be purchased secondhand. | £20-60 per book |
Accommodation fees in Brookes Letting (most do not include bills) |
£94-265 per week |
Accommodation fees in university halls (bills included, excluding laundry costs) |
£122-180 per week |
Graduation costs include tickets, gowning and photography. Gowns are not compulsory but typically students do hire robes, starting at £41. |
Typically £0-200 |
Students are responsible for their own travel to and from university for classes. BrookesBus travel is subsidised for full-time undergraduate students that are on a course with a fee of £9,250 or more, or living in an Oxford Brookes hall of residence. There is an administration fee for the production of a BrookesKey. |
From £10 |
Funding your studies
Financial support and scholarships
Featured funding opportunities available for this course.
All financial support and scholarships
Learning and assessment
You’ll study advanced modules, you can explore exciting legal themes such as:
- nationality and immigration
- computer law
- commercial law.
The modules that you will study on the course will build your knowledge of law and continue to develop your legal skills.
As an on-campus learner you’ll also have the opportunity to join our nationally acclaimed mooting team. And Oxford Brookes is the only Law School to have won the prestigious ESU-Essex Court Chambers National Mooting Competition four times in the past decade.
Study modules
Teaching for this course takes place face to face and you can expect around 10 hours of contact time per week. In addition to this, you should also anticipate a workload of 1,200 hours per year. Teaching usually takes place Monday to Friday, between 9.00am and 6.00pm.
Contact hours involve activities such as lectures, seminars, practicals, assessments, and academic advising sessions. These hours differ by year of study and typically increase significantly during placements or other types of work-based learning.
Please note: As our courses are reviewed regularly as part of our quality assurance framework, the modules you can choose from may vary from those shown here. The structure of the course may also mean some modules are not available to you.
Learning and teaching
You’ll be taught by an intimate, friendly academic team, who will offer you one-to-one support and boost your confidence in Law. You’ll be taught in lectures, small group seminars and tutorials.
You’ll learn through a variety of methods, including:
- module coursework
- interactive exercises
- online quizzes.
Assessment
Assessment methods used on this course
LLB modules use a range of assessment techniques. In some modules, you’ll be assessed through formal exams. In other modules, you may be assessed through coursework, in-class exercises or other means.
Professional accreditation
After you complete your LLB, you can go straight to the vocational stage of training. If you want to be a barrister, you’ll be ready to progress to the Bar course. You’ll also have a strong foundation of legal knowledge from which you can move on to prepare for the Solicitors’ Qualifying Exam (SQE).
After you graduate
Career prospects
‘This degree awarded to you is supremely valuable. The award is from a university which... commands very considerable respect. A Law degree from Brookes leads us London lawyers to say: well, she or he must be bright as well as knowledgeable’. Lord Wilson of Culworth, Justice of the Supreme Court (2019)
You’ll graduate ready to launch your career - as a future barrister, solicitor or in a non-legal profession. Take a look at our Routes to Legal Qualification page, that show you the paths into a legal career.
You’ll be confident in communicating legal knowledge. And you’ll be an expert in areas like research, analysis and influencing, which are all sought-after employment skills.
You’ll graduate fully equipped to progress to the next stage of your career - and ready to take on professional practice courses like the Bar Course for barristers. You’ll also have a strong foundation of legal knowledge from which you can move on to prepare for the Solicitors’ Qualifying Exam (SQE).
Further study
The School of Law also runs a course for postgraduates - see LLM Master of Laws.
Student profiles
Free language courses
Free language courses are available to full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students on many of our courses, and can be taken as a credit on some courses.
Programme changes:
On rare occasions we may need to make changes to our course programmes after they have been
published on the website. For more information, please visit our
changes to programmes page.