| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2024-09-01 | - |
| 2025-09-01 | - |
Program Overview
This LLB degree program provides a comprehensive foundation in law with a focus on business and commercial law. Students develop analytical, research, and communication skills while exploring specialized areas such as trade law, media law, and employment law. The program prepares graduates for careers in law, including as solicitors, barristers, and legal executives.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
Take the first step towards a range of exciting careers in business and commercial law with our specialised LLB degree programme. You will gain a comprehensive grounding in the core areas covered by a law degree. As your studies progress, you can choose from a wide range of subject areas with a business focus, including: trade law, media law, commercial sales, and employment law. Throughout your business law degree, you will develop excellent research and analytical skills and learn to present your ideas effectively both verbally and in writing. All of our undergraduate Law programmes contain the foundations of legal knowledge needed to enter the legal profession. Our programmes provide a strong foundation for students who may wish to take the Solicitors Qualifying Examinations (SQE) in the future, and satisfy the academic stage of training required by the Bar Standards Board for those wishing to become barristers.
Outline:
Year 1 (Level 4)
Students choose 120 credits from the following:
Compulsory Modules
- Skills for the Study of Law (20 credits)
Optional Modules
Year 2 (Level 5)
Students choose 120 credits from the following:
Compulsory Modules
- None found.
Year 3 (Level 6)
Students choose 120 credits from the following:
Compulsory Modules
- Company Law: Incorporation, Constitution and Control (20 credits)
Teaching:
We offer an inclusive, student-focussed learning environment and community. Modules are delivered and assessed in a variety of different ways and you will be encouraged to take responsibility for your own learning, to work independently as well as with others, to act professionally, and to master new skills. As well as teaching and learning activities we offer a broad range of opportunities for you to get involved: from research-based placements, to working with clients, to developing advocacy and other skills. Our thriving Law Clinic offers students the opportunity to get involved in giving advice to clients and we have programmes of extra-curricular mooting, negotiation and interviewing. Our undergraduate degree structure, with its range of final year optional modules, gives you plenty of scope to tailor your studies to your particular interests, career goals, or ambitions. We offer a range of work placement opportunities in a wide range of settings, both in the UK and abroad.
Careers:
Studying a law degree can lead to a range of careers. We aim to equip students with multiple skills to enhance their graduate prospects. Our graduates go on to a wide variety of careers, which include being a:
- Barrister
- Civil servant
- Lecturer
- Legal executive
- Local government officer
- Paralegal
- Police officer
- Prison officer
- Researcher
- Solicitor
- Stockbroker
- Trading standards officer
Tuition Fees and Payment Information:
UK International September 2023 £ 9,000 £ 15,750 September 2024 £ 9,000 £ 16,550 Fees for full time Undergraduate UK students may be increased in subsequent years of study by an inflationary amount determined by Welsh Government. Fees for full time Undergraduate EU/International students will increase by 3% for each subsequent year of study.
