LLB Law with International Foundation Year

Program Overview

This four-year LLB Law with International Foundation Year program prepares international students for an undergraduate law degree. After a foundation year focused on law-specific and general study skills, students progress to a three-year LLB Law program, gaining legal knowledge and real-life experience. Upon completion, graduates have the same employability and career prospects as international students on the three-year LLB program.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

Develop your legal skills and knowledge – and build valuable, real-life experience – with our highly practical LLB Law with International Foundation Year degree. This programme is designed for international students, and will prepare and enable you to undertake an undergraduate law degree if you don't currently hold the correct qualifications. Known as Year 0, the foundation year is designed to equip you with law-specific and general study skills to help you cope with the demands of undergraduate study. Our high-quality teaching is focused on the needs of students from a wide range of educational backgrounds. In the National Student Survey 2023, 90% of our students said that teaching staff were good or very good at explaining things (90% of respondents studying in the School of Law). Upon the successful completion of Year 0, including a module in law, you will progress onto our accredited three-year LLB Law programme, where you'll develop your legal knowledge and gain real-life experience. This guarantee means it is possible to seek a single four-year visa that will cover the whole duration of your studies.

Outline:

Foundation Year

The following modules have been approved in principle for delivery in 2024/25. Compulsory modules:

• Academic Skills
• Introduction to Foundations of Law
• Further Foundations of Law
Optional modules:
• Academic English 1
• Introduction to Sociology
• Concepts in Politics
• Academic English 2
• Core Mathematics
• Foundation Statistics and Data Science
• An Introduction to Business and Management
• Foundation Economics: Microeconomics
• Foundation Economics: Macroeconomics
• Psychology and Research Methods
• Quantitative Methods
• Topics in Sociology
• Psychology and the Body
• Government and Politics

Year 1

Compulsory modules:

• Contract
• Criminal Law
• English Legal System and Skills
• Public Law 1
• Tort
Optional modules:
• Law and Society
• Research and Writing Skills

Year 2

Compulsory modules:

• Equity and Trusts
• EU Law
• Land Law
• Public Law 2
Optional modules:
• Banking Law
• Research Project
• Legal Writing Credit
• Religion and Law
• Law of Evidence
• War in Ukraine

Year 3

Compulsory modules: You must choose one of these three research-based modules:

• Dissertation
• Research Writing Credit
• Writing Credit Pro Bono and Professional Practice
Optional modules:
• Commercial Law
• Family Law
• Gender and Law
• International Law and Global Security
• Jurisprudence
• Labour Law
• Children, Families and the State
• Company Law
• International Children’s Rights
• Intellectual Property Law
• Medical Law
• Revenue Law
• Technology, Privacy and Internet Regulation
• International Human Rights Law
We host regular employer visits, alumni conversations, and career talks. Your employability and likely destinations once you leave Reading will be the same as international students on the three-year LLB programme. Under current UKVI rules, international students are able to stay in the UK for four months after the completion of their course. The majority of the international students at our School of Law use this four-month window to travel. They then either remain in the UK for further vocational training, or return home to complete their professional exams. A significantly higher proportion of international students, when compared to home students, continue onto professional examinations; consistently in the region of 90%.

• New UK/Republic of Ireland students: £9,250
• New international students: £22,350