Our Five Undergraduate Programmes
The Degree Programmes
We offer five undergraduate programmes. All are qualifying law degrees and enable students to study a combination of compulsory and optional units from an extensive list of units.
- LLB Law (UCAS course code M100). A three year single honours degree in law.
- LL.B. Law with Study in Continental Europe (UCAS course code M100). A four year single honours degree in law, with the third year spent studying law in one of our partner universities in Europe. Students admitted to study LLB Law may apply to transfer to this degree at the end of their first year of study. Places are awarded on merit, on the basis of performance in first year examinations.
- LLB Law with Study Abroad (UCAS course code M100). A four year single honours degree in law, with the third year spent studying law in Singapore, Hong Kong or Japan. Students admitted to study LLB Law may apply to transfer to this degree at the end of their first year of study. Places are awarded on merit, on the basis of performance in first year examinations.
- LLB Law and French (UCAS course code MR11). A four year joint honours degree in Law and French. Students study both Law and French language and literature in Bristol, and spend their third year studying law at a French university.
- LLB Law and German (UCAS course code MR12). A four year joint honours degree in Law and German. Students study both Law and German language and literature in Bristol, and spend their third year studying law at a German university.
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Qualifying Law Degrees
All of the degree programmes are ‘qualifying law degrees’. That means that our students are exempt from the academic stage of professional legal training. For more information on professional training, contact the Bar Standards Board if you are interested in becoming a barrister, or the Solicitors Regulation Authority if you are interested in becoming a solicitor. The majority of our graduates go on to have legal careers, mainly based in the City of London. However, a significant minority of our graduates choose alternative careers, for example, in government, academia or management.
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Units of Study: Compulsory and Optional Units
All of our degree programmes contain a mix of compulsory and optional units. The amount of choice increases in the final year of each course, and there is inevitably more scope for choice in the single honours degree (M100) than in the joint honours degrees (MR11, MR12 and FM11). As we are a relatively large law school, with about 45 permanent members of academic staff, and because members of staff are keen to offer options in their main areas of research interest, we are able to offer an extensive range of optional law units within the School of Law, as well as offering students the chance to study optional units in other departments within the University of Bristol.
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