We offer a shortened course for graduates who have already completed a degree in another discipline. The course recognises prior learning and experiences from your other degree, and allows you to condense the law degree to complete it in three years full time, or six years part time.

QUT’s Bachelor of Laws (Honours) graduate entry courses is a higher-level qualification than a bachelor graduate entry degree, as it has honours-level content integrated throughout the course. The advanced knowledge and skills in this course will benefit your professional career, or future research and study.

You will complete the academic law units required for admission to legal practice and will develop legal skills such as interviewing, negotiation, drafting and advocacy. You will also choose from a range of introductory, general and advanced elective units to suit your career goals and gain practical skills and experience.  See the ‘Details and units’ tab for more information about electives.

Our final year capstone unit includes a work placement in range of different legal workplaces or a virtual internship with a top-tier firm, providing you with the opportunity to engage with experienced lawyers and undertake authentic legal tasks.  In 2019 students are undertaking the virtual internship with MinterEllison.

As this course has a condensed structure, university-wide minors and the law, technology and innovation minor are not available in this course.

Although many of our graduates become legal practitioners, a law degree provides the perfect foundation for a range of careers in business, government, management consulting, accounting, recruitment, community sector, research, journalism and politics, among others. 

Professional recognition

This course is approved by the Queensland Legal Practitioners Admissions Board. If you want to become a lawyer at the end of your degree, you will need to complete further practical legal training (PLT) before you can apply for admission to practice. We offer PLT in the form of the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice.

Possible careers

• Barrister
• Chief Financial Officer
• Corporate Executive
• Court Registrar
• Crown Law Officer
• Digital Economy Lawyer
• Government Officer
• In-house Counsel
• Lawyer
• Legal Academic
• Legal Publishing
• Legal Risk Manager
• Legal Technology Specialist
• Ministerial policy adviser
• Policy Officer