Whether you’re intending to use the LLB degree as the start of your legal career in the legal profession, or as the stepping stone for other career opportunities, make Huddersfield Law School your first choice to what could be a brilliant, dynamic and rewarding future.

Giving you the very best in legal teaching, this degree gives you a comprehensive Qualifying Law Degree with access to lots of different optional modules and a whole third year devoted to your own choices. You can create a business law pathway, social justice and human rights pathway or focus on wider areas of law such as family law, mental health law or international law. This degree is for students who choose careers both in law as well as the wider associated professions in business, finance, education, public policy, public service and social services, for instance and also provides the ideal bridge towards postgraduate study.

Taking a Huddersfield Law School degree means you can choose to take an LLB in Law, LLB in Law and Practice or an MLaw (incorporating LLB) as an integrated Masters in Law and Practice. Whichever pathway you choose, all degree programmes support you in exploring your options and the career path you wish to take and you can change your route right up to the end of your second year and choose the path that is best for you, for your final year. We also offer an LLB in Law with Criminology, if you want to study a different discipline alongside law.

As well as gaining an understanding of the law itself, studying a law degree will teach you a wide range of essential skills such as how to construct an argument, how to present yourself and your ideas, the importance of attention to detail, and the ability to work in a team as well as on your own initiative. We’ll help you to build your employability skills while you study, making you stand out to potential employers.

On the LLB Law course we also give you the opportunity to take a placement year that could see you working in a business and gaining real world experience.

Placements

The course offers an optional one-year (48 weeks) work placement after the second year, in the UK or abroad.

Our Placement Office works with national and international employers to ensure excellent work experience opportunities are available to you on sandwich courses as well as giving advice in areas such as interview skills and preparing CVs and covering letters.

Huddersfield Business School’s Placement Unit won the National Undergradute Employability (NUE) award in 2017 for ‘Best University Placement Service’ for their hard work and innovative ideas.

Previous placement providers have included Ashmans Solicitors, CEIC Centre d'estudis Cunit, Conveyancing Liability Solutions (CLS) Ltd, PPG and Ridley and Hall Solicitors.

Your Career

Previous graduates from this course have gone on to roles such as Industrial Disease Paralegal, Legal Administrative Assistant, Legal Assistant in organisations including Slater and Gordon, Greenhead Solicitors, Ramsden Solicitors LLP.**

*  Percentage of graduates from this subject who are in work and/or further study fifteen months after graduating (HESA Graduate Outcomes 17/18, UK domiciled graduates).