Human Rights,LLB

This twenty-first century LLB Human Rights degree encompasses a range of traditional and contemporary legal subjects and will deliver the skills and competences that will make you ‘career ready’ and enhance your employability in a legal context.

LLB Human Rights is a practical law degree designed to meet employer needs and taught by experienced legal professionals and academics who are active for large organisations such as GRETA, the Youth Justice Board, and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

All our LLB degrees provide a foundation for those intending to qualify as a solicitor or barrister in England and Wales.

You will be able to take advantage of excellent social and professional opportunities such as visits to Law Fairs and Inns of Court in London.

LLB Human Rights offers a number of options, including the opportunity to do a work placement module in different areas of law, to study abroad in the second year at one of our many partner universities in Europe, USA, Canada and Australia

You will have the opportunity to enhance your studies by participating in our national and international competing Mooting Society to develop your key advocacy and litigation skills. We also offer a Welsh medium Mooting competition for students who wish to moot through the medium of Welsh.

Our Staff

Department of Law and Criminology lecturers are mostly either qualified to PHD level or have professional experience and qualifications as practicing lawyers. Many staff also have a PGCE (Higher Education).

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A Levels ABB-BCC

GCSE requirements (minimum grade C/4):
English or Welsh

BTEC National Diploma:
DDM-MMM

International Baccalaureate:
30-28

European Baccalaureate:
75%-65% overall

English Language Requirements:
See our Undergraduate English Language Requirements for this course. Pre-sessional English Programmes are also available for students who do not meet our English Language Requirements.

Country Specific Entry Requirements:
International students whose qualification is not listed on this page, can check our Country Specific Entry Requirements for further information.

LLB Human Rights from Aberystwyth will make you a strong candidate for training to become a barrister or a solicitor, if that is the path you choose. It will also give you an excellent springboard into a wide range of other career areas. The LLB Human Rights degree will open up national and international career opportunities in both the legal and rights-related professions. You will gain the skills to enter roles within NGOs, charities and other civil society bodies. Recent graduates work in the areas of human rights advocacy, immigration rights and equality protection.

Your future is important to us and our degrees will equip you with the following:

• the confidence to select and deploy the most appropriate range of legal methodologies
• the ability to write and communicate with a range of audiences, evaluating and organising information
• the ability to gather, assimilate and interpret a wealth of legal information quickly and accurately
• the ability to express ideas and communicate information in a clear and structured manner, in both written and oral form
• effective problem-solving and creative thinking skills
• the ability to work independently
• time-management and organisational skills, including the ability to meet deadlines
• self-motivation and self-reliance
• team-working skills, with the ability to discuss concepts in groups, accommodating different ideas and reaching agreement
• research skills.

Career development opportunities while you study

Discover more about the various opportunities that our Aberystwyth University Careers Service offers.

Enhance your employability prospects with GO Wales and our Year in Employment Scheme (YES) which are both managed by our Careers Service.