Senior Status Law,LLB

This twenty-first century LLB Senior Status Law 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 Senior Status Law is a practical law degree designed to meet employer needs and is 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.

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

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

During your degree, 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. 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

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

BTEC National Diploma:

International Baccalaureate:

European Baccalaureate:

Other Requirements Available to applicants who already hold an existing Bachelor’s degree (2:2 or equivalent) in another subject.

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.

Career prospects

The LLB Senior Status Law degree opens up a range of exciting opportunities for you.

• You will be a strong candidate for training to become a barrister or a solicitor.
• You will have the potential to succeed in many different areas including criminology, financial management, business, human resources, international relations, journalism and education.

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

• the confidence in selecting and deploying 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-work, with the ability to discuss concepts in groups, accommodating different ideas and reaching agreement
• research skills.

What opportunities are there as a student at Department of Law and Criminology?

• Click here to find out about the various opportunities that our Aberystwyth University Careers team offer.
• Enhance your employability prospects with GO Wales and YES (Year in Employment Scheme) managed by our Careers department.