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Key information

Key information for 2026-27

Start date:
October 2026
Study route:

  • Three years full-time, on campus


    UCAS code: M100

  • Four years part-time, on campus

  • Four years full-time, on campus with Foundation Year


    UCAS code: M101
Status:
Fully approved
Location:
Birkbeck Campus, Central London
Awarding body:
University of London
Study options:
Full-time | Part-time | On campus | with Foundation Year

Key information for 2027-28

Start date:
October 2027
Study route:

  • Three years full-time, on campus


    UCAS code: M100

  • Four years part-time, on campus

  • Four years full-time, on campus with Foundation Year


    UCAS code: M101
Status:
Fully approved
Location:
Birkbeck Campus, Central London
Awarding body:
University of London
Study options:
Full-time | Part-time | On campus | with Foundation Year

Course Overview

The LLB Law at Birkbeck prepares you for a career in legal practice along with teaching you the transferable skills and specialist knowledge needed for a broad range of other professional pursuits.

  • Why choose this course?
    • This LLB is an academically rigorous course that gives you the opportunity to study beyond the seven foundations of legal knowledge that are essential for professional legal qualification offering you a diverse range of option modules as well as the chance to graduate with a specialised pathway in human rights, commercial law, legal practice or environmental studies.
    • It offers you extensive career support and strong links with the legal professions, including internships and clinical practice opportunities, scholarship schemes and the opportunity to join our award-winning mooting team.
    • It prepares you at the academic stage for vocational qualification as a solicitor, barrister or chartered legal executive.
    • On this course you can build your study timetable to work around other commitments with pre-recorded lectures you can watch in your own time and a range of daytime and evening seminars to choose from, as well as the opportunity to attend some online.

  • What will I learn?

    You will learn the seven foundations of legal knowledge essential for professional qualification: Contract Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law, Criminal Law, Land Law, Tort Law, Trusts, Law of the European Union along with Legal Systems and Methods, and Jurisprudence.

    Upon graduating, you will be ready to:

    • prepare for the Solicitors’ Qualifying Exam (SQE)
    • apply for a place on the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC), or
    • pursue a range of other careers.

    Teaching on this course embraces a range of disciplinary approaches, develops your skills in critical thinking, and allows you to explore critical approaches to law in its political, social and historical contexts.

    You can also choose option modules to adapt the course to your interests or career aspirations, including modules related to the environment and environmental law to allow you to graduate with an LLB Law with Environmental Studies.

  • How will I learn?

    This LLB Law is available to study full- or part-time, and teaching is very flexible to respond to the needs of our students. Depending on the module, we offer classes in the daytime, evening, on campus or online. For core/compulsory modules you can choose your own timetable selecting whether to study them in the daytime or the evening. Find out more about choosing your own timetable.

  • How often will I attend classes?

    Full-time: Usually two to three afternoons or evenings a week, October to July.

    Part-time: Usually one to two afternoons or evenings a week, October to July.

  • Foundation Year

    If you opt for the Foundation Year route, this will fully prepare you for undergraduate study. It is ideal if you are returning to study after a gap, or if you have not previously studied the relevant subjects, or if you didn't achieve the grades you need for a place on your chosen undergraduate degree.

    Once you successfully complete your Foundation Year studies, you will automatically advance onto the main full-time degree. 

  • Pathways

    This course has additional Pathways to offer you the chance to specialise depending on your interests and career goals.

    LLB Law and Commercial Law

    LLB :aw and Human Rights

    LLB Law and Legal Practice

  • Course disclaimer

    Birkbeck makes all reasonable efforts to deliver educational services, modules and programmes of study as described on our website. In the event that there are material changes to our offering (for example, due to matters beyond our control), we will update applicant and student facing information as quickly as possible and offer alternatives to applicants, offer-holders and current students.

    Most of our courses are taught in the evenings, however some of our courses offer a daytime timetable. Where there is an option to attend daytime teaching sessions, this is stated in the How will I learn? section.

More Highlights

  • Our LLB Law students ranked the Birkbeck School of Law first in London for teaching in the 2025 National Student Survey (for multi-faculty institutions). The NSS is a nationwide survey of final-year undergraduate students, capturing their views on the quality of their academic experience.
  • Birkbeck is an international centre for world-class legal teaching, research and scholarship. You will be taught by field-leading academic staff, alongside experienced solicitors, barristers and judges from across the legal sector.
  • Career development and skills enhancement are a key part of studying this course. You will have access to a huge range of careers support at Birkbeck's Careers Service. This comprehensive support links our students and recent graduates with top UK employers and offers you help with job applications, interviews and career planning. 
  • As a Birkbeck law student, you will be able to take part in our Legal Practice Conversation series. In these workshops, lawyers and Birkbeck graduates discuss their work and offer advice and inspiration to students looking to pursue a law career. Recent speakers have discussed the Pfizer/AstraZeneca takeover bid, international human rights, sports law, and litigation brought on behalf of veterans of the 1950s nuclear testing programme on Christmas Island.
  • Put your learning into practice and gain valuable experience and hands-on skills through our Birkbeck Law Clinic, including placements with: the University of London Refugee Law Clinic, Environmental Law Foundation and Release. These can be undertaken for credit as co-curricular activities. Placements involving the provision of legal services count towards your Qualifying Work Experience if you are seeking to qualify as a solicitor after your studies.

Modules and Teaching

Birkbeck Law School

The Law School is recognised for research excellence, professional connections and student support, as well as courses that combine multidisciplinary insight with practical skills.

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Entry Requirements

We welcome applicants without traditional entry qualifications as we base decisions on our own assessment of qualifications, knowledge and previous work experience. We may waive formal entry requirements based on judgement of academic potential.

  • Full-time study - how many UCAS points do I need?
    • Three years full-time: 120 points (e.g. A-levels BBB)
    • Four years full-time with Foundation Year: 48 points 

    For full-time study on this course, you apply via UCAS. The UCAS tariff score applies if you have recently studied a qualification that has a UCAS tariff equivalence. UCAS provides a tariff calculator for you to work out what your qualification is worth.

  • Part-time study

    For part-time study our standard requirements are a minimum of two A-levels or equivalent.

  • Alternative entry routes

    Three years full-time or Four years part-time: Access to Higher Education Diploma with a minimum of 15 credits achieved at Merit or Distinction in law, humanities or social science units. Birkbeck's Certificate of Higher Education in Legal Studies with a minimum mark of 50% is accepted for entry to the LLB, with optional credit for a first-year module.

    Three years full-time: Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma - DMM

  • What are the English language requirements?

    If English is not your first language or you have not previously studied in English, our usual requirement is the equivalent of an International English Language Testing System (IELTS Academic Test) score of 6.5, with not less than 6.0 in each of the sub-tests. We also accept other English language tests.

    If you don't meet the minimum English language requirements, please contact us or see our international study skills page for more details about how we can help.

    Visit the International section of our website to find out more about our English language entry requirements and relevant requirements by country.

  • What are the visa and funding requirements?

    If you are not from the UK and you do not already have residency here, you may need to apply for a visa.

    The visa you apply for varies according to the length of your course:

    • Courses of more than six months' duration: Student visa
    • Courses of less than six months' duration: Standard Visitor visa

    International students who require a Student visa should apply to study on our courses full-time as these qualify for Student visa sponsorship. If you are living in the UK on a Student visa, you will not be eligible to enrol to study part-time courses at Birkbeck (with the exception of some modules).

    As a Student visa student, you should also apply to study on campus only, as online and flexible options of study (if they are available for your course) may affect the conditions of your visa.

    For full information, read our visa information for international students page.

    Please also visit the international section of our website to find out more about relevant visa and funding requirements by country.

    Please note students receiving US Federal Aid are only able to apply for in-person, on-campus programmes which will have no elements of online study.

  • Credits and accredited prior learning (APL)

    If you have studied at university (or have an HND or Foundation Degree), you may have accumulated credits. It may be possible to transfer these from your previous study to Birkbeck or another institution.

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Fees

Three years full-time, on campus

Academic year 2026-27, starting in October 2026

Full-time home students: £9,790 per year
Full-time international students: £18,500 per year

Academic year 2027-28, starting in October 2027

Full-time home students: £10,050 per year
Full-time international students: £19,320 per year

Four years part-time, on campus

Academic year 2026-27, starting in October 2026

Part-time home students: £7,335 per year
Part-time international students: £13,875 per year

Academic year 2027-28, starting in October 2027

Part-time home students: £7,530 per year
Part-time international students: £14,490 per year

Four years full-time, with Foundation Year, on campus

Academic year 2026-27, starting in October 2026

Full-time home students, Year 1: £5,760 per year
Full-time international students, Year 1: £18,500 per year
Full-time home students, Year 2+: £9,790 per year
Full-time international students, Year 2+: £18,500 per year

Academic year 2027-28, starting in October 2027

Full-time home students, Year 1: £5,760 per year
Full-time international students, Year 1: £19,320 per year
Full-time home students, Year 2+: £10,050 per year
Full-time international students, Year 2+: £19,320 per year

Students are charged a tuition fee in each year of their course. Tuition fees for students continuing their course may be subject to annual inflationary increases. For more information, please see our Fees Policy.

Birkbeck's campus is located in the historic and vibrant Bloomsbury area of central London - named one of the best places to live in London 2025 by The Times.

Careers and employability

We offer you lots of different ways to enhance your career and employability prospects during your studies on this LLB Law. These include:

Graduates may go on to pursue a career path as a:

  • barrister or solicitor
  • CILEX lawyer
  • chartered legal executive
  • legal advocate
  • policy analyst or researcher.

On successfully graduating from this LLB Law, you will also have gained an array of important transferable skills, including:

  • high-level oral and written communication
  • research
  • evaluating and assessing types of information
  • critical thinking and reasoning, including analysis, problem-solving and the ability to assess and construct arguments
  • the ability to work and present as part of a team.

A law degree from Birkbeck provides you not only with this broad range of transferable skills, but also knowledge and understanding of the English legal system that may be relevant within a diverse range of other fields including journalism, the civil service, human resources, politics and creative entrepreneurship.

Thanks to the support of our careers service, Birkbeck students have gained internships and places on vacation schemes with organisations including Allen & Overy, Barclays, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) and RPC. Our excellent track record with scholarships such as the Access to the Bar Award (Middle Temple) and the Freshfields Stephen Lawrence Scholarship is also built on the hard work and guidance that the careers team offers our students.

We offer a comprehensive careers service - Careers and Enterprise - your career partner during your time at Birkbeck and beyond. At every stage of your career journey, we empower you to take ownership of your future, helping you to make the connection between your experience, education and future ambitions.

Student Support

Birkbeck offers study, learning and wellbeing support to undergraduate and postgraduate students to help them succeed.

Our Learning Development Service provides a lively programme of free weekly workshops building essential academic skills - from writing and critical thinking to maths and referencing - offering flexible sessions, practical tips, and online resources to boost your skills and confidence.

Our Disability and Mental Health Service can support you if you have disabilities, specific learning differences, mental health conditions or neurodivergence, by providing practical support to help you achieve your academic potential.

Our Counselling Service aims to support you with any emotional and psychological difficulties that are affecting your experience and engagement with your studies at university. It is a free, non-judgemental and confidential service which consists of a consultation process followed by time limited counselling contact.

Find out more about the full range of student services we offer at Birkbeck.

How to Apply

You apply via UCAS for our full-time undergraduate courses or directly to Birkbeck for our part-time undergraduate courses. For more detailed, step-by-step guidance on how to apply, visit our How to apply page.

  • How do I apply to study full-time (UCAS entry)?

    If you are applying for a full-time undergraduate course at Birkbeck you apply through UCAS. Use the Apply now button on this course page which will direct you to UCAS. There you will be prompted to sign in and create an account. You will have to give UCAS a few personal details, including your name, address and date of birth, and then you can start working on your application.

    The first UCAS deadline is in January, and the majority of university applications through UCAS are made by then. Find the exact deadline date on the UCAS website. We welcome applications outside of the UCAS deadlines, so you can still apply through UCAS after the January deadline, depending on the availability of places. We also take late applications via the UCAS Clearing system in August.

  • How do I apply to study part-time?

    If you are applying for a part-time undergraduate course (usually four or six years), you apply directly to Birkbeck online by using the Apply now button. You will need to prove your identity when you apply.

    Please note that online application opens in September.

  • When should I apply?

    You are strongly advised to apply now, to ensure there are still places left, and to give you enough time to complete the admissions process, to arrange funding and to enrol.

    You don't need to complete your current programme of study before you apply - Birkbeck can offer you a place that is conditional on your results.

  • How can I get help with my application?

    Get all the information you need about the application, admission and enrolment process at Birkbeck.

    Our online personal statement tool will guide you through every step of writing the personal statement part of your application.

  • International agents

    If you are an international agent applying to Birkbeck on behalf of an international student, please use Birkbeck's agent portal.

Study routes for Law (LLB)

Please select a study route below to continue your application.

Please note that international students who require a Student visa to study in the UK can only apply for full-time, on campus routes.

Important: Applications to study part-time in 2027/28 will open in October 2026.

2026-27

Full-time

Part-time

2027-28

Full-time