About Law With Business, LLB (hons) in University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN)

UCLan’s LLB (Hons) Law with Business combines an internationally recognised LLB degree with a broad understanding of modern business, ensuring you will be perfectly placed to pursue a successful professional career in a legal or business context. Business managers benefit from knowledge of the law whilst lawyers benefit from an understanding of business practice and behaviour. With this combination of knowledge and skills you will be highly valued by employers.

• Law at UCLan is 4th in the North West for overall student satisfaction - National Student Survey 2019. 
• Many staff are professionally qualified and research active, with experience in practice as solicitors, barristers and judges or as senior managers in major organisations.
• Guest speakers join us on campus regularly, including successful School alumni who are now judges, QCs, CEOs, Chief of Police and more.
• Employability is central to the LLB (Hons) Law with Business course at UCLan. You will be presented with support and opportunities to maximise your personal development and career prospects.

FURTHER INFORMATION

As a Law School, we adopt a wide range of learning and teaching methods, designed to support you to develop as an independent learner. You will learn the skills that will enable you to become an independent learner and to function successfully in legal employment – interviewing, negotiation, research, analysing, mooting. You will also have more structured class contact in Year 1 of your law programme to support your transition to Higher Education. 

The approach to teaching and learning is 'student-centred': this means responsibility for achieving learning outcomes is placed on student initiative in self-managing your own programme of study. Staff facilitate this process by providing you with appropriate learning materials and support, such as module handbooks, lecture outlines, reading lists and online student support, you will be encouraged to adopt an independent approach to learning through effective use of private study time in researching information and responding to tasks and questions.

You will be supported both academically and pastorally through this process by academic staff responsible for the modules studied and also by a personal tutor, who is an academic member of staff with special responsibility for looking after you throughout your education at UCLan. There will also be a vibrant international flavour to lectures due discussion from a variety of student personalities – you may well be in class with students from across Europe, Nigeria, Saudi, Mauritius, Cameroon, Pakistan.

WHY STUDY THIS COURSE?

Right from the outset, this course focuses on developing transferable legal skills such as critical analysis and evaluation and excellent oral and written communication. By combining these skills with legal and business knowledge, the LLB (Hons) Law with Business provides you with the thorough grounding you’ll need, whether you’re committed to being a lawyer or want to explore other career options in business.

PROFESSIONAL ACCREDITATION

The courses are validated by the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority and the Bar Standards Board meaning that they are qualifying law degrees. Our LLB provides the first stage of training should you wish to go on to a career as either a solicitor or a barrister.

LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND ASSESSMENT

The School’s teaching environment is designed to stimulate learning. For large group teaching, we make use of the many modern lecture theatres across campus all of which have state of the art audio visual support and presentation facilities. All small group teaching rooms, contain state-of-the-art audio-visual equipment to enhance and support the learning experience.

As you would expect from a Law School committed to enhancing the employability of its graduates, there are a number of dedicated skills development rooms with recording and play back facilities within the School itself. There is also an impressive moot court room which looks just like a real court and provides students with an invaluable real-life educational experience. The moot court room is also used extensively for extra-curricular activities such as mooting competitions, advocacy training and visiting speakers. The Library contains a dedicated Law Library with a plethora of textbooks, law reports and journals as well as providing a quiet space for students to study both individually and as part of a group. The Law School’s extensive e-law library facility gives access to many legal and academic sources from the UK and beyond and is available to students not just when they are on-campus but whenever they are sitting in front of a PC.

There is a dedicated Blackboard page for each module which provides extensive online support, from module handbooks and lecture outlines to self-test quizzes and interactive revision materials.

Assessment is undertaken in a variety of ways, from the traditional unseen exam, to seen examinations; end of module and in-course formative coursework assessments; e-quizzes; e-case studies; group and individual presentations; portfolios; pod casts; personal development reflective diaries; moots and debates and oral performance in seminars.

OPPORTUNITIES

You can take up a wealth of opportunities for real life work experience and personal skills development, for example, taking part in mooting competitions, undertaking work placements, mini-pupillages and attending Summer Schools. We also have a network of alumni working in large North West organisations that offer placements to our graduates.

There is no formal sandwich placement, although there is an optional module in Year 3 where you can spend a period in law related work placements. You will have an opportunity to study or work abroad, through the Erasmus scheme or via international exchanges and placements. In addition they can gain the benefit of visits, for example, to the European Commission in Brussels, the European Parliament and the European Commission in Luxembourg.

58% from listed boards (The All Indian Senior School Certificate awarded by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), or The Indian School Certificate (ISC) awarded by the Indian Council for School Examinations (ICSE), or a recognised Indian State Education Board, such as the West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Karnataka Education Boards
60% from other boards, not listed above
Where a specific subject is required for entry to the degree programme, 58% must be achieved in this subject
Pre-University Certificate, Government of Karnataka can be considered – send to tutor – evidence from Govind included in entry requirements folder
3% margin to be considered by UCLan staff based on reputation of institution, work experience etc

65% in Year 12 English *
Or
65% average grade in Year 11 and Year 12 English provided Year 12 is not below 60%
Or
Standard English language requirements – IELTS 6 or equivalent

University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) Highlights

University of Central Lancashire Average Tuition Fees And Other Expenses

Preston is officially the cheapest city in the UK for students. The following are the categories of the tuition fee payable by the students.

The total estimated annual cost of attendance for the 2020/2021 academic session is as presented on the table below: