Thoughts on University for LLB please!

[SaintCharlie]

Hi, we are very lastminute.com here. My DS has Edinburgh, Warwick, York and Exeter as wishlists for a Law degree. Are we missing out on looking at other options aswell before applying? He finished school last year but due to Covid we have delayed by a year (Brits but live on the other side of the world). He has begun an Open University LLB so hoping to transfer into 2nd year. Does anybody have any advice, guidance, words pf wisdom? Thank you!

And don’t go to Kent, Essex or UEA. Or Scotland. They don’t have enough regional law to ensure students get jobs. RG is overwhelmingly best for law. Remember there are around 6000 training contracts and 18,000 LLB students. Plus thousands who have other degrees. An overseas student might not practice here of course, but here RG such as Bristol, Durham and several others are better for employment prospects.

Thank you everyone!!!! Application in. Done and dusted. Thank you, really, it has been good to have ‘insider’ knowledge to guide me through this.

I don't know if anyone has said it here (only briefly scanned) but if you are applying to certain unis such as Nottingham, Kins, UCL, Bristol then you have to sit the LNAT which will take some preparation but needs to be sat before a certain date.

don’t go to Kent, Essex or UEA. Or Scotland. They don’t have enough regional law to ensure students get jobs

how bizarre. I studied in Cardiff and worked in London and various places in the south-east. Where you study is irrelevant to where you can work later. I could just as easily have studied in Kent and found a job in Cardiff.

Many surveys now show movement of law grads is less common from some universities. In some areas of Law, eg the Bar, universities like Kent, Essex, UEA and plenty of others barely register. Times have changed. That’s why Manchester is a great shout if you want to stay in Manchester. Birmingham ditto. Otherwise choose RG. Which you did. Cardiff.

Thank you very much for the advice.

Hope you get the uni you want @SaintCharlie