Law at a Rural University

[SleepWhenAmDead]

Hi,

Not sure how to word title.

DC currently not attending school so trying to fill gaps.

Looking for a University in/near countryside (is that a thing?)

Looking for law or psychology.

Want to see if there is anything like this so we can check entry requirements to Guido A Level choices.

Thanks for any advice.

Another vote for Lancaster.

I am a lawyer with some lawyer children and a psychologist sibling. Half of lawyers do not do law as a first degree by the way. As someone said above where you study will make a big difference to a legal career.

Good A levels for law can be English lit (not language), History and perhaps a foreign language. I did English lit, history and German. My lawyer sons both did history and geography (and one did economics and the other classical civilisation as the third). There is a lot of writing in law so doing an essay based subject like History is quite a good A level. However you can do things like maths and science A levels and still get a place on an LLB.

My son's friend was home schooled until age 16 (they met in sixth form and then did A levels together)

You don't need set A levels for law at all. Indeed you don't need a law degree to become a lawyer.

My husband (Corp partner) has science A levels followed by law degree.

My friend has science A levels followed by biochemistry degree followed by law conversion to become a construction lawyer.

Another friend was a nurse and converted to become a clinical negligence lawyer.

I am more "traditional" in that I did English, French and Geography and then law.

What I would say is do the subjects where he is likely to get the best A level grades possible and this will impact the level of uni he can attend and the type of law firm he could end up working at should this be an issue for him.

As someone else said do you mean rural or campus?

Aberystwyth and Canterbury
My son went to one and I live near the other, are both campus based Universities. Canterbury slightly more rural but neither are really although the view from Aberystwyth is very rural.

The best thing to do is research campus based Universities

@Spirallingdownwards No one has said set A levels but dc also interested in Psychology. So he would need to look at overlaps and take sensible A levels for both. An essay subject is better prep for law at university for obvious reasons but that could easily sit with sciences for psychology. Law qualification after another degree is possible, as has been pointed out, but you still need good writing and research skills.

I am assuming you got bored half way through my post and missed the part where I mentioned I too am a lawyer. Thanks for letting me know what skills I may need. 😉🤣

Lancaster has a good rep for law and is rural but easily accessible by train. Think it’s AAB.

University of Cumbria law at Lancaster or Carlisle Campus

www.cumbria.ac.uk/study/courses/undergraduate/law/

To be fair Spiralling there were 7 paragraphs and sone had more than one line

York? Offers both Law and Psych. Very green campus just out of the city centre. Psych is on the older West campus, and Law on the East campus. The campuses are about a 10min walk apart. A bus / train ride and you're out in countryside.

Have a look at the Cathedral Group universities.

@Spirallingdownwards It was a comment directed primarily at the OP! Obviously I don’t give a fig about what skills you have. What I said was about the skills the dc needs. A dc looking at psychology (which maybe you haven’t studied) is best served by looking at the qualifications which are best for that and, if law is under consideration, think about what best for that too. If you read my earlier posts, I discussed what might be suitable for both options. Not just law.

Bangor

In which case there was no reason to quote my post at all or indeed reply so rudely. How very strange.

??? How odd. Just a discussion and not aimed at you really. The “you” was a general word for “potential students”. It’s fairly common to use the word “you” in that type of discussion. Most people reading my comments, read in conjunction with earlier comments, would have understood that! I think you are well suited to being a lawyer.

For both courses, there are a lot of other things to consider.

For law, remember that Scotland is a different legal jurisdiction. If is thinking about becoming a lawyer in the future, need to consider where may want to practice. If the answer might not also be Scotland, would stick to England and Wales!

For both law, and the competitive psychological careers like clinical psychology, where you study in terms of prestige and the quality of the degree really matters, and some focus should be given to status of the university itself, not just its location.

For law in particular, access to London for careers events may become a factor in years 2 and 3 if is looking at the Bar or commercial law.

Agree with the suggestions to look at Lancaster and Aberystwyth.

Consider also how difficult it is to get home on public transport if does not drive/is not taking a car. I ruled out Aberystwyth for myself, for example, because it would have meant 3-4 changes of train and I could not imagine trying to do that with significant luggage.

Could also look at universities which have "easy access to rural", even if they are not themselves "rural". Southampton, for example, could be another option - whilst the university itself is city-based, it's only a short train or bus journey to the New Forest. Kent, Sussex, and lots of the northern and Welsh unis would also have easy access to rural, even if the university itself was in a town or city.