Law with Business (with Placement Year)

Our law programmes are Qualifying Law Degrees (QLD). After successfully completing this course, you can become a barrister through the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) or a solicitor through the Solicitor’s Qualification Exam route (SQE).

Hands-on experiences

With our undergraduate law and business course, you will learn through diverse hands-on experiences, such as:

* Make London your classroom*

St Mary’s is only a 30-minute train ride from central London – home to the city’s legal district and the financial capital of the world. Therefore, you will have numerous opportunities to visit:

Work placements: apply your studies to the real world

You can complete a work placement in the local or wider London area.

Previous LLB Law and Business students have worked at:

About the Placement Year A placement year enables you to undertake a year of experience in an organisation between your second and final year.

It will enable you to:

apply the knowledge and skills you gain from your course in a work setting build your commercial awareness and insights into organisations and industries you might want to work in develop your professional skills through company training, networking skills and confidence in the workplace get some great experience for future job applications or even land a graduate job. Support from St Mary’s every step of the way

Securing a placement can really help you develop your job search skills and the Employability Service placement and Careers Teams can support you to find and apply for available opportunities.

Please note: in the event that you cannot secure a placement you will be able to transfer onto the three year version of your degree programme.