About the Courses

About this course 

The three-year LLB Law degree with Integrated Foundation is designed for students who will benefit from a one-year introduction to enable them to study law at undergraduate level. The first year of the programme provides a foundation to the more specialist ‘core’ subjects delivered in years two and three, leading to the award of an LLB.

The Buckingham LLB’s concentrated mode of delivery during years two and three of this programme prepares you for careers in law, governance, public service, industry, and commerce. It also satisfies the necessary first step for qualifying as a lawyer in various common law jurisdictions, including Canada, Nigeria (Single Hons LLB), the Bahamas, Ghana and Bermuda.

For those interested in qualifying as a solicitor in the UK, our LLB with Integrated Foundation provides you with thorough preparation for the Solicitors Qualifying Exam 1 (SQE1), enabling you to choose the accelerated SQE1 preparation courses after graduation. Our innovative and diverse curriculum also contributes to preparation for the practice-orientated SQE2, both SQE1 and SQE2 being necessary for qualification as a solicitor. Buckingham Law School graduates (LLB and LLM) also benefit from a 20% discount on the SQE1 preparation course provided by the leading professional legal educator BARBRI.

For those UK and international students wishing to qualify as an English barrister, our LLB with Integrated Foundation (single or combined honours) satisfies the academic component of Bar training, the necessary first step to qualifying as an English barrister.

Buckingham Law School also offers a broad range of extra-curricular opportunities to develop your professional skills and experience of legal practice. These opportunities include the possibility, between the second and third year of your LLB with Integrated Foundation, to undertake a sandwich year placement with a professional organisation.

Students at Buckingham who gain a second-class honours degree or higher are guaranteed a place on our LLM programme in International and Commercial Law with its specialist pathways. This opportunity greatly enhances specialist knowledge and enables our students to acquire two degrees in only three years, or four years if you pursue our LLB Law degree with Integrated Foundation programme. There is also the opportunity for undertaking research degrees at LLM and PhD.