LLB Graduate Law

2 Years On Campus Accelerated-bachelors Program

University of Exeter

Program Overview

If you've already got a degree in another subject and you're ready to pivot into law, this accelerated two-year LLB gives you a genuinely fast, focused route into a legal career. It suits driven graduates who want to cover the full academic foundation for legal practice without starting from scratch, combining core legal knowledge with real opportunities to develop practical advocacy and lawyering skills.

Curriculum Structure

Year One: You'll dive straight into the essential building blocks of English law, taking core modules like Contract Law, The Law of Torts, Land Law, and Constitutional and Administrative Law. It's an intensive first year by design, giving you the foundational legal knowledge that would normally be spread across a longer degree, compressed into twelve months of focused study.

Year Two: You'll continue building your legal foundation with compulsory modules like Criminal Law, Trusts, and European Union Law, while choosing 45 credits of optional modules from a genuinely wide range, including options like Human Rights Law, Employment Law, or Artificial Intelligence and the Law. This is really where you get to shape the degree around the area of law you're most drawn to, whether that's commercial, criminal, or international law.

Focus Areas: Core English law foundations including contract, tort, land, constitutional, criminal, and trusts law, alongside a broad range of specialist optional modules spanning human rights, employment, commercial, and international law.

Learning Outcomes: Graduates come away with strong legal research, problem analysis, legal writing, and reasoning skills, developed through 12 to 16 hours of lectures, workshops, and seminars each week alongside significant independent study. It's genuinely comparable to a traditional three-year law degree, just condensed into two.

Professional Alignment: This LLB covers the foundations of legal knowledge required for the academic stage of qualification as a solicitor or barrister, giving you a genuine start toward a professional legal career. After graduating, you'll still need to complete further training through the Solicitors Regulation Authority or the Bar Standards Board, or the equivalent body in your home country, to qualify, and Canadian students can also pursue accreditation back home through the National Committee for Accreditation.

Reputation: Exeter is ranked Top 25 in the UK for Law, coming in 22nd in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026, and the university has an excellent national and international reputation for mooting, giving graduates a strong foundation to compete in the legal job market.

Experiential Learning (Research, Projects, Internships etc.)

The LLB Graduate Law puts real legal skills training front and center. You're taught legal research, problem analysis, teamwork, legal writing, and reasoning from day one, not just legal theory in a lecture hall. With 12 to 16 hours of lectures, workshops, and seminars each week, plus access to the Lasok Law Library and a purpose-built Moot Court, you'll have everything you need to build genuine practical experience alongside your academic study. Here's what that looks like in practice:

Mooting: you can take part in simulated legal hearings in Exeter's custom-built Moot Court, receiving coaching from staff and presenting arguments before volunteer judges, all part of the university's excellent national and international mooting reputation.
Pro bono opportunities: through the Legal Assistance Programme, you can get involved in the Community Law Clinic, the Stop Abuse for Everyone charity, the Student Appeals Project, or Judicial Shadowing, gaining real career experience while you study.
Negotiation competitions: the Student Negotiation Society sends teams to the National Negotiation Competition, giving you a genuine platform to practise persuasive, real-world legal skills.
Group work and seminars: you'll work closely with classmates in interactive seminars and workshops, collaborating on legal problems and honing your ability to argue and reason as part of a team.
Employer engagement: you'll have regular contact with the legal profession through workshops, skills sessions, networking events, internships, shadowing, and mentoring opportunities.
Library resources: the Lasok Law Library, located in the Forum, holds over 40,000 volumes and is open 24 hours a day, giving you round-the-clock access to the resources you need for legal research.
Flexible optional modules: in your second year you can tailor your degree with 45 credits of options like Human Rights Law, Employment Law, or Artificial Intelligence and the Law, letting you build practical expertise in the area of law that interests you most.
Alumni network: you'll benefit from strong global alumni connections, including graduates now in senior legal and business roles, giving you access to mentoring and career insight well beyond graduation.

Progression & Future Opportunities

The LLB Graduate Law is designed to launch you straight into a legal career, and Exeter's track record backs that up, with graduates landing roles as trainee solicitors, paralegals, management consultants, and compliance analysts. Typical destinations include Trainee Solicitor, Paralegal, Legal Team Trainee, and Management Consultant. Here's how Exeter helps you get there:

Careers support: you'll have regular contact with the legal profession through workshops, skills sessions, networking events, internships, shadowing, and mentoring opportunities built directly into the programme.
University-industry partnerships: past graduates have secured roles at major law firms including Allen and Overy, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Michelmores, Macfarlanes, and Nabarro, showing the strength of Exeter's connections across the legal industry.
Broader employer links: graduates have also gone on to organisations like Microsoft, Barclays Bank PLC, EDF Energy, and UNICEF, demonstrating just how far a law degree from Exeter can take you outside traditional legal practice too.
Long-term accreditation value: this LLB covers the foundations of legal knowledge required for the academic stage of qualification as a solicitor or barrister, giving your degree lasting professional relevance well beyond graduation.
Long-term reputation: Exeter is ranked Top 25 in the UK for Law, coming in 22nd in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026, with an excellent national and international reputation for mooting that adds real weight to your CV.
Alumni network: you'll join a global alumni community that includes senior figures like His Hon Judge Phillip Waller CBE and Fiona Shackleton, Partner at Payne Hicks Beach, giving you access to genuine mentoring and career insight.
Broad graduate outcomes: past graduates have gone into training contracts, pupillages, and roles spanning law, business, finance, and administration, showing just how versatile this qualification is.

Further Academic Progression: Many Graduate LLB students move straight into the professional stage of legal training, such as the Bar Vocational Course at the Inns of Court School of Law or the Legal Practice Course at the College of Law, to complete their journey toward qualifying as a solicitor or barrister. If you want to specialise further academically first, Exeter graduates have also gone on to postgraduate study like an LLM at the University of Cambridge, a BCL at the University of Oxford, or Exeter's own LLM International Commercial Law. And for those interested in broadening beyond pure legal practice, past graduates have pursued programmes like an LLM in International Relations and Diplomacy at Leiden University or an MA in European Community Law at the College of Europe in Bruges.