Raise the bar with a career in law
If you’ve aspired to a career in legal practice, then UC's Bachelor of Laws will help get you there in no time. Our highly practical approach is a marked strength, and continues to set our law degree apart from the rest.
With small class sizes, a purpose-built eMoot Court and highly qualified and experienced staff, you’ll be encouraged to develop your advocacy abilities and legal skills while understanding their connection to legal history and law in context.
You can tailor your individual study program by selecting a variety of electives across many areas of law, and even choose to accelerate your studies with winter term subjects. The course will ground your education in the latest legal innovations, develop your communication and interpersonal skills and allow you to become an agile, ethical and effective legal professional.
Graduate Entry
Experience counts at UC.
If you’ve already completed an Australian Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent, you’ll be able to complete our Bachelor of Laws in 3 years instead of 4. Credit is simply applied towards your open electives, which means you can complete your studies sooner.
Study a Bachelor of Laws at UC and you will:
Undertake in-depth study of key areas of law that give you the required academic knowledge for admission to Australian legal practice
Choose from an array of specialist electives that include environmental law, government law, gender, commercial law, technology, legal innovation and more
Participate in a program of study with a proven track record of excellence in graduate employment outcomes and work-integrated learning
Have the option of completing Honours in your final year of study. This allows you to graduate with a deeper understanding of the various technical and theoretical aspects of the law and can help prepare you for a variety of roles within and outside the justice sector
Solicitor*
Barrister*
Associate*
Judge*
Judge’s associate
Magistrate*
Registrar
Policy adviser
Legal researcher
Community lawyer*
Justice policy officer
Parliamentary counsel
Legislative drafter
Law reform officer
Finance sector
Governance
Management
Licensing
Building and Construction
Business
There are non-standard English language requirements for this course. To be eligible you must have an overall IELTS Academic score (or equivalent) of 6.5, with no band score below 6.0.
Admission to this course is based on an entrance rank. A rank can be achieved by the following means:
- Year 12 ATAR
- other Australian Qualification
- work experience
- overseas qualification