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  • Undergraduate
Leicester Campus
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2026-20272027-2028
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Course summary

Our Law LLB has been designed by legal experts to give you a solid grounding in law, whilst enabling you to tailor your learning to the areas of law that interests you.

Participation is at the heart of the course, your learning will be complimented by a range of employability and placement activities. Our dedicated law environment, which included a mock courtroom and client interviewing room, will enable you to bring learning to life and learn valuable skill to equip you for the world of work.

Our award-winning careers team provides dedicated support to help students secure valuable work experience and long-term career success. Students have completed year-long placements with leading global companies such as Warner Brothers and Toyota, and with major law firms including Shoosmiths and Gateley.

After graduation, our students have gone on to careers as solicitors, paralegals, civil servants, or pursued research opportunities. Career destinations include prestigious organisations such as the Crown Prosecution Service, Gowling WLG and Jaguar Land Rover (JLR).

Whether your goal is to progress to subsequent years of study or the workplace, you will be prepared for your future through a range of delivery and assessment styles such as presentations, discursive essays and problem-solving questions.

  • Take advantage of the innovative Law Lab Enterprise, where academic theory meets real-world legal practice. Gain hands-on experience to prepare for a successful legal career.

  • Students feel very positive about their Law lecturers, with their votes placing us 1st in the East Midlands for the teaching on their course (NSS, 2025).

  • Enhance your learning with Oxford Law Trove and other specialist Law databases. Oxford Law Trove contains more than 200 law textbooks relevant to the core and optional modules within the Law LLB course.

  • Boost your CV at DMU Street Law, or DMU’s Law and Mooting Society. These extra-curricular activities present opportunities to take part in mooting, presentations, mock trials and interviewing.

  • Study Law at our Dubai campus – students starting this course in September 2025 will have the opportunity to apply to spend a block in year two studying at our Dubai campus.

Modules

Course Modules

Year 1
Block 1: English and European Legal Systems
Block 2: Criminal Law
Block 3: Contract Law
Block 4: Constitutional and Administrative Law

Year 2
Block 1: Law of Tort
Block 2: Land Law
Block 3: Inter-Professional Legal Skills
Block 4: Choose a pathway

Year 3
Block 1: Equity and Trusts
Block 2: Pathway module
Block 3: Pathway module
Block 4: Project or SQE Preparation

https://www.dmu.ac.uk/study/courses/undergraduate-courses/law-llb-degree/law-llb-hons.aspx#what-you-will-study

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • Leicester Campus

Study options

  • Bachelor of Law (with Honours) • Full-Time • Placement (mandatory) • 4 Years
  • Bachelor of Law (with Honours) • Full-Time • 3 Years

Start dates

Application codes

Institution code:
D26

De Montfort University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.

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Application codes

Institution code:
D26

This course may be available at alternative locations, please check if other course options are available.

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Entry requirements

Typical qualification requirements

A level
BBC

UCAS Tariff
Offer: 112

From a minimum of 2 A-Levels or equivalent

Access to HE Diploma
Merit: 30 Pass: 15

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
DMM

English language requirements

TestGradeAdditional details
IELTS (Academic)6.5including a minimum of 5.5 in each component

or equivalent

Contextual admissions

Universities and colleges consider more than grades when assessing applications and may make offers based on a range of criteria. Learn more about contextual offers.

Here at DMU we welcome all applications, no matter what your background. To make sure you get fair and equal access to higher education, when looking at your application we consider more than just your grades–we take into account any challenges that you may have faced in your education. Contextual Offers will be offered to candidates who are in receipt of Free School Meals, who are Care Experienced or who are deemed to live in areas of low HE participation neighbourhoods (POLAR Quintiles 1 & 2).

Learn more on the De Montfort University website

Historical entry grades data

This section shows the range of grades that students who received offers were previously accepted on to this course with (learn more).

It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place.

Admissions teams consider various factors, including interviews, subject requirements, and entrance tests. Check all course entry requirements for eligibility.

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

Per year tuition fees

LocationFeeYear
England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Channel Islands & Republic of Ireland£10050
EU & International£16800*

* This is a provisional fee and subject to change.

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.

Additional fee information

Please note, this fee is subject to parliamentary procedure and will also be subject to a compounded annual inflationary increase.

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