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Postgraduate Degree in LLB

College of Business and Law
PAC Course Code: CKL13 FT and CKL32 PT
Qualification: LLB
Duration: 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time
EU Fees: €4,855 for 2012-2013
Non-EU Fees: €16,930 for 2011/2012. Fees for 2012/2013 will be set in March 2012.
Closing Date - EU Applicants: Fri, 22 June 12
Closing Date - Non-EU Applicants: Tue, 01 May 12

Overview of LLB (LLB)

The LLB Degree is a one year postgraduate law degree offering students the opportunity to expand their portfolio of legal knowledge across a wider area of law in preparation for specific practice or for further study. It offers a wide choice of courses so that students can create a combination that best suits their interests. In particular, it offers students an opportunity to study additional fields of law, such as Medical Law, Environmental Law or Human Rights Law, which may not have been available to them at undergraduate level. The majority of students continue from the LLB degree into the legal profession or to more specialised study on one of our LLM programmes. Many of our LLB students have also entered a wide variety of other careers ranging from banking and insurance, to management and journalism.

What will I be Studying?

The LLB is a one-year full-time or two years part-time postgraduate law degree offering students the opportunity to expand their portfolio of legal knowledge across a wider area of law in preparation for legal practice or for further study. It offers a wide choice of courses so that students can create a combination that best suits their interests. The degree requires the student to complete a Legal Research and Methodology Modules plus four 10 credit modules chosen from the range on offer and to complete an essay of 8,000 words in length.

Full details on the LLB programme and the modules content are available on the Law Faculty website at: http://www.ucc.ie/en/lawsite/study/postgrad/TaughtProgrammes/LLB/

Entry Requirements

Candidates must normally hold a Second Class Honours BCL degree from the National University of Ireland or have such other third level educational qualifications and /or professional experience in law as, in the opinion of the Faculty of Law, qualifies the candidate for admission to the LLB.

English Language Requirements:

IELTS 6.5 or TOEFL equivalent

Part-Time Taught Postgraduate Programmes

Please note that non-EU applicants are not eligible to study part-time programmes

Application Procedure

Application for this programme is on-line at www.pac.ie/ucc. For full details of the application procedure click How to apply.

Please note that you will be asked to fill in a supplementary form as part of the application process for this programme. A copy of this form is available here Supplementary Form CKL13 (88kB) SupplementaryFormCKL32 (89kB)

All required documentation must be sent in hard copy to The Postgraduate Applications Centre, 1, Courthouse Square, Galway.

From 2012, the Law Faculty will use a system of offer rounds to facilitate decision-making and early notification to applicants. Candidates are encouraged to apply as early as possible. Candidates who do not have their final degree marks available may be made a conditional (provisional) offer. The offer round closing dates for taught programmes are as follows:

1st Round Closing Date: 1st May 2012
2nd Round Closing Date: 22 June 2012

3rd Round Closing Date: 24 August 2012

Please note that applicants should apply in the first round if they wish to be considered for Studentships.

New applications will continue to be reviewed at each round if there are still programme places available.

Find out More

Number of Places: No fixed quota

Veronica Calnan,
Faculty of Law,
University College,
Cork.
Tel: 021 490 3995

E-mail: v.calnan@ucc.ie
Web: http://www.ucc.ie/en/lawsite/study/postgrad/TaughtProgrammes/LLB/

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