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LLM, what do you think of this ?!
Hello Everyone , hope your enjoying your holidays all ... anyway am seeking some help in here !!
Am applying for LLM soon , and i dont have an impressive GPA, though i have a good work experince . anyway i will apply to 12 universities some of them are top rated , (a bit hard to enter and not guranteed) . so to gurantee myself am applying to other universites which are easier to enter !!
the top universites are well known and easy to chose , but the others are hard to chose .. so those are the possibilties give me your opinion due to reputation(localy and world wide) , students life , and how strong is the law department(teaching quality)
here we go , what do you think off those ...
Kent , Buckingham, Essex , Exeter , Oxford brooks , West of England in bristol , Brunel , Bournmouth , portsmouth , and Westminster
i wanna chose only 3 from those(i already chosed the other 9) ..... All suggestions are approciated ..
Btw this is my first post in here
Am applying for LLM soon , and i dont have an impressive GPA, though i have a good work experince . anyway i will apply to 12 universities some of them are top rated , (a bit hard to enter and not guranteed) . so to gurantee myself am applying to other universites which are easier to enter !!
the top universites are well known and easy to chose , but the others are hard to chose .. so those are the possibilties give me your opinion due to reputation(localy and world wide) , students life , and how strong is the law department(teaching quality)
here we go , what do you think off those ...
Kent , Buckingham, Essex , Exeter , Oxford brooks , West of England in bristol , Brunel , Bournmouth , portsmouth , and Westminster
i wanna chose only 3 from those(i already chosed the other 9) ..... All suggestions are approciated ..
Btw this is my first post in here
Would it be possible to know which 9 institutions you have already chosen (it will give us all a picture of what you are looking for), whether you have decided to take a specialised LLM or not, and the area(s) of law you are interested in, and your future career plans? As you realise different institutions will have different strengths, also each University will have different options at the postgraduate level and the variation can be great.
In addition what are the main factors you are interested in: prestige, location in the Country, type of University City/Campus, size of University/Law Faculty, size of postgraduate body etc.
In addition what are the main factors you are interested in: prestige, location in the Country, type of University City/Campus, size of University/Law Faculty, size of postgraduate body etc.
PDJM
Would it be possible to know which 9 institutions you have already chosen (it will give us all a picture of what you are looking for), whether you have decided to take a specialised LLM or not, and the area(s) of law you are interested in, and your future career plans? As you realise different institutions will have different strengths, also each University will have different options at the postgraduate level and the variation can be great.
In addition what are the main factors you are interested in: prestige, location in the Country, type of University City/Campus, size of University/Law Faculty, size of postgraduate body etc.
In addition what are the main factors you are interested in: prestige, location in the Country, type of University City/Campus, size of University/Law Faculty, size of postgraduate body etc.
Many thanks for your replay
anyway those are the other 9 institutions i had chosen .. Kings college , Queen Mary , Edinburgh , Leeds , Sheffield , Birmingham , Leciester , Glasgow , and Sussex ( I like brighton
) i can apply to another 3 instutitons (i have 12 transcripts of my papers)
the universites i had chosen for my LLM so far are abit competitive , or lets say most of them are !!
in addition , am intersted in both " International Commerical/Business Law " or/and " Intellectual Property" so any of those will work for me . i will either take a more like a general program ( I. Commerical law) and take IP as one of the modules , or more spicealized IP program , both of them works . However I think a general course will give me a wider range of career opportunities
Moreover , Am looking for a Uninversity with a good reputation in genreal , (doesn`t have to be an Oxbridge reputation) , a good law department , nice students life , and since am an international student i guess a campuse based instutition will be a better choise. size of university doesnt really matter to me , but i want it to be a great experince anyway so ofcourse i want a nice place in addition to the study and reputation.
Moreover its obvious that i want an instuition with a strong law departmant and good academic staff .
thank you again for your replay and the help your providing
I do not have much experience of the Universities you originally list, you may be interested in the following link to the Times’ league tables (click on law):
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,6734,00.html
It must be warned that such rankings by their very nature are never 100% accurate; also these tables rank the undergraduate law courses rather than the postgraduate courses (which is what you are interested in). There are differences between the two; for example QM would be more highly regarded at the postgraduate level due to the intercollegiate LLM and due to the CCLS’ research. Also the Oxford BCL is considered better than the Cambridge LLM. So take these things with a pinch of salt.
As for you choice of reserve institutions: Kent offers an LLM in, International Commercial Law- the course offering a good spread of modules in the field including IP. Exeter too appears to offer a good programme in International Business Law; Essex offers an LLM in International Trade Law or European Business Law, although the latter is part of the Pallas scheme based in Amsterdam. All three have good reputations and are the more traditional of your reserve list. Exeter has Professor Andrew Tettenborn who is highly regarded and well published in the commercial field.
Given the information you have provided the Oxford Brookes course would not appear to be suited to your interests: it is a course in International Law in the Public sense, and their International Economic Law option would not appear to fulfil you areas of interest.
I cannot really comment on the others.
It might be worth applying to SOAS- you are applying to KCL and QM, it will give you another chance of getting on to the London intercollegiate LLM. UCL would also be another very good choice (but these two are not guaranteed entrance establishments- if such establishments do exist at all).
Since you mention GPA, I am presuming that you are an international student? You may find institutions are more flexible with you than home candidates.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,6734,00.html
It must be warned that such rankings by their very nature are never 100% accurate; also these tables rank the undergraduate law courses rather than the postgraduate courses (which is what you are interested in). There are differences between the two; for example QM would be more highly regarded at the postgraduate level due to the intercollegiate LLM and due to the CCLS’ research. Also the Oxford BCL is considered better than the Cambridge LLM. So take these things with a pinch of salt.
As for you choice of reserve institutions: Kent offers an LLM in, International Commercial Law- the course offering a good spread of modules in the field including IP. Exeter too appears to offer a good programme in International Business Law; Essex offers an LLM in International Trade Law or European Business Law, although the latter is part of the Pallas scheme based in Amsterdam. All three have good reputations and are the more traditional of your reserve list. Exeter has Professor Andrew Tettenborn who is highly regarded and well published in the commercial field.
Given the information you have provided the Oxford Brookes course would not appear to be suited to your interests: it is a course in International Law in the Public sense, and their International Economic Law option would not appear to fulfil you areas of interest.
I cannot really comment on the others.
It might be worth applying to SOAS- you are applying to KCL and QM, it will give you another chance of getting on to the London intercollegiate LLM. UCL would also be another very good choice (but these two are not guaranteed entrance establishments- if such establishments do exist at all).
Since you mention GPA, I am presuming that you are an international student? You may find institutions are more flexible with you than home candidates.
"Surely the league tables really aren't as useful in relation to post grad degrees."-
Hence the warning in my post; but I believe AnoosLaw is new to the UK University system (note the reference to GPA) and wanted a general overview: "Am looking for a Uninversity with a good reputation in genreal"- rather than one solely focused on the quality of LLMs . If you look carefully at the Table the RAe scores are recorded- at the postgraduate level these are more relevant. You would be more concerned with the fact that Keele is a 5*A faculty than its A'level entry points!
"If you want a good league table, look at the one posted by Lawz in this same forum"- this does not rank Bournmouth et al. AnoosLaw is particularly interested in information appertaining to his reserve choices, rather than Oxbridge, UCL, LSE etc
Hence the warning in my post; but I believe AnoosLaw is new to the UK University system (note the reference to GPA) and wanted a general overview: "Am looking for a Uninversity with a good reputation in genreal"- rather than one solely focused on the quality of LLMs . If you look carefully at the Table the RAe scores are recorded- at the postgraduate level these are more relevant. You would be more concerned with the fact that Keele is a 5*A faculty than its A'level entry points!
"If you want a good league table, look at the one posted by Lawz in this same forum"- this does not rank Bournmouth et al. AnoosLaw is particularly interested in information appertaining to his reserve choices, rather than Oxbridge, UCL, LSE etc
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