[mox123]

how significantly harder is LLB to BA ??

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[mox123]

Anyone?

[gethsemane342]

I wasn't aware it was - I do the BA Hons at Cambridge and am somewhat surprised to learn my degree is easier than everyone else's :s Having googled the matter, there isn't much of a difference - BA is geared more towards academia than practice but that's it and both are qualifying law degrees.

[mja]

(Original post by gethsemane342)
I wasn't aware it was - I do the BA Hons at Cambridge and am somewhat surprised to learn my degree is easier than everyone else's :s Having googled the matter, there isn't much of a difference - BA is geared more towards academia than practice but that's it and both are qualifying law degrees.

The difference between a BA and an LLB depends entirely on the University. In Oxford and Cambridge all undergraduate degrees are BA.

Elsewhere a BA in law is sometimes a non-qualifying law degree, in contrast to an LLB. But this isn't a hard and fast rule. And even where this distinction does exist, it is often just a case of which modules a student has chosen. It isn't obvious that a student who, say, takes jurisprudence instead of EU law has done an "easier" degree - or that the converse is "harder".

[gethsemane342]

(Original post by mja)
The difference between a BA and an LLB depends entirely on the University. In Oxford and Cambridge all undergraduate degrees are BA.

Elsewhere a BA in law is sometimes a non-qualifying law degree, in contrast to an LLB. But this isn't a hard and fast rule. And even where this distinction does exist, it is often just a case of which modules a student has chosen. It isn't obvious that a student who, say, takes jurisprudence instead of EU law has done an "easier" degree - or that the converse is "harder".

Fair enough. My info was taken from Yahoo answers so not exactly the best research I've ever done ^_^