[iamjeeoh]

As it stands I'm going to a poly university to do a law degree, and I've chosen to do so on the basis of genuine satisfaction with the university. Its around about 60-50 on the league tables so its ok .

However I want to put a little bit more into my academic qualification later on so I am curious as to what it may say about doing a masters at a russell group/rb university. Also I really do enjoy reading law so I wouldn't be doing a masters soley the basis of employment, but also because I enjoy it.

[roh]

(Original post by iamjeeoh)
As it stands I'm going to a poly university to do a law degree, and I've chosen to do so on the basis of genuine satisfaction with the university. Its around about 60-50 on the league tables so its ok .

However I want to put a little bit more into my academic qualification later on so I am curious as to what it may say about doing a masters at a russell group/rb university. Also I really do enjoy reading law so I wouldn't be doing a masters soley the basis of employment, but also because I enjoy it.

You may enjoy it less after 3 years studying it solidly!

It seems the masters to have, looking at CVs at top chambers, is the BCL which you'd do at Oxford. So far as I'm aware the main difference to it's main, all too predictable, rival the Cambridge LLM is that you still enjoy the benefit of the tutorials for which Oxbridge is famed on the BCL but I'm happy to be corrected on this.

Quite a few go to America to do one too on a range of international scholarships eg. Fulbright.

Otherwise it's usually said that a Masters doesn't prove much job wise unless it's in an area very specific to the job you want to go into (eg. Medical Law if you intend to go into Clinical Negligence). If you just want to study one for academic interest, which is in my opinion the best reason to do one, I think a high 2.1 from Brighton would put you in a good position for an RG LLM and things such as a strong dissertation may have an influence.

Beware Masters can be expensive though and you don't get student loan for them so you'll need to save up both the tuition fees and enough to cover your living costs during your undergrad degree.

This might be useful to read: http://pupillageandhowtogetit.wordpr...demic-degrees/

[iamjeeoh]

(Original post by roh)
You may enjoy it less after 3 years studying it solidly!

It seems the masters to have, looking at CVs at top chambers, is the BCL which you'd do at Oxford. So far as I'm aware the main difference to it's main, all too predictable, rival the Cambridge LLM is that you still enjoy the benefit of the tutorials for which Oxbridge is famed on the BCL but I'm happy to be corrected on this.

Quite a few go to America to do one too on a range of international scholarships eg. Fulbright.

Otherwise it's usually said that a Masters doesn't prove much job wise unless it's in an area very specific to the job you want to go into (eg. Medical Law if you intend to go into Clinical Negligence). If you just want to study one for academic interest, which is in my opinion the best reason to do one, I think a high 2.1 from Brighton would put you in a good position for an RG LLM and things such as a strong dissertation may have an influence.

Beware Masters can be expensive though and you don't get student loan for them so you'll need to save up both the tuition fees and enough to cover your living costs during your undergrad degree.

This might be useful to read: http://pupillageandhowtogetit.wordpr...demic-degrees/

Oh yes the funding for it. I only found out about that a few months ago and was pretty much like "oh no!" . Oh well.

I would hope if I get into Brighton that I'd finish with a high 2:1 but I really want to get a 1st with honours .

If I did do a postgrad in law it would have to have something to do with criminality and criminal justice. Being a defence barrister is something which really interests me.

[roh]

(Original post by iamjeeoh)
Oh yes the funding for it. I only found out about that a few months ago and was pretty much like "oh no!" . Oh well.

I would hope if I get into Brighton that I'd finish with a high 2:1 but I really want to get a 1st with honours .

If I did do a postgrad in law it would have to have something to do with criminality and criminal justice. Being a defence barrister is something which really interests me.

Yeah it's a pain, there are sometimes scholarships and so on but my friends applying for them have found they are somewhat limited, with the possible exception of the super rich Oxbridge but some of that is lost as those 2 charge more for the LLM/BCL.

You get Honours whatever so long as you get above 40%, but some unis have an 'Honour Roll' which is the top 10% or something like that which you may be thinking of.

In that case you may want to follow the experts in that area (for example I know my uni has a guy called Clarkson who's one of the two authours of the main textbook on criminal) rather than more general Law research strength. You'll work this out for yourself when you see certain unis crop up again and again as the bases of authours you're reading. Another thing you may find with that is some of the masters that appeal are in Criminology rather than Law departments depending what particular part of Criminal interests you most.

[iamjeeoh]

(Original post by roh)
Yeah it's a pain, there are sometimes scholarships and so on but my friends applying for them have found they are somewhat limited, with the possible exception of the super rich Oxbridge but some of that is lost as those 2 charge more for the LLM/BCL.

You get Honours whatever so long as you get above 40%, but some unis have an 'Honour Roll' which is the top 10% or something like that which you may be thinking of.

In that case you may want to follow the experts in that area (for example I know my uni has a guy called Clarkson who's one of the two authours of the main textbook on criminal) rather than more general Law research strength. You'll work this out for yourself when you see certain unis crop up again and again as the bases of authours you're reading. Another thing you may find with that is some of the masters that appeal are in Criminology rather than Law departments depending what particular part of Criminal interests you most.

Oh I see. Its all really exciting stuff . But first I must wait for Alevel results in August.