QMUL vs Nottingham vs Leeds - Law

There will be employability stats available if you look in the right places. But those are just high level stats - the number of people residing in the UK deemed to be in graduate level employment. It doesn’t say anything about what that work is and the definition of what is graduate level is highly questionable (both too higha a benchmark in some instances and too low in others).

Generally speaking, the four are all comparable.

Some may argue that Newcastle is slightly lower than the other three, but if you wanted to stay in the North East to work, then Newcastle would be easier in terms of employability than QMUL or Birmingham. All three universities are targeted by law firms. If you are interested in legal careers, then go and look at the following:

1) How many firms/Chambers sponsor their law society and the type of firms that sponsor them - only takes a view of their website or Facebook page to get an indication

2) which firms/Chambers attended their law fair

This will give you an indication of how “targeted” then university is, although that doesn’t give you any indication of your own employability chances.

From a London city law firm’s perspective, I think the four are comparable (as already stated), maybe Newcastle is edged out slightly but the other three I really wouldn’t be able to say which was more “prestigious” - I personally think they are about the same. Newcastle is probably only edged out as there are fewer Newcastle applicants applying to city law firms compared to Manchester, Birmingham and QM.

Most firms don’t really care about presitige on the granular level you (and others expect).

QM’s law faculty is probably one of its most reputable. Other departments are not so strong. QM will vary depending on the weighting the metrics the rankings use. It’s strength comes in research in particular areas like international arbitration.

If the reputation of the university in your home country is important, then of course factor that in. But in the UK there isn’t really a difference between a law faculty rated 15th and the next as 31st (difference between QM and Manchester in the good university guide for LLBs).

QM’s law faculty is probably one of its most reputable. Other departments are not so strong. QM will vary depending on the weighting the metrics the rankings use. It’s strength comes in research in particular areas like international arbitration.