Transferring uni/course(llb law with international business to llb law with business)

Hi am 19 and I am currently considering transfering from reading uni to exerter cornwall. I am currently doing the normal llb law degree at reading ,but i plan to transfer to the llb law with international business in my second semester at reading so i will be able to then transfer from the llb law with international business in my first year at reading to the llb law with business at exerter cornwall.Both degrees are law qualifying degrees so is it worth changing first of all as the whole russell group thing is what's attracting me more to go to study at exerter cornwall .So might first question is would that be a good and right change?I have also heard that the Stretham campus is more prestigious than the penryn campus including all of the courses so because of that would it be worth not transfering and continuing to study the normal llb law at the university of reading ?.I want to become a barrister in London or hopefully America

Reply 1

Stiffy Byng

My recommendation is that you stay at Reading, which is as good if not better than Exeter, and that you do not dilute your law degree by studying business.

My chambers recruits university-blind, but we prefer rigorous academic degrees to flakey subjects such as business, and I don't think that we are alone in this.

You can learn about business by reading, and by practising law for business clients.

Please note that university-blind recruitment is becoming widespread in law firms and barristers' chambers.

The Russell Group is a marketing group, and the fact that a university is not a member of the Russell Group does not mean that the university is not a good university. Reading is a good university.

To practise in the USA, you would need to pass the Bar exam in one of the States, and have or obtain the legal right to work in the USA. . Possession of a UK law degree makes you eligible to take the Bar exam in New York, amongst others.

PS: Congrats for being one of the very few people on TSR who knows how to spell Russell! Exeter has one r, by the way.

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Reply 2

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Original post by Stiffy Byng

My recommendation is that you stay at Reading, which is as good if not better than Exeter, and that you do not dilute your law degree by studying business.
My chambers recruits university-blind, but we prefer rigorous academic degrees to flakey subjects such as business, and I don't think that we are alone in this.
You can learn about business by reading, and by practising law for business clients.
Please note that university-blind recruitment is becoming widespread in law firms and barristers' chambers.
The Russell Group is a marketing group, and the fact that a university is not a member of the Russell Group does not mean that the university is not a good university. Reading is a good university.
To practise in the USA, you would need to pass the Bar exam in one of the States, and have or obtain the legal right to work in the USA. . Possession of a UK law degree makes you eligible to take the Bar exam in New York, amongst others.
PS: Congrats for being one of the very few people on TSR who knows how to spell Russell! Exeter has one r, by the way.

Thank you I really appreciate it the llb law degree with business at Exerter Cornwall is 75% law and 25% business and it is a qualifying law degree so thats why i am consdiering it ,but do you reckon i might be at a disadvantage in any way in becoming a barrister if I ended up transferring.

Reply 3

Stiffy Byng

I cannot see any advantage in transferring, unless you are unhappy at Reading.

If you were interviewed for a pupillage and someone asked you why you had moved from one university to another, what would your answer be?

There might be a risk that you would be seen as having taken a soft option.