How good are the post graduate opportunities for city, university of London vs surrey

I’m starting uni this year and have received offers from both city and Surrey but I am unsure which one is better for law as Surrey is ranked higher than city but they're mainly known for Sciences than arts and humanities, and city feels like a uni that isn’t too well regarded…

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Picnicl

You mean graduate opportunities. If you say 'post graduate' it sounds like 'postgraduate', which is when you have a Masters or more than a BA/BSc. According to the opinions of the Law graduates of those universities, according to The Complete University Guide, Surrey's prospects on average are higher than City's. Of course, it depends on the individual student too (what grade they get from the university, how competent they are for the career they want).

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Tarra_CityUOL

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Original post by fascinated-audit

Hi Fascinated-audit, congratulations on your offers from both City and Surrey!

I am Tarra, a current postgraduate student studying Bar Vocational Studies (BVS) at City St George's. Since I'm not sure whether you mean postgrad opportunities as in postgraduate courses, or employment prospects upon graduation, I'd like to cover a bit of both aspects for City St George's.

Regarding postgraduate options, as the 1st institution in London to educate students at all stages of legal education and with an established history since 1852, we offer a wealth of postgrad law programmes you can join. This includes LLMs in various areas of law such as business and social responsibilities, dispute resolution, ethics etc. Plus, City St George's Bar and SQE courses offer hands-on training for barristers and solicitors respectively.

As a Bar student here, I was able to benefit from individualised learning as our teaching is done in small groups of 6-13 people. I also had knowledgeable and extremely supportive tutors who often were barristers themselves at some point in their career, making them one of the best people to teach me on the course.

Regarding employment prospects upon graduation, there are career fairs you can attend, as well as organisations with newsletters that you can sign up for to be informed of events. For example, I'm signed up to Commercial Law Academy as well as LegalCheek which advertises traineeship events for SQE, invites law firms/lawyers for talks, networking opportunities etc. For the Bar course we also have the Pupillage Advisory Service which provides CV checks, mock interview services and events with tips on how to secure a pupillage etc which is super helpful in terms of getting a pupillage after the Bar course. There are also pupillage fairs that you can attend to open yourself up to chambers as well as clubs like Speedmooting Club, Advocacy Practice Club etc! Securing employment after graduation depends on your initiative in familiarising yourself with the legal arena, and I'd say City St George's provides lots of opportunities to do this.

Would you like to share which course you are intending on taking up specifically?

Hope my answer helps so far!

Kind regards,
Tarra

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