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UCL vs LSE LLB Law

Current and past students please give me your honest opinions on social life (genuinely), career guidance and prospects, organisation of the course, quality of teaching from professors, societies like IndianSoc, Dance, Mooting etc. Any opinions welcome!

Debates in my head currently (feel free to disagree) -

LSE is more prestigious as a uni as a whole but UCL seems to be better in rankings for Law especially.
UCL seems to have a much better social life but LSE has a reputation for students saying 'it's what you make of it' with lots of finance bros.
UCL seems to be better for dance and societies I've mentioned.
Student satisfaction seems to be low for LSE with the LLB course.

I've received offers for both but the threads comparing the two are quite outdated now.

Please help me decide and warn me if I'm making the wrong decision!

Reply 1

yeah i’m honestly so confused about this too bc so many people have heard so many different things

Reply 2

ooh what have you heard, pls tell x

Reply 3

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by Anonymous
ooh what have you heard, pls tell x

a lot of past lse students have complained about the quality of teaching and the fact that teachers are more focused on the research that lse is renowned for rather than actually helping out their students, but that info came from a post that was about 5 years old so i’m not sure how much that’s changed. ucl is more highly ranked on league tables and i haven’t heard any complaints about teaching, but rather the opposite.

in terms of social life, it seems to depend on what people you’d like to surround yourself with - lse seems to apparently have a higher number of international students (although i’m not sure how accurate that is) and there’s a much less varied range of people going as they only offer a small selection of subjects. ucl has a much larger student base as it offers courses across the board - not just law and humanities, but sciences too which often means that there’s a wider variety of people there, probably leading to a better reputation in terms of student life and socialising.

i’m not sure about clubs/societies, and this is all stuff i’ve learnt second hand from different forums like this one, so i’d also be really interested what actual current students have to say about either university now

Reply 4

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by Anonymous
a lot of past lse students have complained about the quality of teaching and the fact that teachers are more focused on the research that lse is renowned for rather than actually helping out their students, but that info came from a post that was about 5 years old so i’m not sure how much that’s changed. ucl is more highly ranked on league tables and i haven’t heard any complaints about teaching, but rather the opposite.
in terms of social life, it seems to depend on what people you’d like to surround yourself with - lse seems to apparently have a higher number of international students (although i’m not sure how accurate that is) and there’s a much less varied range of people going as they only offer a small selection of subjects. ucl has a much larger student base as it offers courses across the board - not just law and humanities, but sciences too which often means that there’s a wider variety of people there, probably leading to a better reputation in terms of student life and socialising.
i’m not sure about clubs/societies, and this is all stuff i’ve learnt second hand from different forums like this one, so i’d also be really interested what actual current students have to say about either university now


ooooh vv interesting

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