Law applicants unfazed by tuition fee rise
The number of students applying to read law at university appears to have held up well this year, despite a near 9% fall in applications across all degree subjects in the UK.
Statistics released earlier this week by UCAS reveal that 50,000 fewer UK applicants have applied for university compared with the same point last year. The fall has been blamed on the introduction of the £9,000 maximum annual tuition fee in England.
Bucking the trend, however, law schools reported that applications this year have continued to exceed available places. Among the institutions contacted by the Gazette, Northumbria University law school reported a 7% rise in applications for its undergraduate law degree, while at Bangor University law school the number of applications is more than double that of 2010.
At Birmingham University law school, which has 220 undergraduate places, applications are almost unchanged at 1,686.
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Studying law
Still a great degree to have, the prospects aren't so good generally in the profession, but maybe more students are thinking of other ways to use a law degree in the future ?
Just recently graduated and I
Just recently graduated and I have decided to defer my LPC until further notice. However a law degree is very useful to new entrepreneurs. I have decided to set up a business firm and perhaps just top up my law degree with an MBA through distance learning, no regrets at all.
law is the best
a law is still great to have, training contracts are not so hard to find and the money is fab.
In response to
In response to iamnotanSRAemployeehonestly, I agree that a law degree is a great degree to have and can provide an excellent foundation to any career outside of law (as demonstrated by Prince King above).
However, I stuggle to see how you have reached the second and third conclusions.
Is it not widely accepted that there are vastly more LPC graduates competing for training contracts than there are available? It took me 3 years of applications and countless interviews to get my training contract. I'd say the vast majority of those that I studied with on the LPC still do not have a training contract. I certainly wouldn't say that it was easy to find by a long stretch of the imagination.
Thirdly, with the exclusion of trainees the big city firms with the coveted starting s