Subject area
Law
Grouped here when the official title names law, legal studies or jurisprudence. U4S gives no legal or immigration advice and states nothing about qualification routes.
Law degrees teach a legal system: its sources, institutions, procedure and substantive areas such as contract, criminal, constitutional and international law. Legal education is national by nature, and the route from a law degree to qualifying to practise differs in every jurisdiction.
The programmes below were read from institutions’ own catalogues and grouped here by U4S. That grouping is an editorial judgement about the published title, not a statement from any institution, and two programmes sitting on this page are not thereby equivalent — content, entry requirements and the qualification awarded can differ substantially between them and between countries.
What this page holds
- Programmes
- 152
- Institutions
- 40
- Countries
- 12
Coverage reflects which catalogues could be read, not which institutions teach the subject. An institution absent from this page may well run programmes in it.
Bachelor's programmes
Master's programmes
Doctorate programmes
| Programme | Institution | Level | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law, JD / Criminology and Justice Policy | Northeastern Universitythe United States | Doctorate | Not reviewed |
Postgraduate programmes
Diploma / certificate programmes
| Programme | Institution | Level | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business Law | Northeastern Universitythe United States | Diploma / certificate | Not reviewed |
| Certificate Law | University of OttawaCanada | Diploma / certificate | Not reviewed |
| Diploma in Professional Legal Practice [PgDip] | The University of Glasgowthe United Kingdom | Diploma / certificate | Not reviewed |
| Graduate Certificate in Law of the Sea | University of WollongongAustralia | Diploma / certificate | Not reviewed |
| Graduate Certificate of Australian Law | Deakin UniversityAustralia | Diploma / certificate | Not reviewed |
| Law and Humanities | University of Wisconsin–Madisonthe United States | Diploma / certificate | Not reviewed |
Degree level not reviewed
The catalogues these were read from list programmes without declaring a level, and U4S does not infer one from a programme’s name.
Related subject areas
Adjacent fields a student comparing this one would usually also look at.
- Politics and International RelationsGrouped here as an academic subject label only, when the official title names politics, political science, international
- EconomicsGrouped here when the official title names economics or econometrics. Programmes that combine economics with another fie
- AccountingGrouped here when the official title names accounting, accountancy or audit. U4S does not state whether any programme is
- Sociology and Social SciencesGrouped here when the official title names sociology, anthropology, social policy, social work or development studies.

