Queen Mary, University of London
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| Name: | Queen Mary, University of London | Continent: | Europe |
| Street: | 67-69 Lincoln's Inn Fields Campus | Country/State: | United Kingdom |
| City: | London | County: | England |
| Postcode: | WC2A 3JB | Department: | School of Law (Lincoln's Inn Fields Campus) |
- Queen Mary, University of London is one of the largest colleges of the University of London, with 15,000 students, and provides degree programmes and research for a broad range of subjects in Humanities, Social Sciences and Laws, in Medicine and Dentistry and in Science and Engineering.
Queen Mary is ranked 13th in the UK by the Times newspaper and 11th by the Guardian newspaper. Queen Mary was ranked 4th out of University of London multi-faculty colleges.
“The biggest star among the research-intensive institutions was Queen Mary, University of London, which went from 48th in 2001 to 13th in the 2008 Times Higher Education table, up 35 places.”
Times Higher Education
Queen Mary offers a fully integrated residential campus, including a 2,000-bed award-winning Student Village on its Mile End site. The university recently invested £200 million in facilities.
Queen Mary is also part of the federal University of London, comprising some 40 academic institutions and 120,000 students. The University of London is the biggest and most diverse university in the UK, with wide and varied facilities, including the Senate House library and the University of London Union (ULU).
- The Queen Mary School of Law comprises the Department of Law and the Centre for Commercial Law Studies. The Department of Law is located on the Mile End Campus, which is located in peaceful surroundings a stone's throw from the bustle of East London. The Centre for Commercial Law Studies is located on the Lincoln's Inn Fields Campus in central London, in close proximity to the Royal Courts of Justice and other important law institutions.
In the UK government 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, the School of Law was ranked 7th in England and 3rd in London for law, based on the percentage of staff rated 3* and 4* (4* being the highest). The School of Law scored 92% for student satisfaction In the National Student Survey (NSS) 2009 which was the highest placing overall amongst colleges in the University of London.
The School of Law has close links with many law firms and members of the law professions in the UK and elsewhere, which are involved in teaching and supporting students and activities at the School. The School also organises conferences, workshops and seminars and opportunities for continuing professional development (CPD).
The School of Law also runs a Legal Advice Centre, assisted by students, which provides free legal advice to the public.
- LLM students come from over 50 countries, including the UK. The School of Law offers 18 LLM programmes of study, namely the General LLM and 17 specialist LLM programmes. At the end of the programme, successful students are awarded a University of London LLM degree. The LLM may be taken as a one year full-time or two years part-time programme.
The LLM programmes combine classroom-based teaching assessed by formal examinations or coursework and a dissertation, which involves mainly self-study.
Classes are taken in three taught modules, for which examinations are held in May-June, and afterwards students work on a 15,000-word dissertation, which they submit in late August.
Within the General LLM, there is a lot of flexibility. Any three taught-modules may be taken and the dissertation may be in any area of law. There are over 100 LLM modules to choose from that are taught within the School of Law. Students can therefore take modules simply because they enjoy them or choose a range of modules designed with a specific career or personal goal in mind.
Students taking one of the specialised LLM programmes must study:
* Three of the taught modules on the relevant specialised list and write their dissertation in the field of specialisation
* OR three of the taught modules on the relevant specialised list and write their dissertation in any field
* OR two of the taught modules on the relevant specialised list plus a further taught module* from the general list of modules, and write their dissertation in the field of specialisation.
Students are expected to direct their own work and develop excellent legal and transferable skills.
- Students are admitted to the LLM programme based on academic merit. The standard qualification is a degree in law, or a degree with a substantial law content. For UK students, the degree must usually be of at least upper-second class honours.
Non-law graduates may also qualify if they have achieved good honours in their undergraduate degree, as well as good honours in CPE and Bar Finals/Legal Practice examinations, or passed the solicitors’ qualifying examination.
Law graduates with high 2.2 honours and not less than 5 years professional legal experience may also qualify. Other non-law graduates may be considered on the basis of exceptional professional experience that directly relates to specialist LLM taught courses.
Students from countries other than the UK must have the requisite local qualifications. As regards English language requirements, all students from countries where English is not the first language must supply an IELTS, ILEC or TOEFL test result. If a student does not reach the required standard in any of those examinations, he or she can take a presessional course at the university instead of retaking the exams. At the end of the presessional course, students can enter the LLM programme directly. There is also a free Insessional English Programme which can be taken during the LLM programme.
- Fees for 2010/2011
Home/EU
Full Time: £7,250
Part Time: £3,625
International (non-EU)
Full Time: £13,000
Part Time £6,500
Scholarships are available offered by the School of Law for its full-time taught LLM programmes. You can only apply for LLM funding if you have an offer of study in place. Scholarships are only offered to those who have received an offer.
A fee reduction of 2% is available if tuition fees are paid in full on or before enrolment. Associate students are entitled to a 10% reduction on Taught Masters tuition fees, if no other College scholarship has been offered. Sons and daughters of alumni of the College paying international fees are entitled to a 10% reduction on their tuition fees.
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