Program Overview

LLB Law and Business & Management

Key Facts

• UCAS Tariff: 128 - 104
• Course duration: 3 years
• Available for September start 2025

Course Overview

This joint honours degree explores two stimulating, challenging, and complementary disciplines. The Law aspects of the course are taught in the oldest and most established Law department in Wales by expert staff, many of whom have also practiced as solicitors. The Business & Management aspects of the course are taught in the Aberystwyth Business School, by active academics who have a wide range of interests across marketing, operations management, finance, accounting, strategy, human resource management, and entrepreneurship.

Modules

Year 1

• Core:
  • Fundamentals of Management and Business
  • Marketing Principles and Contemporary Practice
  • Fundamentals of Accounting and Finance
  • Legal Skills and Research
  • Legal and Criminal Justice Systems
• Options:
  • Contract Law
  • Criminal Law
  • Tort

Year 2

• Core:
  • Human Resource Management
  • Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Options:
  • Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation
  • Marketing Management
  • Climate Change and Environmental Law
  • Commercial Law
  • Company Law
  • Contract Law
  • Criminal Law
  • Drugs and Crime
  • Employment Law
  • Equity and Trusts
  • European Law
  • Family and Child Law
  • Human Rights
  • Humanitarian Law
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • International Law
  • Land Law
  • Legal Skills and Research
  • Legal and Criminal Justice Systems
  • Medicine Ethics and the Law
  • Principles of Evidence
  • Public Law
  • Sports Law and Society
  • Technology, Artificial Intelligence and the Law
  • Tort

Year 3

• Core:
  • Financial Strategy
  • Strategic Leadership
• Options:
  • Digital Business: Leadership and Management
  • Global Logistics
  • Organizational Psychology
  • Advocacy Skills
  • Business Law and Practice and Solicitors Accounts
  • Climate Change and Environmental Law
  • Commercial Law
  • Company Law
  • Criminal Law
  • Criminal Law and Practice
  • Cybercrime and Cybersecurity
  • Dispute Resolution in Contract and Tort
  • Drugs and Crime
  • Employability Skills for Professionals
  • Employment Law
  • Equity and Trusts
  • European Law
  • Family and Child Law
  • Human Rights
  • Humanitarian Law
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • International Law
  • Land Law
  • Law and Criminology Dissertation
  • Legal Practice and Public Law
  • Medicine Ethics and the Law
  • Principles of Evidence
  • Property Law and Practice
  • Public Law
  • Sports Law and Society
  • Technology, Artificial Intelligence and the Law
  • Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders
  • Wills, Trusts and Estates Law and Practice

Careers

This degree opens up a range of exciting opportunities for you. You will be a strong candidate for further training to become a solicitor, or you could consider another career path. Our graduates have found work in the following fields:

• Criminology
• Financial management
• Business
• Human resources
• International relations
• Journalism
• Education
• Chartered accountancy
• Investment banking
• Insurance
• Underwriting
• Risk management
• Marketing management
• Retail management
• Distribution and logistics management

Teaching & Learning

You will be taught through a combination of lectures, tutorials, and seminars, which are innovating and high-quality, allowing you to realize your potential. The modular basis of learning means you can tailor learning to your interests. In your lectures, you will be introduced to key concepts and relevant up-to-date information. You will also have access to recorded versions of lectures, but this should not be used as a substitute for attending in person. Tutorials and seminars are an opportunity for you to discuss particular legal and business management themes or topics, to evaluate and obtain feedback on your individual learning while at the same time improving your construction arguments.

Assessment

You will be assessed through a mixture of essays, exams, reports, individual/group projects, and oral presentations, including mooting exercises.

Typical Entry Requirements

• UCAS Tariff: 128 - 104
• A Levels: ABB-BCC
• GCSE requirements (minimum grade C/4): English or Welsh and Mathematics
• BTEC National Diploma: DDM-DMM
• International Baccalaureate: 30-28
• European Baccalaureate: 75%-65% overall
• English Language Requirements: See our Undergraduate English Language Requirements for this course. Pre-sessional English Programmes are also available for students who do not meet our English Language Requirements.

Country-Specific Entry Requirements

International students whose qualification is not listed on this page can check our Country-Specific Entry Requirements for further information.

The University welcomes undergraduate applications from students studying the Access to Higher Education Diploma or T-level qualifications, provided that relevant subject content and learning outcomes are met. We are not able to accept Access to Higher Education Diplomas or T-levels as a general qualification for every undergraduate degree course.

Our inclusive admissions policy values breadth as well as depth of study. Applicants are selected on their own individual merits, and offers can vary. If you would like to check the eligibility of your qualifications before submitting an application, please contact the Undergraduate Admissions Office for advice and guidance.