Law courses
Whether you’re seeking entry into the legal profession or looking to progress your career, our law courses have much to offer you. You can study one of our Qualifying Law Degrees or combine your interest in law with criminology or a modern language.
Law
Degrees
- Also known as an undergraduate or bachelors degree.
- Internationally respected, universally understood.
- An essential requirement for many high-level jobs.
- Gain a thorough understanding of your subject – and the tools to investigate, think critically, form reasoned arguments, solve problems and communicate effectively in new contexts.
- Progress to higher level study, such as a postgraduate diploma or masters degree.
- Credits measure the student workload required for the successful completion of a module or qualification.
- One credit represents about 10 hours of study over the duration of the course.
- You are awarded credits after you have successfully completed a module.
- For example, if you study a 60-credit module and successfully pass it, you will be awarded 60 credits.
How long will it take?
Law
Diplomas
- Widely recognised qualification.
- Equivalent to the first two thirds of an honours degree.
- Enhance your professional and technical skills or extend your knowledge and understanding of a subject.
- Study for interest or career development.
- Top up to a full honours degree in just two years.
- Credits measure the student workload required for the successful completion of a module or qualification.
- One credit represents about 10 hours of study over the duration of the course.
- You are awarded credits after you have successfully completed a module.
- For example, if you study a 60-credit module and successfully pass it, you will be awarded 60 credits.
How long will it take?
Law
Certificates
- Widely recognised qualification.
- Equivalent to the first third of an honours degree.
- Study for interest or career development.
- Shows that you can study successfully at university level.
- Count it towards further qualifications such as a DipHE or honours degree.
- Credits measure the student workload required for the successful completion of a module or qualification.
- One credit represents about 10 hours of study over the duration of the course.
- You are awarded credits after you have successfully completed a module.
- For example, if you study a 60-credit module and successfully pass it, you will be awarded 60 credits.
How long will it take?
Why study Law with The Open University?
As the leader in flexible learning, The Open University Law School offers world renowned and innovative legal education. With more than 60,000 students since 1998, our undergraduate law degree has become the most popular in the UK.
The benefits of studying law with us:
- Study a Qualifying Law Degree (QLD) recognised by the legal profession in England and Wales.
- Gain an in-depth understanding of the ‘Foundations of Legal Knowledge’ required for a QLD.
- Gain a qualification recognised in England and Wales by The Solicitors Regulation Authority and The Bar Standards Board.
- Obtain practical experience through an online law clinic – highly commended in the ‘Best new pro bono activity’ category at the 2018 LawWorks Pro Bono Awards.
Careers in Law
Studying law is stimulating in its own right and it’s also an asset for many careers whether in law or law-related fields. Our law degree can be the first academic stage of training to help you become a:
- Solicitor
- Barrister
- Legal Executive
- Paralegal
Looking for something other than a qualification?
The majority of our modules can be studied by themselves, on a stand-alone basis. If you later choose to work towards a qualification, you may be able to count your study towards it.
All Law courses
Browse all the Law courses we offer – certificates, diplomas and degrees.
See our full list of Law courses
Email us
From exploring the right course for you to helping you register, our advisers can help.
Call us
As part of the OU’s response to Coronavirus, we have temporarily removed this option.
Please use the ‘Email us’ option to contact us.
Write to us at:
Student Recruitment
The Open University
PO Box 197
Milton Keynes
MK7 6BJ
