Hi folks after clat 2023 I have ended up in a tier-3 NLU. Needless to say I am frustrated and have been preparing for clat since 2 months.
Now I recently came to know about lnat and I am quite interested in the UK higher education as well. I have checked all the lnat and uk uni related threads at LI. But there seemed to have a mixed opinion about this.
After this gap year (since I have already decided my mind on leaving this college) - I want to join somewhere stable.
So till what UK uni should I join? And after that when do I consider a tier-1 nlu in case I crack them.
Till UCL/Imperial go for a UK uni. Even if educational loan lena padhe. The ROI is amazing. After than NLS. Simple. Don’t ruin your life at a NLU and that too tier-3
As you can see from this report, nearly 80% of UK law firms offer TCs to graduates from Russell Group universities. Therefore, if that is your goal, choose ANY Russell Group Uni over ANY NLU. The guy giving advice to choose “till UCL/Imperial”is talking nonsense. Imperial doesn’t even have a law school! And the report shows that UCL gets fewer TCs than even Birmingham and Manchester! That’s because UK employers don’t fuss over rankings. They treat Russell Groups as a largely homogenous tier, with Oxbridge having only a slight edge, as the report shows.
Apart from a TC, your options can also include studying for the bar or doing an MBA in the UK. All very expensive, of course.
However, if you wish to stay in India there’s no real point of doing an LLB abroad. Go to any NLU or Jindal or Symbi. But you can do an LLM and return, applying to the usual suspects: Oxbridge, LSE, KCL, UCL, QMUL, SOAS and Warwick. Edinburgh is very good too, but the weather keeps people away.
Thank you sir/mam for your kind reply. I just want to know whether or not we can avail educational loans for these colleges as studying there will be equivalent to having an opportunity cost which will be repaid in no time.
And I have heard scholarships based on lnat as well.
if you get into oxbridge then you may take loan (even if you do not get a training contract you can get a low level finance job and pay off the loan in 5-6 years), otherwise even at Durham/LSE less than 10% get into magic circle (so beware).
Remember that overseas students pay a substantial premium over home students in terms of tuition fees.
Please don't fuss over "Magic Circle" firms. It's an archaic term that excludes many A-list firms (just as "Ivy League" excludes Stanford, MIT and Caltech) and many excellent boutique firms with specialisation in niche practice areas.
The people on LI really give terrible advice! I wonder if they're just law school kids pretending to be experienced lawyers?
Sir/mam - the total course fee for LSE (including residency bursary) is standing at 46.76 lakhs around 3 years which would be the cost at Jindal anyway. I will be availing educational loans and will try for lnat scholarships/university based scholarships as well. Will this be okay?
LSE does not have a system of streamlined scholarship offers unlike some other uk unis (like University of Nottingham,UCL or KCL). You can strive to get into these unis and then apply for a moderate loan once you get in. All the best!
another thing that you should be aware is the massive intakes in the uk law schools in recent years, some have taken upwards of 650 students per year which makes tutorial system at non-oxbridge a joke, where as before you would have 8 students in a tutorial now there are 18-20. Only oxbridge has been able to retain the old tutorial system with 2-3 students per tutorial therefore the standard is much higher even than bristol or durham.
Hi, I am a prospective applicant and am applying for Oxbridge LLM this year. Could you please let me know if you and/or your batchmates were successful in securing a TC/pupillage. I understand you might not even have wanted to go to a law firm or a chamber. I just want to get basic high level understanding of how many interested candidates are successful with their TC/pupillage apps. Any help would be great?
I have heard from a BCL alum that almost everybody interested in his cohort was successful in landing a TC or Pupilage. Could you shed some light on the truth of this statement?
Now I recently came to know about lnat and I am quite interested in the UK higher education as well. I have checked all the lnat and uk uni related threads at LI. But there seemed to have a mixed opinion about this.
After this gap year (since I have already decided my mind on leaving this college) - I want to join somewhere stable.
So till what UK uni should I join? And after that when do I consider a tier-1 nlu in case I crack them.
Your help will mean a lot.
https://www.chambersstudent.co.uk/where-to-start/newsletter/law-firms-preferred-universities-2019
Apart from a TC, your options can also include studying for the bar or doing an MBA in the UK. All very expensive, of course.
However, if you wish to stay in India there’s no real point of doing an LLB abroad. Go to any NLU or Jindal or Symbi. But you can do an LLM and return, applying to the usual suspects: Oxbridge, LSE, KCL, UCL, QMUL, SOAS and Warwick. Edinburgh is very good too, but the weather keeps people away.
And I have heard scholarships based on lnat as well.
Remember that overseas students pay a substantial premium over home students in terms of tuition fees.
The people on LI really give terrible advice! I wonder if they're just law school kids pretending to be experienced lawyers?
I am assuming you are talking about financial aid which can be handed (although in few numbers) by the college itself. Yet the total fee after financial aid will somewhere halt around 70-75 lakhs. (https://www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse/Undergraduate/fees-and-funding/undergraduate-support-scheme)
LSE does not have a system of streamlined scholarship offers unlike some other uk unis (like University of Nottingham,UCL or KCL). You can strive to get into these unis and then apply for a moderate loan once you get in. All the best!
I have heard from a BCL alum that almost everybody interested in his cohort was successful in landing a TC or Pupilage. Could you shed some light on the truth of this statement?
I was referring to the UG tutorials not BCL seminars.
if you want specific tips you have to be specific yourself