Law and Criminology BCL (LWC)

Law and Criminology BCL (LWC)

Advanced certificate
48 months
Application deadlines: July 1
Processing time: 10 days
Application fee: A$150
Full-time
Intakes: September
International tuition: A$14,000
Domestic tuition: A$6,565

Program overview

No other university in Ireland offers the option of studying law with criminology as part of an accredited law degree. Unique interdisciplinary programme with perspectives from sociology, psychology and economics, as well as law. Be taught by leading international experts in the field with research interests in prisons, the death penalty, human trafficking, counter-terrorism and mental health.

Study options

Study options
This program can be done
On campus

Requirements

Exams:

  • IELTS
Leaving Certificate applicants are required to present (as a minimum): 2H5 & 4O6/H7 and O6/H7 in Irish, English.

Career opportunities

As a graduate of this programme you will be in a position to immediately enter professional training, either by sitting the Law Society of Ireland’s FE1 examinations for entry to the solicitors’ profession or the Honorable Society of King’s Inns’ Barrister-at-Law Degree entrance examination for entry to the barristers’ profession. Studying law also opens up a whole range of career options outside of being a lawyer. This programme allows students with an interest in law to broaden their career prospects into the criminal justice world, opening up potential careers in the Gardaí, security services, data analytics, probation, the prison service, Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) sector and research institutes. The Department of Law also offers a range of postgraduate study options in related fields such as a MA (Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice) and LL.M. (International Justice).

Campus location

Maynooth , Ireland

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