Learn law and criminology, gain practical experience and enhance your career prospects. Study legal and criminal justice principles, rules and practice and the effect of law in society from complementary academic and practical perspectives. Gain legal work experience within our own regulated legal practice, SHU Law. Engage in real legal work in a range of practice areas including private litigation, criminal appeals, and pro-bono advice clinics. Study on a course that scored 94% for student satisfaction in the 2017 National Student Survey. Benefit from an academically rigorous and career-enhancing education, which includes unique work-related modules designed to give you the practical edge needed in today's competitive employment market. This course is a fully-qualifying degree, satisfying the standards of the Solicitors Regulation Authority and Bar Standards Board for legal training.

Future careers Your degree can be the first step towards a career in law, public sector and criminal justice professions, and the wider business and commercial sector. This course prepares you for a career in solicitors' firms barristers' chambers the police, probation and prison services financial services local government Crown Prosecution Service victim support