Law with Business

DipHE or LLB Law (Hons) or CertHE

UCAS code: M2N1

Start dates: September 2025 / September 2026

Full time: 3 years (4 years with a placement year)

Part time: 6 years

Location: Headington

School(s): Oxford Brookes Business School, School of Law and Social Sciences

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Overview

What legal issues do businesses face? Join our specialist Law with Business LLB programme to build your legal knowledge and gain commercial awareness. You’ll advance your insight and expertise across complementary disciplines.

You’ll develop a deep understanding of the legal context in which businesses operate. You'll explore company law, commercial law and many other legal concepts, values and principles.

There are opportunities to build your skills through mooting and client interviewing, and perhaps even join our nationally-acclaimed mooting team. You’ll also have access to mentoring schemes and employability opportunities.

We’re a friendly, supportive community. Tutors will encourage you to join in with our activities and events.

You'll graduate ready for ongoing professional training such as the Bar course for Barristers, or preparation courses for the Solicitors’ Qualifying Exam.

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Law with Business, DipHE/CertHE/LLB Law Hons degree course students in mooting court at Oxford Brookes University

Why Oxford Brookes University?

  • You’re our priority

    Help is always easy to access with regular meetings with your Academic Advisor, who will be a member of academic staff from the School of Law. Many tutors are involved in high profile legal research which informs their teaching.

  • Gain practical experience

    Academic staff will help you make the most of extra-curricular opportunities including client interviewing and pro bono opportunities.

  • Test your legal skills

    Try mooting and test your skills of legal argument and communication in our Moot court.

  • Optional year abroad

    This module provides you with the opportunity to apply and test your subject knowledge, skills and competencies either by studying abroad or work-based learning.

  • Specialist knowledge

    Gain understanding of the legal context in which businesses operate.

Course details

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Study modules

Teaching for this course takes place face to face and you can expect around 8 hours of contact time per week. In addition to this, you should also anticipate a workload of 1,200 hours per year. Teaching usually takes place Monday to Friday, between 9.00am and 6.00pm.

Contact hours involve activities such as lectures, seminars, practicals, assessments, and academic advising sessions. These hours differ by year of study and typically increase significantly during placements or other types of work-based learning.

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Please note: As our courses are reviewed regularly as part of our quality assurance framework, the modules you can choose from may vary from those shown here. The structure of the course may also mean some modules are not available to you.

Careers

After completing the course, you’ll be ready to take the next steps towards a rewarding career. A law degree can lead to a variety of careers. You could take the Bar Course and become a barrister, or start your preparation for the Solicitors’ Qualifying Exam. 

Not all of our graduates go into the legal profession. For example, graduates have joined the finance sector, Police and the Civil Service, and one is now a senior policy adviser in the Home Office. There will also be many opportunities open to you in the corporate world. Graduates have gone on to a wide range of roles at large companies like Aldi, Virgin Mobile, Intel and Yell, as well as innovative micro businesses in a range of industries.

Whatever your plans, you’ll have developed a range of skills which will make you a valuable employee.

To gain further specialist legal knowledge and carve your own career path, you could undertake one of our postgraduate LLM Master of Law pathways

Student profiles

Entry requirements

Wherever possible we make our conditional offers using the UCAS Tariff. The combination of A-level grades listed here would be just one way of achieving the UCAS Tariff points for this course.

Standard offer

UCAS Tariff Points: 104

A Level: BCC

IB Points: 29

BTEC: DMM

Contextual offer

UCAS Tariff Points: 88

A Level: CCD

IB Points: 27

BTEC: MMM

Further offer details

Wherever possible we make our conditional offers using the UCAS Tariff. This combination of A-level grades would be just one way of achieving the UCAS Tariff points for this course.

Applications are also welcomed for consideration from applicants with European qualifications, international qualifications or recognised foundation courses. For advice on eligibility please contact Admissions: admissions@brookes.ac.uk

If you don’t achieve the required tariff points you can apply to join a foundation course or international foundation course to help to reach the required level for entry onto this degree.

International qualifications and equivalences

Tuition fees

Please see the fees note
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Questions about fees?

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Tuition fees

2024 / 25
Home (UK) full time
£9,250

Home (UK) part time
£1,155 per single module

International full time
£15,950

2025 / 26
Home (UK) full time
£9,535

Home (UK) part time
£1,190 per single module

International full time
£16,750

Questions about fees?

Contact Student Finance on:

+44 (0)1865 534400

financefees@brookes.ac.uk

Please note, tuition fees for Home students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students in line with an inflationary amount determined by government. Oxford Brookes University intends to maintain its fees for new and returning Home students at the maximum permitted level.

For further information please see our 2025-26 tuition fees FAQs.

Tuition fees for International students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students.

The following factors will be taken into account by the University when it is setting the annual fees: inflationary measures such as the retail price indices, projected increases in University costs, changes in the level of funding received from Government sources, admissions statistics and access considerations including the availability of student support. 

How and when to pay

Tuition fee instalments for the semester are due by the Monday of week 1 of each semester. Students are not liable for full fees for that semester if they leave before week 4. If the leaving date is after week 4, full fees for the semester are payable.

  • For information on payment methods please see our Make a Payment page.
  • For information about refunds please visit our Refund policy page

Additional costs

Please be aware that some courses will involve some additional costs that are not covered by your fees. Specific additional costs for this course are detailed below.

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Programme changes:
On rare occasions we may need to make changes to our course programmes after they have been published on the website. For more information, please visit our changes to programmes page.