Bachelor of Law - Business Law (Honours) (with placement year)

The sandwich route through Business Law runs the commercially-specialised qualifying LLB around a placement year typically spent in-house — corporate legal departments, compliance functions, procurement teams — or in commercial practice groups, producing a four-year degree whose graduates have already worked the documents their modules dissect. Foundation subjects and the commercial option stack mirror the three-year course exactly.

Business-law placements offer the same SQE advantage as the general legal placement — qualifying work experience banked before graduation where properly recorded — with an additional edge: in-house environments expose students to the client side of legal service, an increasingly common qualification destination as companies grow their own legal teams rather than briefing firms. The school’s regional network supplies seats across Midlands corporates and financial services operations.

In-house placement seats carry a hidden numerical advantage this variant’s students should exploit: company legal teams are small, so placement students attend the meetings, see the negotiations and draft the documents that large-firm placement cohorts queue for — responsibility density that shows in final-year work and interviews alike. The four-year plan runs on the standard £16,800 taught-year fee.

Position the choice plainly: for a student whose end-state is corporate or in-house law, this variant compresses the distance to it — specialised transcript, banked experience, commercial references — at the cost of a year’s delay that placement salary substantially funds. Graduation around 2030 falls under the 18-month Graduate Route settlement for post-2026 applications, and taught study visas continue to exclude dependant family members across all four years.