Bachelor of Law - Law and Criminal Justice (Honours) (with placement year)

This four-year sandwich route places the Law and Criminal Justice curriculum around a working year in the justice system — criminal practice firms, court services, justice charities, or civilian roles supporting investigative agencies — between the taught levels. The academic programme matches the standard degree: full qualifying-LLB foundations plus the criminology, evidence and penal-system strand that defines the award.

A placement year in this field does double duty: it banks SQE qualifying work experience where the host and documentation permit, and it tests the student’s genuine appetite for criminal work before final-year options lock a direction — a meaningful benefit in a practice area that consumes its juniors emotionally as well as professionally. The school’s regional justice network, built through decades of pro bono operation, supplies much of the seat pipeline.

Placement-seeking students in this specialism should widen the definition of a legal seat: courts service operations, youth-justice teams, victim-support charities and police civilian units all offer placement experience the sector respects, and several count toward SQE qualifying experience where supervision arrangements permit — the school’s placement briefing maps which hosts historically confirm it. The taught-year fee holds at £16,800 across the four-year plan, and September entries run in all three cycles recorded by the export.

Frame the recommendation by intent: for students committed to criminal or justice-sector careers this variant delivers experience, references and banked qualification credit that the three-year route cannot; for the undecided, the standard LLB preserves flexibility a year sooner. Completion falls under the 18-month Graduate Route allowance governing post-2026 applications, with dependants excluded throughout on the taught student route.