Bangor Law School is an International Law School, set in a beautiful, environmentally pristine location, with energetic staff recruited from the world’s top law schools, and exciting programmes designed for the ambitious law student.  

Our LLB programmes have undergone rigorous Law Society and Bar Council accreditation to become Qualifying Law degrees.  This mark of quality denotes that all our degrees are recognised for professional purposes – for becoming solicitors and for becoming barristers and also confirms a broad yet thorough curriculum in the seven foundation subjects of a qualifying law degree.

Our students become involved in a wealth of academic and social activities, from regular mooting sessions to the Law Society Ball - activities designed to complement studies and to enhance employability.

In order to support our students throughout the course of their studies, both the Law School and the University centrally provides a range of learning resources supported by experienced staff.

Facilities include an extensive Law Library which has benefited from substantial investment and is overseen by a dedicated Law Librarian who provides specialist support and advice to students. It includes printed and electronic sources that reflect current teaching and research within the Law School.

The collection includes Reference, Statutes, Law Reports, Journals, Books and Pamphlets, Official Publications, Newspapers, European Documentation Centre and Online Databases.

These complement the excellent resources offered centrally by the University such as extensive IT, library and archive facilities.  Amongst these is ‘Blackboard’, a virtual learning environment where recordings of lectures, notes, reading materials and many other resources are made available for students to access.

Each student is allocated a Personal Tutor who will monitor their academic progress and offer help and support on academic and non-academic matters. Our team of experienced and multilingual staff are graduates of many leading universities, and some have been previously employed as professionals within the legal sector in roles such as judge, solicitor and magistrate.

Lectures at many renowned UK Law Schools will have a few hundred students in every lecture. In this age of tuition fees and high costs of university study, Bangor Law School on the other hand, provides fortnightly tutorials in every core module studied in addition to weekly lectures.

Tutorials generally have between 8 and 15 students, and provide students with additional support and attention, excellent value for money and the best opportunity to achieve the highest degree classification possible.

Living in Bangor enables students to combine a high-quality educational experience with a wonderful living environment. Bangor is regarded to be amongst the UK's best university locations, situated in North Wales between the mountains of Snowdonia and the Irish Sea and offering some of the finest beaches and most dramatic scenery in the country, as well as an abundance of historical sites of national importance.

Tuition fees for UK and EU undergraduate students is £9,000 while the tuition fee for overseas undergraduate students is £9,800. The cost of living in Bangor is lower than in many other university cities, making Bangor an affordable choice for postgraduate study. It is estimated that students need around £7,000 per year to cover all requirements including accommodation, food, books and clothes.

Of course, some students spend more, whilst others live comfortably on a smaller budget. Bangor is rated the second best value University city in the UK, according to a cost-of-living survey published in The Independent.   

Much of your social life will revolve around the Students’ Union, which provides services, support, activities and entertainment for students.

The Bangor Students’ Law Society aims to help Law students both academically and socially, achieving an important objective in bridging the gap between what is learnt in lectures and what is needed to succeed in a highly competitive industry.

The Society organises a wide range of activities and events for Bangor Law students in order to provide a more social and productive learning atmosphere. Some of the activities organised include a trip to London to visit the Supreme Court (where students had the opportunity to sit in on a hearing), the House of Commons and the Royal Courts of Justice; and a further visit to Cardiff to offer support to Bangor’s Law students at the Welsh National Moot Court Competition and to enjoy a tour of the National Assembly building.

Additionally, the Society organises an Annual Moot Court Competition, an invaluable opportunity for students to partake in simulated court proceedings. The event has, by now, become an important part of the Law School’s academic calendar.

Bangor Law School offers an array of extra-curricular activities designed to complement studies and to enhance employability.

Through our continuous work in developing contacts with legal practitioners across the UK, we have developed a programme of work placements with a number of law firms and corporations, designed to put students’ learning into context and to equip them with invaluable practical experience of the sort of careers they may wish to pursue after graduating. This programme is complemented by regular careers talks by guest speakers.

The award-winning Bangor Students’ Law Society organises a calendar of events intended to complement what is learnt in lectures and to expand students’ career prospects. These include the annual Moot Court competitions (in which teams of students take part in simulated court proceedings) and the opportunity to obtain the BPP Certificate in Commercial Awareness.