Law and Business Maynooth University

Overview

Students taking this  Law and Business degree from Maynooth University are offered unparalleled flexibility and choice. Students have the option of taking a four year degree with a work placement or study year abroad (subject to availability), thus combining what they learn in university with insights into industry (legal or commercial) or another culture.

Why choose this degree?

• While the BCL covers all the core modules of law, students take less law than on the LLB, giving students more time to develop expertise in business. The main advantage is that it allows the study of law with learning in business. This combination is ideal for those who may wish to run their own practice, to work in a setting where law is applied, to work in a business itself, or to practice commercial law.

• Students who successfully complete 1st year also have the option of transferring into the 2nd year of the LLB degree.

• The defining feature of this degree is the skill-set which it provides students; future employability is enhanced by developing the student's faculties for argument and reasoning, for clear thinking, for the analysis of complicated ideas and for understanding the commercial context in which the law operates.

Career Options

• This degree combines the best elements of the University's degrees in Business and in Law to ensure students graduate with the maximum range of career options, both in Law and in Business.

• Graduates of the BCL will be eligible to take the Law Society's FE-1 entrance examinations (necessary to access training as a solicitor) and the entrance examinations for the King's Inns' Barrister-at-law degree programme (necessary to access training as a barrister).

• Business graduates are consistently among the most employable in the Irish education system. This degree opens up a whole range of career options in the commercial world such as in general management, service, IT and management organisations, consulting, journalism, policy development, the NGO sector, and national and international public administration.

• Both the School of Business and the School of Law and Criminology offer a range of postgraduate programmes for BCL (Law and Business) graduates.

Accreditation

Accredited by the Honorable Society of King's Inns.