About this program
UQ Law School is consistently rated among the top two or three in the country, and the LLB (Honours) benefits from that reputation in ways that show up in specific programs: its Pro Bono Centre places students in real supervised legal work with community legal centres and Legal Aid Queensland, and the law school runs one of the more active international mooting programs in Australia, regularly sending teams to competitions like the Willem C. Vis arbitration moot in Vienna.
Students take the LLB combined with another degree (arts, commerce, science, and others are common pairings), which stretches the program to five years but means graduates leave with genuine breadth rather than a law-only credential. UQ also has particular research strength in areas like international law and human rights, taught by academics with real practice or UN-adjacent backgrounds, and third and fourth-year elective offerings reflect that rather than sticking to a generic elective list.
Brisbane's legal market is smaller than Sydney's or Melbourne's, but UQ graduates dominate hiring at the state's top-tier firms and at the Queensland Bar, and the law school's clerkship placement rates into those firms are a large part of why the program remains competitive to enter despite Queensland having several other law schools to choose from.
Fees & duration
English test scores
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Course structure
Study plan in 5 parts
- Years 1-2: Legal Method and Reasoning
- Contracts
- Torts
- Criminal Law
- Property Law
- plus first two years of paired degree (Arts, Commerce, Science, or other)
- Years 3-4: Equity
- Constitutional Law
- Administrative Law
- Corporations Law
- Evidence
- Civil and Criminal Procedure
- continued paired degree units
- Year 5 (honours): Advanced electives (options include International Law, Human Rights Law, Competition Law)
- honours thesis or advanced coursework
- Professional Responsibility
- Co-curricular: Pro Bono Centre placements
- international mooting competitions
- Practical Legal Training required post-graduation for admission as a solicitor
Career & PR pathway
Occupations this degree typically leads to, and their skilled-migration list status
SolicitorANZSCO 271311
On both MLTSSL and CSOL, but a positive skills assessment is not the same as being able to practise. You must first be admitted to an Australian state legal profession, which for an overseas or JD graduate means passing the assessed academic subjects, completing Practical Legal Training, and being admitted by the state Supreme Court, before the occupation is realistically usable for a visa.
Assessed by VETASSESS
BarristerANZSCO 271111
On both MLTSSL and CSOL, supporting the points-tested 189, 190, and 491 as well as the employer-sponsored 482 and 186. As with Solicitor, a positive skills assessment is not the same as being able to practise: you must be admitted to the bar in an Australian state or territory before the occupation is realistically usable for a visa. Assessed by the state or territory Legal Admissions Authority, not VETASSESS.
Assessed by State or Territory Legal Admissions Authority
List membership changes over time and does not guarantee an invitation. See the skilled occupation lists guide and the points calculator before relying on this for a visa decision.
Admissions
UQ's published 'recent entry scores' for Semester 1, 2027 domestic admission: lowest adjusted ATAR 97.5, median (unadjusted) 97.7.
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