UndergraduateLaw
Bachelor of Laws
Victoria University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
About this program
VU's law degree requires 384 credit points across four years: 96 points of first-year core study, 132 points of professional core law units (the ones needed for admission), 108 points of law electives and 48 points of non-law electives, and is taught out of VU's City campus, which the university markets as sitting inside Melbourne's legal precinct near the courts and major firms.
Students who perform strongly early (a distinction average across the first 192 credit points) can apply to transfer into the honours version of the degree, assessed against their top 12 law units, so the honours distinction isn't set from day one the way it is at some universities. It's earned partway through. Core areas covered are the ones required for admission to legal practice everywhere in Australia: contracts, torts, property, constitutional, criminal and corporate law.
Because VU draws heavily from Melbourne's west, a lot of the clinical and community legal placement options connect students with legal aid and community legal centres in that catchment rather than corporate firm internships, which shapes the kind of practical legal experience students tend to graduate with.
Fees & duration
English test scores
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Course structure
Study plan in 4 parts
- Year 1: Introduction to Law
- Contracts
- Torts
- Legal Research and Writing
- Year 2: Criminal Law
- Property Law
- Constitutional Law
- Law elective
- Year 3: Corporate Law
- Administrative Law
- Evidence
- Law electives
- Year 4: Professional Responsibility
- Advanced law electives
- Non-law electives
- Clinical Legal Practice option
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
ATAR 70 or equivalent
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