Law with Business Management
Law is a discipline that develops some of the most rigorous and practically useful habits of mind available at undergraduate level: the ability to read complex texts with precision, to construct and evaluate arguments, to identify relevant principles and apply them to unfamiliar situations, and to communicate your reasoning clearly under pressure. Combining it with business management gives you a second set of lenses, drawn from economics, organisational theory and strategy, that prepares you for the increasingly important intersection between law and commercial life.
At the University of Hull you will study law alongside business management over four years, with study abroad available as part of the programme. The Law School at Hull takes a distinctive approach, treating students as professionals in the making from the outset and offering a community-oriented and personally engaged learning environment. You will cover the core areas of English and Welsh law, including contract, tort, public law, criminal law and equity, developing the legal reasoning and analytical skills that underpin both legal practice and a wide range of other careers.
The business management component gives you grounding in areas such as strategy, marketing, finance and organisational behaviour, connecting legal knowledge to the commercial world in which most graduates will work.
Graduates of law with business management are well positioned for careers across a wide spectrum. Legal practice as a solicitor or barrister is one route, subject to completing the relevant professional qualifications. But the combination also opens doors in commercial roles, management, banking and finance, compliance and risk, human resources, and consultancy, where legal awareness and business acumen together make a strong profile.
The civil service, public sector management and the charity sector also recruit law graduates. Postgraduate study in law, business or a related field is an option for those wishing to specialise or to pursue academic research.