School of Law

How do you select applicants?

Academic grades normally form only one part of our final decision to offer someone a place on one of our undergraduate programmes.

The selection criteria treats all applicants fairly and does not discriminate unlawfully on grounds of marital status, gender, gender re-assignment or transsexual status, race, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, political or other opinion, social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status.

The Faculty Admissions Office and School of Law Admissions Tutor assess all UCAS applications on academic and non-academic criteria.

We place a large number of applicants for all programmes other than the BA Criminal Justice and Criminology programme on hold until a fuller picture of our body of applicants emerges later in the admissions cycle.

We do not operate a first-come, first served system because of the number and quality of the applications we receive, so we are not able to give an immediate decision on every application.

We will send you a letter to notify you if your application is one of many that we are holding on to at that stage, but also to reassure you that you will receive a decision from us as soon as possible -- normally no later than the end of March.

In assessing each UCAS application, we pay close attention to the academic record, examining academic achievement in A levels (predicted or actual), AS level examination grades and GCSE grades, and the context of the application. We make offers to those applicants with the best overall profiles.