Overview

Enhance your employability within the legal industry and learn all the areas of law required to satisfy professional accreditation through the Legal Practitioners Admissions Board with the Bachelor of Laws.

During your studies you will learn about legal procedures and key legislation and be given the opportunity to develop skills necessary to identify, analyse and evaluate facts in relation to legal frameworks.

The core areas of law covered in the course match those required for admission to the legal profession (Priestley 11) and other requirements of the Law Admissions Consultative Committee including statutory interpretation, criminal law and procedure, contracts, torts, federal and state constitutional law, equity (including trusts), administrative law, property, company law, evidence, ethics and  professional responsibility and civil dispute resolution.

Prerequisites

English Standard (Band 2).

Majors

Areas of study

Administrative law, commercial law, constitutional law, contracts, corporations law, criminal law, family law, jurisprudence, legal drafting, property law, torts, trusts.

Potential Career Outcomes

Career opportunities

Solicitor, barrister, government legal officer, judicial officer, law academic, company director, in-house counsel.

ATAR & Selection Rank

The table below shows the ATAR and Selection Rank information for those offered places wholly or partly on the basis of ATAR in 2023.

ATAR-based offers only, across all offer rounds
ATAR
(excluding adjustment factors)
Selection Rank
(including adjustment factors)
Highest rank to receive an offer90.8590.85
Median rank to receive an offer79.3081.25
Lowest rank to receive an offer75.7077.15

<5 - Less than 5 ATAR-based offers were made

Admission Criteria

Please refer to the Central Queensland University website for admission criteria information.

Course Seeker

This information is sourced from Course Seeker, a joint initiative between the Australian Government and the Tertiary Admission Centres. View more information on Course Seeker.


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