Overview

If you’d like a dynamic and fulfilling job in law, learn from the best at VU. Our lecturers and adjunct professors include some of Australia’s most reputable legal professionals, sharing their many years of experience and knowledge. Through this law degree you’ll get a broad perspective on legal practice and gain specialist academic and professional skills including: Interviewing and advocacy ethical judgement; communication; legal research; and writing relevant legal professional computing skills.

Thanks to our partnerships with the courts and community legal services, you’ll also gain practical, real-world experience of the justice system. Our new embedded law unit ‘Internships and Law Practice’ together with its 150 hours of legal placement which can be undertaken from 2nd year onwards, will facilitate experiential learning that nurtures your confidence and belief, builds creative leadership and empowers you on graduation to positively develop your professional communities. 

Prerequisites

Year 12 prerequisites

Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 30 in English as an Additional Language (EAL) or at least 25 in English other than EAL; Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 20 in one of Economics, any History, Legal Studies, Australian Politics, Global Politics, Psychology or Sociology.

Majors

Law.

Potential Career Outcomes

When you graduate from a Bachelor of Laws at Victoria University, you’ll be in high demand because we’ll make sure you’re job-ready. You could work as a lawyer or in legal practice in areas including criminal law, family law, commercial law and business. Roles in the legal field include: solicitor lawyer policy advisor legal adviser human-rights advocate.

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 offer85.65N/P
Median rank to receive an offer74.55N/P
Lowest rank to receive an offer48.35N/P

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

Admission Criteria

Please refer to the Victoria 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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