Law LLB

Durham University · honours · 3 years · optional foundation year · optional placement year · optional year abroad · UCAS 4350course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £36,000 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£36,000

median, based on 185 graduates · half earned £27,000–£51,000 · Discover Uni (LEO)

Year 13 · applying

What do you need to get in?

Entry requirements for this course are not yet on file; see the university’s course page.

Durham course page, read 19 September 2026 · Discover Uni entry profile

Who actually got in: 98% with A levels, 1% with the IB. 19% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 380 entrants.

UCAS tariff points — a points scale for grades: A* = 56, A = 48, so A*A*A = 160. Entrants’ totals include extra subjects.

After graduating

Where does it lead?

£36,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£27k
Median£36k
Upper quarter£51k

Median — the middle earner: half earned more, half less. Pay is for graduates of this subject at this university who finished in 2016-18, not adjusted for inflation; based on 185 graduates.

Discover Uni dataset (HESA and Office for Students, CC BY 4.0, contains HESA data); earnings from the Longitudinal Education Outcomes data (Department for Education) · aggregation level 24, 14, 23

Half of graduates earned between £27,000 and £51,000. Five years on, the median is £53,000. 87% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 77% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 12% left97%335
In work or study, 15 months on22% studying87%235
Professional or managerial job77%135
Pay 15 months on, median£27,00085
Pay 3 years on, median£36,000185
Pay 5 years on, median£53,000205
Money

What does it cost?

Fees not on file; see the university’s fees page.

Durham fees page

National Student Survey 2025-26

What do students say?

89%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 60% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 195 students answered

Highest: 97% agreed on question 3; lowest: 61% on question 25.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 194%
Question 286%
Question 397%
Question 490%
Question 593%
Question 690%
Question 783%
Question 868%
Question 990%
Question 1066%
Question 1184%
Question 1284%
Question 1394%
Question 1476%
Question 1596%
Question 1690%
Question 1789%
Question 1891%
Question 1985%
Question 2094%
Question 2191%
Question 2287%
Question 2385%
Question 2468%
Question 2561%
Question 2689%

Question texts are published by the Office for Students; the dataset carries only the question numbers.

Modules, entry requirements and fees are facts read from Durham University’s course page on 2026-09-19 and may change; the university’s page is authoritative. Descriptions are not reproduced. Outcome figures are from the Discover Uni dataset. Durham University is a trade mark of the university; sch.today is independent of it.