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hong kong MA Law and MA Law Online
Reg. No. 252954
Locations: Hong Kong, Online
Start Dates: September 2021
Course Fees: HKD $120,000 (MA Law) HKD $111,500 (MA Law Online)
Extended Non-means-tested Loan Scheme (ENLS)
Our MA Law students are eligible to apply for the ENLS loan to cover their tuition fees. Information about the eligibility, application, loan limit, interest fee and other details can be found at the following website: www.wfsfaa.gov.hk/sfo/eng/schemes/nlss.htm. For further enquiries please contact ENLS enquiry hotline direct on (852) 2150-6223.
In recognising Hong Kong’s position as an international legal hub, we are offering quality postgraduate law opportunities to the city’s aspiring legal professionals, with a wide portfolio of professional law degrees, specialist legal training and on-going professional development courses for barristers and solicitors.
Why choose our MA Law and MA Law Online?
Our MA Law and MA Law Online is an alternative option to the GDL and is ideal for non-law graduates who wish to work as a lawyer or pursue a legal career. Our MA Law will also give you the opportunity to gain a legal qualification at Master’s Level.
- Gives you the opportunity to gain a legal qualification at Master’s level - enabling you to pursue a career in a wide variety of disciplines, if you wish to keep your career options open or to further enhance your career, which will be highly attractive to employers in a variety of disciplines.
- On completion of the course, you’ll also have the opportunity to progress onto the PCLL* in Hong Kong or the LPC or BPC in England or Wales to qualify as a lawyer.
- Gain practical legal skills which are highly attractive to employers such as critical evaluation and analysis alongside research and presentation skills.
- With our structured modular study pattern, foundation module assessment and teaching is spread out so you can focus on the modules studied in each semester.
- Flexible study - choose to study full-time and part-time courses as well as online.
- Access award-winning careers support to help you find employment from the moment you accept your place. It has an outstanding track record of finding students the right career path to suit them, whether in the legal sector or the wider business world.
*Entry requirements depend on individual PCLL providers, discretion on acceptance are considered by individual universities. Find out more here: www.pcea.com.hk
Why choose The University of Law?
- One of the UK’s longest-established specialist providers of legal education, since 1876 - we’ve trained more practising lawyers in the UK than anyone else.
- All our lecturers are qualified lawyers and many still practicing. You’ll benefit from their insight into today's legal world delivered either face-to-face on campus or online.
- We have locations across the UK and Hong Kong offering our postgraduate courses.
- We have the UK’s largest legal alumni group with over 90,000 members, giving our students excellent networking opportunities; many of whom are qualified lawyers in Hong Kong and Malaysia.
- We work with 90 of the top 100 UK law firms, many of whom send their trainees and lawyers exclusively to us. We also have close links with a wide range of barristers’ chambers.
- 92% of our full-time UK LLB students graduating in 2017 secured employment or further study within six months of successfully completing their course.
- 95% of our full-time UK LPC graduates secured work or further study within fifteen months of successfully completing this course**.
- Our award-winning pro bono team put your legal skills into practice by giving you access to a number of opportunities to work on cases while you’re studying.
- Our expert legal careers and employability service is one of the largest in the UK, with experts providing one-to-one support.
**95% of our 2017/18 full-time, UK, LPC graduates have secured work or further study within fifteen months of successfully completing this course, based on Graduate Outcomes data.
Eligibility
To be eligible to take up your place on our MA Law you must possess an undergraduate degree (or equivalent) at 2:1 or above in any discipline.
For students who enrol on one of our online programmes with the Hong Kong Terms and Conditions, you must attend our Hong Kong campus for your assessments.
Please note that non-local students can only undertake our full-time courses. Part-time study is not permitted due to Hong Kong Immigration Department regulations.
Dates and locations
Hong Kong:
20 September 2021 (Full-time and Part-time)
Online:
20 September 2021 (Full-time and Part-time)
Extended Non-means-tested Loan Scheme (ENLS)
The Extended Non-means-tested Loan Scheme (ENLS) offered by the HKSAR Government provides financial assistance in the form of loan(s) to eligible students to settle tuition fees of specific courses studied in Hong Kong, including our programme offered in Hong Kong. The ENLS operates on a full-cost recovery basis and a life-time loan limit is imposed on each student eligible for receiving loans under the ENLS. The life-time loan limit for 2019-20 is HK$372,700. As a reference, the ENLS interest rate as of 1 December 2019 was 1.106% per annum.
Further Information about the eligibility, application, loan limit, interest fee and other details can be found at the following website: www.wfsfaa.gov.hk/sfo/eng/schemes/nlss.htm. For further enquiries you can also contact ENLS enquiry hotline direct on (852) 2150-6223
Online Taster Session
If you want to find out what it’s like to study an online course with us, why not try our free online taster session?
Our taster sessions can be completed at your own pace and include short, structured exercises to help you experience what it will really be like to study online with us. All you need to do is visit our online learning platform (Blackboard ELITE) and, if you've already applied to study with us and received login details for ELITE, click 'sign in' on Blackboard ELITE. Alternatively, click 'sign up' and complete the short registration form.
Campus Award and Early Bird Discount
Hong Kong Campus Award
Overview
We are offering a 10% fee reduction in course fees to all students studying our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Hong Kong in 2023-2024.
What are the eligibility criteria?
You need to have accepted a place on one of our Hong Kong face-to-face or Hong Kong online courses for intakes from August 2023 to July 2024.
Terms and conditions apply - For intakes from August 2023 to July 2024
Hong Kong Early Bird Discount
Overview
We are offering a 5% fee reduction in course fees to all students studying our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Hong Kong in 2023-2024.
What are the eligibility criteria?
You need to have accepted your place on one of our Hong Kong face-to-face or Hong Kong online courses for intakes from July 2023 to March 2024, before the dates listed below.
What are the acceptance deadlines?
- For courses starting in July 2023 - 1 June 2023
- For courses starting from September 2023 to December 2023 - 1 August 2023
- For courses starting from January 2024 to March 2024 - 1 December 2023
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Any questions?
For Hong Kong online and UK programmes enquiries, please contact:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +852 2319 4110
For Hong Kong on-campus programmes enquiries, please contact:
The Hong Kong Management Association
Website: https://www.hkma.org.hk/ulaw/
Important notice
Please note that students who apply, accept a place on and enrol on University of Law programmes that are registered in Hong Kong will be subject to different Terms and Conditions and pay different course Fees compared to students who apply, accept a place on and enrol on University of Law programmes that are registered in the United Kingdom and other online programmes. The Terms and Conditions and Fee Schedule that you accept when applying for your course (and which you are subsequently sent with your confirmation email) will be the Terms and Conditions and Fee Schedule for your particular course. Payment must be made in accordance with this Fee Schedule.
These courses are registered with the Hong Kong Non-local Courses Registry (NCR). It is a matter of discretion for individual employers to recognise any qualification to which these courses may lead.
Please note that non-local students can only undertake our full-time courses. Part-time study is not permitted due to Hong Kong Immigration Department regulations.
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