LLB (Hons) Law with Business with foundation year in Southampton United Kingdom | Southampton Solent University

Gain the essential skills, knowledge, and networks needed for a dynamic career in law or business. The business and law foundation year is designed to build your confidence, develop your capabilities and ensure you’re future-ready and ready for the competitive global marketplace.

And throughout the foundation and subsequent full Solent degree, you’ll do more than learn the theory – you’ll learn to apply it through an innovative range of assessment and ‘real-world’ live briefs. Our degrees offer the chance to engage and get hands-on experience of international business and legal challenges and contexts, as well as a variety of extra qualifications, exemptions and memberships in addition to your honour’s degree.

Solent University’s LLB delivered through the Solent Law School, places a strong emphasis on professional practice, covering the foundation subjects essential for aspiring solicitors or barristers.

This is combined with the Solent Business School's real-world learning curriculum and business expertise, to equip students with versatile skills that can be applied across a wide range of business roles and industry sectors.

Studying LLB Law with Business opens up diverse avenues for legal practice, providing not only specialised legal knowledge but also transferrable skills tailored for the corporate and business landscape.

Our recent ground-breaking partnership with the College of Legal Practice enables you to undertake modules in your final year that give you credit towards your degree qualification and also in preparing for the Solicitors Qualification Examination One (SQE1), giving you a real head start if you’re considering becoming a solicitor.

Real-world learning and professional networks at the heart of the course; The Solent Law School is a founding member of Southampton City Law Network and the Solent Business School holds the Small Business Charter with strong civic and business engagement collaborations across the city and UK.

These established connections allow us to offer a dynamic programme of events, workshops and guest lectures from a wide range of visiting professionals from various fields. Additionally, students benefit from work experience opportunities, that give you the chance to experience the legal and business professions and explore many exciting career paths.

You will have access to specialist facilities, too – from the University’s moot courtroom, which enables you to practice your legal skills in a realistic environment, to an extensive library of legal journals, case law and online materials.

Taught by experts within the Solent Law and Solent Business Schools, all who have strong links to the legal profession and business industry, the course gives you plenty of opportunities for practical experience and to develop your own professional network.

You'll will be encouraged to explore a wide-range of legal processes and the fast-changing business environment, in blend of theory and practice. This approach helps to develop habits of lifelong learning, to not only support your career aspirations but also, to nurture individuals into future leaders and global citizens.