Everything you need to know...
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What is the fee?
Home: £9,535 per year
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How long will I study?
4/5 Years
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Where will I study?
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What are the entry requirements?
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What is the UCAS code?
A099
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When do I start?
September 2025
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Placement year available?
Yes
Where will I study?
Course summary
- Gain interdisciplinary expertise in law and criminology.
- Explore criminal justice and behaviour and the effect of law on society.
- Work with law firms and legal and social-justice providers.
- Consider the global reach of law, with opportunities for UK and international placements.
On this course, you'll combine your legal studies with criminology and gain an in-depth knowledge of criminal justice and law in theory and practice. You’ll gain experience in Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice Hubs, on-campus legal service providers, and with external organisations. While developing excellent knowledge and skills, you’ll shape your degree around your interests, values and aspirations – preparing you for graduate careers in and beyond the justice sector.
If you don't meet the entry requirements for this course, or you’d like extra preparation before starting degree-level study, we recommend you join the foundation year.
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Student View
Law and Criminology student Fozia Sultana won an Inspirational Student Award for her work on Manifest Diversity, a staff and student collaborative which is helping to make law more diverse, inclusive and accessible.
How you learn
Our award-winning tutors are experts in their fields. You’ll be taught by a range of lecturers who are experienced legal researchers, and who have years of experience in the legal profession as solicitors or barristers.
You’ll collaborate with legal professionals and rights and justice practitioners to challenge law and its application, engaging with projects and initiatives which are making a difference in Sheffield, the UK and globally.
You learn through:
- Lectures
- Interactive workshops
- Independent research
- Case studies in simulated environments
- Live client projects
- Work placements
Key Themes
On our LLB Law with Criminology course, you’ll also have opportunities to develop your understanding of crime and criminal justice in theory and practice. You’ll work criminal appeals and prison law, and the role played by rights and justice charities working across the criminal justice sector.
At every level of your course, you’ll have the opportunity to learn the law and the personal and practical skills required to apply the law to a variety of simulated and real-life cases.
Course Support
You’ll be supported in your learning journey towards highly skilled graduate employment in a number of ways. These include:
- Support throughout your studies from your own dedicated academic adviser committed to your personal and professional development.
- Access to our Skills Centre with one to ones, workshops and online resources
- Employability opportunities such as project work, networking and field trips – and expert advice and guidance from our careers and employability team.
Our student and staff-led steering group, Manifest Diversity, ensures the promotion of minority student voices. Through it, you’ll be able to attend events such as UK Black Business Week and take on projects to improve inclusion within our course and University offer.
Applied learning
Your course has been designed to embrace real-world challenges and provide you with the practical skills and knowledge to be successful within your chosen sector.
Work Placements
You’ll have the opportunity to arrange a year-long work placement in between your second and third years. This gives you valuable work experience to prepare you for your future career – and allows you to graduate with an Applied Professional Diploma to add to your CV.
As part of your course you’ll have opportunities to undertake a range of placements with our legal and social-justice service providers. These include major national and international law firms – such as Irwin Mitchell and DLA Piper – and international legal practitioners such as attorneys’ firms, public defenders and miscarriage of justice projects in the USA.
You’ll also have the opportunity to complete in-house placements in justice hubs, prison clinics and criminal appeal clinics.
Live Projects
Throughout the course you’ll gain vital industry experience working alongside lawyers on real projects. The course is designed to develop your practical legal skills to support and prepare you to participate in work with legal service providers and their clients.
Social Justice
The department is committed to advocating for those who don’t have or can’t afford representation. You can get involved in a range of legal advice initiatives supporting access to justice including local court helpdesks, our Refugee Rights Hub and our Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice.
LLB Law students have assisted with reuniting the families of refugees, worked with the miscarriage of justice organisation 'Appeal', and attended small claims hearings to provide legal advice and representation to self-represented litigants.
Networking Opportunities
As the course offers a wide range of extra-curricular activities, you can develop invaluable employability knowledge and skills throughout your degree.
There are regular opportunities to develop connections with professionals both within and outside of the legal sector – through trips and visits, our annual Law Careers Fair, careers talks, panel events, conferences, mentoring schemes and networking sessions. These often involve our fantastic and educated alumni community.
Future careers
This course prepares you for careers in:
- Legal profession (such as solicitor or barrister)
- Business and entrepreneurialism
- Human resources
- Financial services
- Teaching
- Higher education
- Public sector
- Regulatory services
- Law enforcement and probation
Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work for:
- Crown Prosecution Service
- The Probation Service
- DLA Piper
- Environment Agency
- Lincoln House Chambers
- NatWest
- Slaughter & May
- South Yorkshire Police
- Aquinas College
- Begbies Traynor
- CMS
Where will I study?
You study at City Campus through a structured mix of lectures, seminars and practical sessions as well as access to digital and online resources to support your learning.
City Campus
City Campus is located in the heart of Sheffield, within minutes of the train and bus stations.
City Campus map | City Campus tour
Adsetts library
Adsetts Library is located on our City Campus. It's open 24 hours a day, every day.
Learn moreLearn more about your department
Take a tour around the School of Law facilities with student Ellie.
Equipment and facilities
On this course you work with:
- Library services and study spaces
- Our on-campus legal and social justice service providers
- Moot court and other collaborative learning spaces
- Digital access to the latest legal material, commentary and analysis through our subscriptions to practitioners' databases
- Specialist software to manage client case-work
We’ve invested over £100m in new facilities to help you study how and when you want. This means 24-hour libraries and study spaces designed by our students.
360 tour - Moot Court
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Students in the Hallam Legal Advice Centre and Justice Hubs
Entry requirements
All students
UCAS points
- 64
This must include at least 32 points from one A level or equivalent BTEC National qualifications. For example:
- CC at A Level
- MPP in BTEC Extended Diploma.
- A combination of qualifications, which may include AS levels, EPQ and general studies.
You can find information on making sense of UCAS tariff points here and use the UCAS tariff calculator to work out your points.
GCSE
- English Language or English Literature at grade C or 4
- Maths at grade C or 4
ACCESS
- Access to HE Diploma, with at least 45 level 3 credits.
If English is not your first language, you will need an IELTS score of 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in all skills, or equivalent. If your English language skill is currently below IELTS 6.0 we recommend you consider a Sheffield Hallam University Pre-sessional English course which will enable you to achieve an equivalent English score.
Additional information for EU/International students
If you are an International or non-UK European student, you can find out more about the country specific qualifications we accept on our international qualifications page.
For details of English language entry requirements (IELTS), please see the information for 'All students'.
Modules
Important notice: The structure of this course is periodically reviewed and enhanced to provide the best possible learning experience for our students and ensure ongoing compliance with any professional, statutory and regulatory body standards. Module structure, content, delivery and assessment may change, but we expect the focus of the course and the learning outcomes to remain as described above. Following any changes, updated module information will be published on this page.
You will be able to complete a placement year as part of this course. See the modules table below for further information.
Year 1
Compulsory modules
The Exploration Of Law, Crime, Justice And Society
Elective modules
Social Justice In Action
The Practice Of Law And Policing
Year 2
Compulsory modules
Applied Crime, Rights And Justice
Criminal Law
Introduction To Law & Legal Practice
Principles Of Contract Law
Year 3
Compulsory modules
Land Law
Legal Environments And Professional Skills
The Law Of Trusts
Tort Law
Elective modules
Study Abroad - Institute Of Law And Justice
Year 4
Optional modules
Placement Year
Final year
Compulsory modules
Professional Practice Experience
Elective modules
Commercial Law
Company Law
Criminal Justice Theories And Realities
Employment Law
Extended Professional Practice
Family Law
Immigration Law
Intellectual Property Law
International Criminal Law And Justice
International Human Rights
Law And Medicine
Law Of Evidence
Public Interest Law And Judicial Review
Public International Law
Sports Law
Fees and funding
Home students
Our tuition fee for UK students on full-time undergraduate degree courses in 2025/26 is £9,535 per year (capped at a maximum of 20% of this during your placement year). These fees are regulated by the UK government and therefore subject to change in future years. We are currently reviewing our tuition fees for the foundation year stage of this course following the Government announcement of fee changes for some foundation year courses and will confirm fees as soon as possible.
If you are studying an undergraduate course, postgraduate pre-registration course or postgraduate research course over more than one academic year then your tuition fees may increase in subsequent years in line with Government regulations or UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) published fees. More information can be found in our terms and conditions under student fees regulations.
International students
Our tuition fee for International/EU students starting full-time study in 2025/26 is £17,155 per year. During your placement year you will pay a reduced fee of £1,200.
Financial support for home/EU students
How tuition fees work, student loans and other financial support available.
Additional course costs
The links below allow you to view estimated general course additional costs, as well as costs associated with key activities on specific courses. These are estimates and are intended only as an indication of potential additional expenses. Actual costs can vary greatly depending on the choices you make during your course.
General course additional costs
Additional costs for Sheffield Institute of Law and Justice (PDF, 141.3KB)Legal information
Any offer of a place to study is subject to your acceptance of the University’s Terms and Conditions and Student Regulations.
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