Hello everyone!
I come from Greece. I am graduate student of Political Science and I'm thinking of applying for a LLM in Maritime Law for September 2012. The reason I'm writing here is I would like to give some suggestions about which school to apply for. Until now, I have as option Swansea University and Southampton.
What are your opinions/suggestions for these and other Universities? and what about the career opportunities??
Thanks for your help

hey! im from greece too but since we are in an english message board,i ll avoid using greek language..i will also apply to these universities for maritime law. if u want any information, tell me. i have friends already studying in southampton maritime law, i could inform u about this university.

hey!thanks for the reply!
Can you tell me their impressions? Teaching, career opportunities etc. Have they start search for job?

Bill which are your options in regards to universities?

about southampton , the feedback i get isnt very positive for this year..for swansea, students in posts are more positive..as regards reputation, southampton is better, but ...check ur mail, and if u want, contact me

Yasu

I amnot sure whether one can say anymore that the reputation of Southampton is better than Swansea- that was possibly the case 7-8 years ago but nowadays the sector employs more and more Swansea graduates, there is more visibility in terms of international links and links with practice and in terms of research excellence these two law schools scored almost the same rating- I did my LLM in Swansea by the way a number of years ago and what I hear is that the team has got stronger and stronger whilst in the same period Southampton lost key players like Professor Gasskell and ProfessorDebatista and some of the professors on their web-site never teach or teach minimal number of classes! Let us not get stuck to history or what you hear from guys who did their LLMs 20 years ago.

Yasu

I amnot sure whether one can say anymore that the reputation of Southampton is better than Swansea- that was possibly the case 7-8 years ago but nowadays the sector employs more and more Swansea graduates, there is more visibility in terms of international links and links with practice and in terms of research excellence these two law schools scored almost the same rating- I did my LLM in Swansea by the way a number of years ago and what I hear is that the team has got stronger and stronger whilst in the same period Southampton lost key players like Professor Gasskell and ProfessorDebatista and some of the professors on their web-site never teach or teach minimal number of classes! Let us not get stuck to history or what you hear from guys who did their LLMs 20 years ago.

Bill and Kosta, the British Council had a seminar for the applications in universities of UK last week. I went to the careers office toget some guidance about these 2 universities. Her opinion was that Southampton is the best choice because of reputation. I am very confused...

my guess is that you talked to someone at the Career Office who has not kept herself updated what is happening in the last 10 years. As Bill says "Pireus says Swansea' I tell you that the rest of the world mainly UK says "Swansea'- it is up to you really. My advice is that you go along with what the practitioners and market think not what an office person says !
All the best
Kosta

Hello hello!
I think there gonna be lots of Greeks to Swansea this autumn..
I was between Southampton and Swansea and to be honest I haven't decided yet. Have you??? :)