How would you rate QMUL for LLM in Commercial & Corporate Law? How would you compare it to Durham's International Trade and Commercial Law?

Just tell me QMUL OR DURHAM with reasons please

This is not a post for people to just look at. Guyies reply with some answer if you know even something.

So you are also planning to go to Durham this year?

Personally i would choose Durham. It's LLM degree focuses specifically on Commercial Law and has many more specialists in that field. Cost of living is cheaper too. Also city firms love Durham - you will find that many of the partners studied there.

That is quite surprising - most British students like myself would normally put UCL ahead of Durham. I suspect your Professor is probably a big fan of Bill Bryson!! :-)

I am rather surprised also - and a little worried - that your Professor has never heard of UCL! Just speaking personally I would rank UCL ahead of Durham for most subjects. But obviously Durham is still a good university.

Couldn´t agree more than you Homer.

Even a Professor of mine from Boston University recommended Durham!!!!

He never heard about UCL lol

I don't care which university this Professor has graduated from! :-) What does he know about universities in the UK? You can go and ask any recruiter for law firms IN THE UK and the vast majority will agree that UCL has the better law school - at the very least the rankings bare this out. Especially for a subject like commercial law - UCL can condense its own specialist areas into Banking Law for example - Durham simply cannot compete with it. Durham is good but I am afraid if you ask most lawyers in the UK they would agree that UCL is a better university. And this is the view that the majority of the Common Law world would take.

By the way I have worked as a law lecturer in the United Kingdom for three years. I have acted as a mock interview co-ordinator for students and I know what law firms in the City of London are looking for.

At least I have given you my reasons for saying UCL is better - I think you ought to ask your Professor what he bases his judgement on? Has he any experience of law in the UK - teaching or otherwise? I rather doubt it because he wouldn't have told you what he has.

I think your Professor is more impressed by the architecture - the cathedral - and the convivial surroundings or is a big fan of Bill Bryson! :-)

Finally, I was BORN and live 10 miles away from Durham and I know about the university - my mother was a student there! :-) She loved it! :-) I have visited the campus and attended guest lectures more times than I care to remember. But I would still choose UCL for Commercial Law.

Listen when I mention UCL he did not know what it stand for!!

When I told him, he still said... your best bet is Durham. This guy teaches in Boston University and is a Harvard graduate!!!

UCL is good as well.

He knows what he knows.

He does not have to know anything about UK programs. I am not saying one is better that the other. I am saying that he knows Durham!!!!

He lived in the UK and worked in energy law for British Petroleum, so he lived in north London for a while. I am not saying UCL is not good.!! He just knows one and not the other.

I don't deny that the faculty in one is very impressive and the other less impressive. Of course the teaching is going to be good as most of the lecturers are partners or judges or whatever it is that you are referring.

I don't know his judgment basis is on, and to be honest I don't care. I guess its just name wise. The question is not what firms are looking for. The firms look for a whole package and you know that.

But UCL is a very good choice, I applied there as well!! so don't get all nervous about it :P

I have to say that I still find your Professor's advice rather strange. If he worked for BP and lived in North London I find it incredulous that he has such a high opinion of Durham and yet according to your earlier post "he didn't know what UCL stood for." And yet he lived in London?! I find that rather strange.

All I would say is take this Professor's advice with caution.

And I am sorry to disagree with you. You may not think that there is a big difference between UCL and Durham - but I do. Based on my experience UCL is still a long way ahead of Durham in terms of national and international reputation.

He knows what he knows.

He does not have to know anything about UK programs. I am not saying one is better that the other. I am saying that he knows Durham!!!!

He lived in the UK and worked in energy law for British Petroleum, so he lived in north London for a while. I am not saying UCL is not good.!! He just knows one and not the other.

I don't deny that the faculty in one is very impressive and the other less impressive. Of course the teaching is going to be good as most of the lecturers are partners or judges or whatever it is that you are referring.

I don't know his judgment basis is on, and to be honest I don't care. I guess its just name wise. The question is not what firms are looking for. The firms look for a whole package and you know that.

But UCL is a very good choice, I applied there as well!! so don't get all nervous about it :P

Durham University should only be compared to the other two collegiate universities, i.e. Oxford and Cambridge. The others are all "wannabes"!!!

Only in coming and being part of the Durham tradition would you realise how POSH the university is! :-)

hi all... done my law graduation from mumbai. want to do LLM. ADVICE on few competitive universities. how abt UCL?