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BBLS vs BCL

joxer05

Hi im a leaving cert student and im not sure whether to pick law or business and legal studies in ucd. can anyone help???

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Sangre

Just going on what an ex told me who did it.

I will say one thing about BnL. The girls are a LOT hotter

Ron DMC

Ah now, Sangre. Don't dismiss Trinity just like that. Law here is actually a fantastic course. I've never heard of any complaints.
Plus, It's full of girls.

Sangre

Oh God DONT do law in Trinity. That would be the worst idea EVER.

Bottom line is do you want to do law, business or a bit of both?
Tbh I'd rather cut myself and embrace the sweet red death then do any business course.

Oh and if you to go away for a year to say Europe or further afield do law not BnL.

TheVan

Well......you could do law and come out just knowing the law or....

you could do B+L and come out knowing the law and the business world!
Considering the amount of corporate law going on these days B+L is the way to go!

Also I worked in one of the big law firms over the summer and they seemed to be taking B+L students before law students from any college!

Therefore.....choose B+L! QED

hullaballoo

A law degree in UCD isn't really an option unless you want to be second rate. If you can get the points for Trinity, do law there by all means. However, there's no reason to do law in UCD unless you can't muster up the points for Trinity.

B&L is a different ball-game really. It's effectively two degrees in one. I'm not sure what research Kaptain Redeye did but B&L is a four-year degree. We do all of the same subjects as Commerce and Law and we have the same options (limited to timetabling as always).

Insofar as employment is concerned. That's an issue you can work out for yourself from first principles. If you are hiring someone to work in the field of business and you have two candidates going for the same job, each of whom has a degree from UCD. One has a pure Commerce degree, and the other has done all of the same subjects, plus a law degree and commit an extra year to study in so doing, who would you hire? You can use the same logic to decide whether a solicitor will hire a B&L grad or a BCL grad.

Most companies worth their salt are aware of BBLS and start headhunting fairly early on from the course.

There's one caveat; it doesn't matter which course you pick, if you don't put in the work from early on, you're in the same boat as all the other 2:1 grads.

Chinafoot

Some more opinions here

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054875927

Stabshauptmann

I wanted to do law when filling out my CAO, and Commerce was my second choice.

Though I definitly knew Id have the points for BBLS (barely missed law as it was) I put BCOMM on the CAO for second choice and didnt put BBLS down at all.

Why? Because I was told a BBLS degree would have little standing in employers eyes. I know a lot of 3rd yr BBLS students as they are doing all the courses in 2nd Commerce (because thats the route they choose), I dont know how many courses the BBLS students who choose law share with the pure law course. I dont know what second yr BBLS is like or if there is a 4th, but first year they do less than half of the commerce course.

What I know is what I was told, do commerce or law, dont do a B&L degree.

Farcear

...in favour of B&L!

Sangre

Prepare to get some objective, unbiased answers!