91.1% employed within four months of graduating.
Graduate Outcomes Survey 2019-2021 - Undergraduate Business and Management
Degree overview
Make your start-up dreams a reality
Interested in turning your passion into a successful career? Maybe launching that start-up you’ve been dreaming of? This highly flexible combined degree is for you. Graduate with strong legal expertise that elevates your potential across a wide range of sectors – and balance it out with innovative and entrepreneurial business skills.
Learn to think globally – armed with the tools and networks to dream big and incite change. Given the extensive regulation that applies to businesses and corporations – and to innovative business environments in particular – a law degree is a highly valued asset within the business sector.
Top 200
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in the world for Law
World top 175
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for business and economics
Career opportunities
The multidisciplinary nature of your studies will open doors, freeing you up to pursue multiple areas of interest and diversifying your employment options.
Depending on your chosen areas of study, careers might include:
- Innovation Manager
- Start-up Founder
- Lawyer
- Entrepreneur
- Barrister
- Corporate Lawyer
$60,000 median starting salary.
Graduate Outcomes Survey 2020-2022
Course overview
Embed law, business, innovation and entrepreneurial knowledge into this combined degree program with practical experiences to give you a substantial edge when applying for jobs in both the public and private sectors.
Learn and develop skills by studying courses in various aspects of law including:
- Criminal law and procedure
- Evidence
- Equity and trusts
- Administrative law
- Property law
- Contract law
Student experience
Law on the Beach 1:50
Law on the Beach is a free legal advice clinic for members of the local community, held in the relaxed setting of Merewether Surf Club each January and February. Allowing our students to work on real-world cases alongside their studies with Newcastle Legal Centre lawyers, the clinics make seeking legal advice more approachable, particularly for young people.
Career-ready placements
You will complete the first 105 hours of your required supervised clinical legal experience under the supervision of solicitors from our School – either in the legal centre itself or as part of our “Law on the Beach” program. School staff also assist to arrange external placements to make up the remaining 180 professional training hours required to qualify to practise as a lawyer.
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Scholarships
Our scholarships recognise achievement and support enthusiastic and dedicated students. If you are a current student, or planning to study with us, we encourage you to apply for all scholarships you meet the criteria for.
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Accommodation
Living on campus is an experience unlike any other. Whether you're from across Australia or around the globe, your home on campus is where you'll form lifelong friendships and harness your potential in a supportive and diverse community.
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Student showcase
Law on the Beach 1:59
Law on the Beach is a free legal advice clinic for members of the local community, held in the relaxed setting of Merewether Surf Club each January and February. Allowing our students to work on real-world cases alongside their studies with Newcastle Legal Centre lawyers, the clinics make seeking legal advice more approachable, particularly for young people.
How to apply
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Our Bachelor of Laws and Diploma of Legal Practice are accredited by the Legal Profession Admission Board of New South Wales.
The Newcastle Business School is accredited with the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), earned by fewer than 5% of the world's business programs.
The EQUIS accreditation measures our performance against rigorous international standards which validates the high quality and professional relevance of our education programs and research.
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