Canada

Undergraduate

Most of our Undergraduate Bachelor degree courses will consider 75% from Canadian Secondary School Certificate/Diploma or DEC.

Our LLB Law (Senior Status) will consider GPA 2.9 or equivalent from Bachelor degree.

We also offer a range of Foundation Programmes which can lead to entry to our undergraduate degrees, please visit University of Essex International College for further information.

Some courses have higher entry requirements as well as other admissions criteria. Please see individual courses for more information or email our admissions team admit@essex.ac.uk.

Postgraduate Taught

The majority of our Postgraduate Taught Masters will consider applicants with a B average or GPA 2.7/4 or equivalent from a Canadian Bachelor degree.

Some courses have higher entry requirements as well as other admissions criteria. Please see individual courses for more information or email our admissions team at pgadmit@essex.ac.uk.

We also have a range of Foundation Programmes available through our partner Kaplan International Colleges if you do not meet these grades. Please visit University of Essex International College for further information.

Postgraduate Research 

For entry to Research degrees, please refer to the entry requirements for the degree that you are interested in. 

An undergraduate degree equivalent to a UK 2:2 (see the grade information above), and a master's degree with a good grade is required for most PhD programmes, in addition to a well-developed research proposal in a field in which we can offer supervision. Please have a read through our information for research degree applicants and check the course details for your chosen programme for further information about entry criteria.

Our Academic Excellence Senior Status Law Scholarship scheme offers scholarships worth £3,000 to international students joining the LLB Law (Senior Status) programme. Deadlines and terms and conditions apply.

Our Academic Excellence International Masters Scholarship scheme offers a £3,000 tuition fee discount to masters students from Canada achieving the equivalent of a UK first in their undergraduate degree. Please visit the link for further details about eligibility.

LLB Law (Senior Status)

This two-year fast-track course was designed for students who have graduated from another discipline and want to pursue a career in law. For further information about the course contents, please visit the course page.

LLB Law 

We also offer the three-year LLB Law option which allows students to take additional optional modules, or specialise in a specific field by combining your law degree with another subject. The following programmes are available:

• LLB Law
• LLB Law with Finance
• LLB Law with Politics
• LLB Law with Business
• LLB Law with Philosophy
• LLB Law with Criminology
• LLB Law with Human Rights

LLB English and French Law (Licence)

For students fluent in both English and French, our  LLB English and French Law (Licence) 'double degree' combines two years at Essex with a final year at one of our partner universities in France.

Masters degrees

We also offer a range of one-year Masters degrees in the areas of Law and Human Rights.

If you plan on heading back to Canada to work after gaining your degree in the UK, you'll need to demonstrate competence to the National Committee on Accreditation (NCA), who assess the qualifications of anyone with legal qualifications obtained outside of Canada, and who wish to be admitted to a common law bar in Canada.

If you graduate from your LLB Law (Senior Status) with a 2:2 (50%) or above, without any of your modules graded below 50% (roughly a C average in a Canadian university), you'll normally have to take seven extra exams. Then, once you've successfully completed the NCA requirements, you'll be awarded a Certificate of Qualification, accepted by most Canadian law societies for entry to their bar admissions process. Please note that this information is only provided as a guideline, for further information please contact the NCA:

• NCA website (external link)

If you're looking to study law, we have a Canadian Law society to help you connect with other students and organisations at Essex, in the UK and back in Canada.