University of Bradford • Bradford
The human-rights LLM with a solicitors-practice strand — purpose-driven law at one of England’s lowest fee bands.
Our take
Bradford holds the values corner of our LLM list: international human-rights law and development, paired — unusually — with a solicitors-practice strand that keeps the degree anchored to employable legal skills. The combination serves a specific lawyer: one heading for NGOs, international organisations, immigration and asylum practice, or home-market rights work, who still wants the practice-skills grounding that pure human-rights degrees skip. Bradford’s peace-studies and development heritage gives the subject institutional depth, and the £15,700–£19,500 band prices conscience-driven study at the affordable end. The usual honesty: no LLM confers practice rights; the SQE route runs separately, and the practice strand here maps toward it.
| Duration | 1 year full-time |
| Intake | January & September |
| Accreditation | University of Bradford — School of Law |
| Tuition | Within Bradford’s 2026/27 international postgraduate band of £15,700–£19,500 — among England’s lowest. Exact fee in your offer; £5,000 deposit deducted. |
Where this leads: An academic law degree with a solicitors-practice strand — no practice rights conferred. England-and-Wales qualification runs through the SQE exams plus qualifying work experience.
Both intakes run across the law portfolio.
Why Bradford
Human-rights doctrine and development law alongside solicitors-practice skills — employability that mission-only LLMs lack.
Bradford’s long-standing peace-studies and development tradition surrounds the law school with genuine subject expertise.
A band from £15,700 in England’s low-cost county — rights-focused study without rights-sector debt.
Bradford’s refugee-resettlement and community-rights landscape puts the syllabus’s questions on local ground.
What you study
Entry requirements
English language
Bradford expects a formal English test from most international applicants. Bradford does not publish a Medium of Instruction (MOI) letter route, so plan for a formal test. It does, however, accept strong school-level English for some markets: typically 70% in English within CBSE/CISCE Class XII for India, and WAEC/SSCE English Language at C6 or better for Nigeria. Pakistani applicants are usually asked for IELTS or an accepted alternative.
Also accepted: PTE Academic 62 (59 in each part), Duolingo English Test 110 (100 in each subscore), TOEFL iBT 80, Oxford ELLT 6 (5 in each sub-test), BASALT — Bradford’s own English test, 6.0 (5.5 in each sub-test). Pre-sessional English is available if you fall short.
Careers
Your country
Bradford publishes clear equivalencies for Pakistani qualifications: HSSC/Intermediate at 60% is treated as roughly 96–119 UCAS points, 65% as 120–135 and 70% as 136+, while for Master’s entry a CGPA of 2.5/4.0 is read as a UK 2:2 and 3.0 as a 2:1. Bachelor degrees of three years or less usually need two years of relevant work experience on top. Budget carefully for the deposit — applicants from Pakistan currently pay £10,000 (not the standard £5,000) before a CAS is issued. On the plus side, the Bestway Foundation funds five full Master’s scholarships worth around £35,000 each for Pakistan-domiciled STEM students, and the city’s long-established Pakistani community makes settling in unusually easy.
Full guide for PakistanClass XII (CBSE, CISCE and most state boards) at around 70–80% maps to roughly 96–136+ UCAS points for undergraduate entry, and a bachelor’s at 60% is typically read as a UK 2:2, with 65–70% needed for a 2:1 or first. Usefully, Bradford accepts 70% in English within CBSE/CISCE Class XII in place of IELTS. Two things to note: applicants to MSc International Business Management from Punjab and Haryana are currently asked to pay the full tuition fee in advance, and India’s CAS and deposit deadline for September 2026 is 21 August.
Full guide for IndiaWAEC/SSCE alone does not qualify for direct undergraduate entry — students typically join via the International Foundation Year at the University of Bradford International College. For Master’s, an honours degree assessed as a UK 2:2 or above is expected. Bradford accepts C6 or better in WAEC/SSCE English Language (and the NABTEB equivalent) instead of IELTS, which saves both money and time. The university also has an in-country representative and a wide agent network across Lagos, Abuja and other cities.
Full guide for NigeriaHolders of the UAE General Secondary Education Certificate usually need a foundation programme before starting a bachelor’s degree, while postgraduate applicants are assessed on the standard GPA scale (2.5/4.0 for a 2:2, 3.0 for a 2:1). Bradford runs a Regional Hub at Dubai Knowledge Park — home of its Executive MBA in Dubai — so you can get face-to-face advice without leaving the Emirates. UAE nationals currently sit in the £2,000 tier of the Global Scholar Award.
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FAQ
Lawyers whose careers point at NGOs, international organisations, immigration and asylum work, or rights litigation at home — and who want practice skills alongside the mission. The solicitors-practice strand is the differentiator from purely academic human-rights degrees.
Yes, with honest caveats: NGO and UN-system roles are competitive and often programme-based; UK immigration and asylum practice is a genuine hiring area; home-market rights work varies by jurisdiction. The practice strand hedges the mission with employable skills — deliberately.
Fees from £15,700 in the 2026/27 band — among England’s lowest for any LLM — plus Bradford’s living costs among the country’s cheapest. Conviction rarely comes this affordable.
No — it builds practice skills that map toward the SQE route, but qualification still requires the SQE exams and qualifying work experience. We sequence that plan for clients pursuing UK practice.
Fees, entry requirements, English-language policies and intake dates are correct to the best of our knowledge at the date shown, but universities review them every cycle and immigration rules change. Always treat figures as a guide — we confirm the exact, current requirements with the university before you apply. Facts on this page last checked July 2026.
Intakes shown are for this course specifically; Bradford runs other intakes for other programmes — see the full Bradford profile.
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