Three chapters, built from primary admissions data.
A small specialist Law School at the University of London. SOAS doesn't publish a public dashboard, we work from what's on the record.
SOAS is a small specialist institution and does not publish a public admissions dashboard for Law. Most of the per-cycle figures other universities post, applications, offers, offer-rate splits, are simply not on the public record for SOAS Law.[1] What we can pin down is the shape of the programme, the entry standard, and SOAS's distinctive selection philosophy.
SOAS's LLB offer sits at AAB, a step below the AAA/A*AA seen at Oxford, LSE, UCL and KCL. Contextual offers go lower for eligible applicants.[2]
SOAS uses the LNAT optional / required, required mainly for mature, contextual, international and non-traditional applicants. Standard A-level applicants are not asked to sit it.[3]
SOAS does not routinely interview for Law. Selection runs on the UCAS form, the personal statement and the academic profile, with the LNAT folded in only where it's been asked for.[4]
The honest version: SOAS publishes far less Law-specific admissions data than the bigger LNAT consortium schools. If you want hard funnel numbers, you'll be reading HESA aggregates or filing an FOI, there is no SOAS dashboard.
SOAS's Law portfolio is structured around a core LLB Law (M100) plus a distinctive set of joint honours degrees that pair Law with politics, anthropology, economics, development studies, and the languages and area studies SOAS is known for.
| Programme | UCAS code | Typical offer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| LLB Law | M100 | AAB | Qualifying law degree; SQE-aligned core modules. |
| LLB Senior Status (2-year) | [gap] | 2:1 | For applicants who already hold a degree. [DATA GAP: specific UCAS code unverified.] |
SOAS's joint Law degrees are its real signature, pairings that don't exist elsewhere in the UK Law landscape.
| Programme | Typical offer | Sister discipline |
|---|---|---|
| Law and Politics | AAB | Politics & International Studies |
| Law and Social Anthropology | AAB | Anthropology & Sociology |
| Law and Africa & Black Diaspora | AAB | Africa Section (Swahili, Amharic, Hausa, etc.) |
| Law and Global Development | AAB | Global Development |
| Law and Economics | AAB | Economics |
| Law and a Language (Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.) | AAB | Languages & Cultures sections |
[DATA GAP: the exact list of joint Law programmes is reshuffled most cycles. Treat this table as the working shape rather than the up-to-the-minute UCAS list, verify against the SOAS course-finder before applying.][2]
SOAS Law isn't a generalist Russell-Group law school. The curriculum and the personal-statement criteria both centre on international law, human rights, and critical / decolonial legal scholarship.
Public international law, international economic law, law of the sea, conflict and security: SOAS runs a deeper international offer than most LLB providers.
Human rights modules sit at the centre of the curriculum rather than as a final-year option, with a particular focus on the Global South.
SOAS Law openly engages with critical and decolonial legal scholarship: TWAIL, post-colonial legal theory, law-and-development critique. This is unusual at LLB level.
Bottom line: SOAS Law selects on a narrower kind of fit than the consortium schools. The AAB grade bar is achievable; the harder question is whether your statement and interests read as SOAS rather than a generic LLB application.
Every claim above ends in a [n] superscript that links here. SOAS's admissions footprint is thin, these are the live public sources for what we've said.
Institution-level applications and enrolment data for SOAS. Aggregates only, there is no Law-specific funnel on the HESA tables, and SOAS does not publish a programme-level dashboard of its own. [DATA GAP: Law-specific funnel.]
Source for the AAB typical offer and the list of single-honours and joint-honours Law programmes. The exact joint-degree list shifts cycle to cycle.
SOAS is not in the universal-LNAT consortium. SOAS's own Law admissions text describes the LNAT as required selectively, mainly for mature, contextual, international and non-traditional applicants.
SOAS's admissions philosophy and its Access & Participation Plan. Confirms that SOAS Law selects on the application, grades and (where required) LNAT, without a standard interview stage.
The other three SOAS Law pages, in order.