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Three chapters, built from primary admissions data.
About one LLB Law applicant in seven receives an offer from UCL. Using UCL’s own table and its replies to Freedom of Information requests, this chapter shows you how many people apply, how that has changed since 2013, and how the five Law degrees differ.
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Try Jurica for freeIn the 2025 UCAS cycle (for entry in 2025), UCL’s Faculty of Laws received 4,552 applications for its undergraduate Law degrees and made 637 offers, an offer rate of 14.0%.[1] UCL lists 200 places for the Faculty, which works out at 22.8 applications for each place. These are the newest admissions figures UCL has published.
Note that UCL’s table counts the whole Faculty, with all five Law degrees together. Most applicants apply for the three-year LLB Law degree (UCAS code M100), and for that degree alone a Freedom of Information (FOI) reply of January 2026 gives 3,948 applicants and 578 offer holders for 2025 entry (an offer rate of 14.6%), and 200 students enrolling.[2] The table does not say what it counts as a place, and its 200 places for the whole Faculty equal the FOI reply’s 200 students on M100 alone, so the two figures may not measure the same thing.
UCL is one of the nine UK universities that use the LNAT,[3] and every applicant to its undergraduate Law degrees must sit it.[4] There are two things that make UCL different from Oxford and Cambridge. First, there is no interview for LLB Law, so the offer is decided on your written application: your grades, your LNAT result, your personal statement and your reference.[5] Second, UCL marks the LNAT essay itself and says that it “carries considerable weight” in its decisions.[4] We cover both points in the LNAT chapter.
A note on years before we go further. UCL labels its admissions cycles by academic year, so the 2024/25 cycle is the one for entry in September 2025. In this guide we give the year of entry wherever we can, and UCL’s own label where the source uses it.
It has. For 2013 to 2019 entry, UCL made offers to about one LLB Law applicant in five every year. Since then applications have grown much faster than offers, and the offer rate was between 7.5% and 14.6% for 2023 to 2025 entry.[6][7][2]
UCL has released these figures in several FOI replies, which we have put together in one table. Click a column heading to sort it.[6][8][7][9][2]
| Year of entry | Applications | Offers | Offer rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2,261 | 463 | 20.5% |
| 2014 | 2,488 | 527 | 21.2% |
| 2015 | 2,422 | 491 | 20.3% |
| 2016 | 2,536 | 497 | 19.6% |
| 2017 | 2,627 | 551 | 21.0% |
| 2018 | 2,659 | 536 | 20.2% |
| 2019 | 3,108 | 599 | 19.3% |
| 2020 | 3,178 | 809 | 25.5% |
| 2021 | 3,565 | 580 | 16.3% |
| 2022 | 3,965 | 465 | 11.7% |
| 2023 | 4,363 | 329 | 7.5% |
| 2024 | 4,031 | 539 | 13.4% |
| 2025 | 3,948 | 578 | 14.6% |
There are four things to notice here:
In other words, the offer rate for 2025 entry (14.6%) was about seven-tenths of the rate ten years earlier (20.3% for 2015 entry). Having said that, the last two cycles have been better than 2023, when fewer than one applicant in thirteen received an offer.
UCL has given two different counts for 2018 to 2020. The table uses the exact figures from UCL’s replies of November 2018 and July 2021, which put the 2018 offer rate at 20.2%.[8][7] A spreadsheet UCL released in May 2023, rounded to the nearest five, gives 1,725 applications and 630 offers for 2018 (which would be an offer rate of 37%), 2,885 and 710 for 2019, and 3,055 and 790 for 2020.[9] We use the exact figures because UCL gave them twice and they continue the 20% to 21% of 2013 to 2017. The same spreadsheet is our only source for 2021 and 2022, so those two rows are rounded.
Note also that the reply of January 2026 labels its years 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25 without defining them. We read them as the cycles for 2023, 2024 and 2025 entry, which is how UCL’s other replies use the same labels.[2][10]
Not much, on the published figures. In the three latest cycles, applicants from outside the UK made up about two-fifths of LLB Law applicants (39% to 43%), and they received offers at a higher rate than UK applicants: 16.6% against 13.2% for 2025 entry.[2]
| Year of entry | UK applicants | UK offers | UK offer rate | Non-UK applicants | Non-UK offers | Non-UK offer rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1,145 | 244 | 21.3% | 1,482 | 306 | 20.6% |
| 2018 | 1,150 | 241 | 21.0% | 1,509 | 295 | 19.5% |
| 2019 | 1,520 | 310 | 20.4% | 1,588 | 289 | 18.2% |
| 2020 | 1,580 | 400 | 25.3% | 1,598 | 409 | 25.6% |
| 2023 | 2,669 | 189 | 7.1% | 1,694 | 140 | 8.3% |
| 2024 | 2,458 | 267 | 10.9% | 1,573 | 272 | 17.3% |
| 2025 | 2,272 | 300 | 13.2% | 1,676 | 278 | 16.6% |
As you can see, the pattern has changed. For 2017 to 2020 entry, applicants domiciled outside the UK were half or more of the field, and their offer rate was within about two points of the UK rate each year.[7] (UCL gave totals and non-UK figures for those years, so the UK rows are our subtraction.) For 2023 to 2025 entry the non-UK share of applicants fell to between 39% and 43%, and the non-UK offer rate was the higher of the two in each cycle, by 1.2 points for 2023 entry, 6.4 points for 2024 and 3.4 points for 2025.[2] UCL publishes the rates themselves as 7%, 11% and 13% for UK applicants and 8%, 17% and 17% for non-UK applicants.
Non-UK students also make up a large share of those who enrol: 53 of 152 for 2023 entry (35%), 97 of 208 for 2024 (47%) and 89 of 200 for 2025 (45%).[2] No year matches the previous one, which suggests that UCL does not keep a fixed number of places for either group.
If you are applying from outside the UK. UCL says that the application process for international students is exactly the same as for UK students: you apply through UCAS by the same deadline,[11] and you sit the LNAT like everyone else. None of UCL’s FOI replies mentions a quota or a separate pool of international places, and in the three latest cycles your chance of an offer, on these figures, was at least as good as a UK applicant’s. Note that the replies count applicants by where they live (their domicile), which is not quite the same as their fee status.
UCL takes UCAS applications for five undergraduate Law degrees. The three-year LLB Law (M100) is by far the largest. The other four take four years: three include a year of legal study in France, Germany or Spain (M141, M142 and M144), and the fifth is a dual LLB with the University of Hong Kong (M103).[12][13]
Three years, with no year abroad. The standard offer is A*AA, every applicant sits the LNAT, and there is no interview.[14][5] It is UCL’s main Law degree: in the 2023/24 cycle (for 2024 entry) it drew 4,148 of the 4,699 applications to UCL’s LLB degrees, and UCL made 544 offers.[10]
Four years, with the third spent at Paris II Panthéon-Assas, at Cologne or Munich, or at Carlos III in Madrid.[13] The offer is A*AA including French, German or Spanish, and UCL asks for complete fluency, which it tests in an online interview if you are being considered for an offer.[15][4] For 2027 entry UCL calls these degrees “with Study Abroad” and keeps the same codes.[12] For 2024 entry, French Law had 194 applications and 38 offers, German Law 51 and 17, and Hispanic Law 84 and 9.[10]
Four years, two at UCL and two at the University of Hong Kong, with a Bachelor of Laws from each. You must send an additional statement of up to 500 words on why you are applying, and you may apply to UCL or to HKU for this degree, but not to both in the same cycle.[16] For 2024 entry it had 211 applications and 9 offers.[10]
Law with Another Legal System (with a year in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong or Sweden) is open only to LLB Law students, who apply to transfer in their second year.[17] The dual LLB and Juris Doctor with Columbia University also takes transfers from LLB Law, at most three students a year.[18] If either interests you, apply for LLB Law.
| Degree | Applications | Offers | Offer rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law (M100) | 4,148 | 544 | 13.1% |
| Law with French Law (M141) | 194 | 38 | 19.6% |
| Law with German Law (M142) | 51 | 17 | 33.3% |
| Law with Hispanic Law (M144) | 84 | 9 | 10.7% |
| LLB (UCL) and LLB (HKU) (M103) | 211 | 9 | 4.3% |
| LLB English and German Law | 11 | fewer than 5 | n/a |
There are three things to notice here:[10]
Note that you may apply for more than one UCL Law degree, but UCL will make you an offer for only one of them. It says it will bear your preference in mind when it decides which.[5]
UCL publishes less about Law admissions than Oxford or Cambridge, whose Law faculties or admissions offices publish annual statistics. Most of the figures in this guide therefore come from UCL’s replies to Freedom of Information requests, which anyone can read on WhatDoTheyKnow.[20]
In general, the figures come from three places:
UCL’s own admissions dashboards are for staff only. They sit on UCL’s Tableau site, which needs a UCL username and password, and the public page that used to list them was retired between November 2025 and February 2026, when UCL moved the list to SharePoint.[23] The one public Tableau dashboard we have found connected with UCL, the Educational Deprivation Dashboard of September 2023, describes schools and colleges in London and holds no admissions data.[24]
So far, only the LNAT averages. For 2025/26 (2026 entry) UCL gives 23 for all the test results it received, 30 for offer holders and 27 for contextual offer holders.[22] We have not found an FOI reply or a table of applications and offers for 2026 entry.
UCL’s page on tests and interviews for the 2027 cycle, as it stood in August 2026, still gave the 2024/25 averages of 29.4 for offer holders and 26.3 for contextual offer holders,[4] so the 2025/26 figures appeared on UCL’s page for counsellors first. UCL’s table for the 2025 UCAS cycle sits in a folder dated February 2026,[1] so we would expect a table for the 2026 cycle in early 2027, although UCL has not said when it will publish one.
UCL’s table of applications, offers and places by faculty and department for the 2025 UCAS cycle (entry in 2025), excluding Clearing. Faculty of Laws, all degrees together: 4,552 applications, 637 offers, 200 places, 7.1 applications per offer and 22.8 per place. It gives no figures for single degrees. The file sits in a folder dated February 2026.
M100 figures for the 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25 admission cycles, which we read as 2023, 2024 and 2025 entry. Applicants: UK-domiciled 2,669, 2,458, 2,272; non-UK 1,694, 1,573, 1,676. Offer holders: UK 189, 267, 300; non-UK 140, 272, 278. Offer rates: UK 7%, 11%, 13%; non-UK 8%, 17%, 17%. Enrolling students: UK 99, 111, 111; non-UK 53, 97, 89. Mean Section A scores of successful applicants: home 27.6, 28.8, 29.5; international 28.7, 30.5, 30.3, with quartiles (2024/25: home 27, 30, 32; international 28, 30, 32). Essay means 3.6 to 3.8, with a lower quartile of 3.5 and an upper quartile of 4. The means do not match UCL’s June 2025 offer-holder averages for the same cycles, and neither reply explains why.
For the 2027 cycle every applicant to a UCL Laws undergraduate degree must take the LNAT by 31 December 2026. UCL sets a benchmark threshold on the multiple-choice score each year from earlier applicants’ average; an Admissions Tutor then marks the essay, which "carries considerable weight", and decides on the whole application. Applicants to the European Legal System degrees who are being considered for an offer have an online interview to assess their language. As read in August 2026 the page still gave the 2024/25 averages: 29.4 for offer holders and 26.3 for contextual offer holders.
No interview for the three-year LLB (M100); no fixed benchmark or minimum LNAT score; two of three A-levels from UCL’s preferred list, with no preference within it; offers for only one UCL Laws programme; deferral for one year at the Faculty’s discretion; mature applicants; Realising Opportunities; no transfers in from other universities and no advanced standing. It gives the offer holders’ average of 29.4 and the contextual offer holders’ 26.3 for the last cycle.
For 2013 to 2017 entry: M100 applicants (2,261, 2,488, 2,422, 2,536, 2,627), offer holders (463, 527, 491, 497, 551) and offer rates (20% or 21% each year); average A* grades at (I)GCSE for applicants (4.6, 4.4, 4.1, 4.4, 4.0) and offer holders (7.1, 6.6, 6.6, 7.4, 6.4), with 43% to 50% of applicants holding GCSE grades when they applied; average predicted A-level A* grades of 1.4 to 1.5 for applicants and 2.1 to 2.2 for offer holders; and applicants’ average MCQ scores of 22.4, 23.4, 24.2 and 22.4 for 2013/14 to 2016/17.
M100 applicants, offers and offer rates for the 2017 to 2020 cycles (2,627, 550, 20.94%; 2,659, 536, 20.16%; 3,108, 599, 19.27%; 3,178, 809, 25.46%); the same for applicants domiciled outside the UK (1,482, 306; 1,509, 295; 1,588, 289; 1,598, 409); offer holders’ LNAT averages of 27, 26, 26 and 27 for 2016/17 to 2019/20; offers to IB applicants (111, 105, 120, 145, about a fifth of all offers); and average IB scores of 39.0 to 39.6 for applicants and 40.7 to 41.0 for offer holders.
The 2018 admissions cycle for M100: 2,659 applicants, 536 offer holders, an offer rate of 20.2%; offer holders’ average LNAT score 26 and lowest 20; offer holders averaged 2.9 A* and 6.1 A grades at (I)GCSE (applicants 3 and 3.6); average predicted A-levels A*A*A for applicants and offer holders.
Means and standard deviations of the LNAT multiple-choice score and essay for applicants and offer holders, 2018 to 2021 entry (MCQ means rounded to whole numbers, essay means to the nearest 0.5; applicant figures cover only applicants whose score UCL recorded, and UCL says they are not representative of all applicants). States that an essay is only marked if an applicant meets all entry requirements and has an LNAT score above a certain level. The attached spreadsheet gives, for 2018 to 2022, IB applicants (312 to 401), their average predicted score (41 to 42) and that of IB offer holders (43), IB students who "got in" (45, 50, 70, 60, 30), and applicants and offers rounded to fives (1,725 and 630 for 2018; 2,885 and 710; 3,055 and 790; 3,565 and 580; 3,965 and 465 for 2022).
Applications and offers for every UCL undergraduate programme in the 2023/24 admission cycle (2024 entry), as of 29 July 2024. LLB Law 4,148 and 544; Law with French Law 194 and 38; Law with German Law 51 and 17; Law with Hispanic Law 84 and 9; LLB (UCL) and LLB (HKU) 211 and 9; LLB English and German Law 11 and fewer than 5.
The application process for international students is exactly the same as for UK students, through UCAS by the relevant deadline.
UCL’s course list for 2027 entry shows five Law degrees taking UCAS applications: Law LLB (M100), Law with French Law with Study Abroad LLB (M141), Law with German Law with Study Abroad LLB (M142), Law with Hispanic Law with Study Abroad LLB (M144) and Bachelor of Laws (UCL) and Bachelor of Laws (HKU) with Study Abroad LLB (M103). All start in September 2027, and applications close at 6pm UK time on 13 January 2027.
The Faculty’s list of LLB programmes and their structures: Law (three years); Law with French, German or Hispanic Law (four years, with the third year at Paris II Pantheon-Assas, Cologne or Munich, or Carlos III Madrid); the dual LLB with the University of Hong Kong; Law with Another Legal System; and the dual LLB/JD with Columbia. The pages carry no admissions statistics.
Entry requirements (read in the 2026-entry edition): A*AA with no specific subjects; GCSE English Language and Mathematics at grade 6 (B); contextual offer AAB with GCSEs at grade 4 (C); IB 39 points with 19 at higher level and no higher level score below 5 (contextual 36 with 17); Advanced Highers A1,A,A; Access to HE Diploma with 36 credits at Distinction and 9 at Merit; Pre-U D2,D3,D3; BTEC, T Levels and the UAL diploma not accepted; no resits.
The only 2027-entry Law course page we could read. A*AA with German, GCSE English Language and Mathematics at 6 (B); contextual AAB with GCSEs at 4 (C); IB 39 with German at higher level grade 6. Complete fluency in German; the language degrees have an interview to assess language; no resits; the LNAT for every Law applicant. Every figure matches the 2026-entry pages.
Two years at UCL and two at the University of Hong Kong, with a Bachelor of Laws from each. UCAS code M103. Apply to UCL or HKU, not both in the same cycle (applications to both are disqualified), with an additional statement of up to 500 words on your motivation.
Not available through UCAS. After the first year of the LLB Law degree, students may apply to transfer to a programme with a year in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong or Sweden; selection is mainly on academic merit.
Not available through UCAS: applicants apply for the LLB Law degree, and at most three students a year transfer onto the dual degree.
The three stages of selection (academic qualifications; a benchmark threshold on the multiple-choice score; an Admissions Tutor who marks the essay and decides on the whole application); the three qualities tutors look for; the rules on resits, one sitting, GCSE waivers, English (Level 4: IELTS 7.5 with 7.0 in each part), foundation courses and graduates; the LNAT deadline, the alternative test where there is no centre and the rule on authorised resits. In 2023/24 the average LNAT score of results received was 24.3, of offer holders 29.8 and of contextual offer holders 28; in 2024/25 they were 23, 29.4 and 26.3 (shown rounded, as 29 and 26, from April 2026).
The public list of every FOI request made to UCL, on all subjects. The replies on Law admissions cited in this guide are listed separately below.
Links the applications-per-place table for the 2025 UCAS cycle. For some of its most oversubscribed courses UCL uses a gathered field, assessing all applications received by the UCAS deadline together, and it aims to make decisions by the end of April. Under LLB Law (all courses) it says that all applicants must sit the LNAT.
UCL Laws has no set minimum LNAT score; each year it sets a benchmark threshold from the average multiple-choice score of earlier applicants. In the academic year 2025/26 the average LNAT score of the test results UCL received was 23, offer holders averaged 30, and those who received a contextual offer averaged 27; no score guarantees an offer. Read 24 October 2026.
Formerly a list of UCL’s staff dashboards on its Tableau site, opened with a UCL username and password. Between November 2025 and February 2026 the page was retired with a note that the list had moved to SharePoint.
A public Tableau dashboard, funded by UCL with Linking London, on educational deprivation in London schools and colleges. It holds no UCL admissions data.
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