King’s College London Master of Laws LLM

King’s College London Master of Laws LLM is a postgraduate law programme delivered by The Dickson Poon School of Law. It allows students to build advanced legal knowledge across a wide range of areas, including international law, commercial law, corporate law, human rights law and intellectual property law.

For UCO Business users, this programme is most relevant to the Law pathway, with links to International Law, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Human Rights Law and Intellectual Property Law.

The programme is suitable for students seeking advanced legal study in London with access to a broad postgraduate law curriculum.

Applicants need an undergraduate degree with high 2:1 honours, assessed as an overall average of at least 65% across all years of study, in Law or in a degree with at least 70% law content.

Exceptionally, applicants may be considered where a comparable academic level has been achieved through other graduate studies, such as a Graduate Diploma in Law, or where the applicant has at least three years of legal work experience and a 2:1 rather than a high 2:1 in their Law degree.

Applications must be made online through King’s Apply. A non-refundable application fee of £130 applies.

Applicants must submit a personal statement, official academic transcript, and degree certificate if the degree is already completed. References are not required for the LLM and submitted references are not taken into account during assessment.

Applicants may optionally include a CV or evidence of professional registration.

This programme uses King’s English language Band B.

IELTS Academic requirement: 7.0 overall with a minimum of 6.5 in each skill.

PTE Academic requirement: 69 overall with a minimum of 62 in each communicative skill.

TOEFL iBT requirement for tests taken before 21 January 2026: 100 overall with a minimum of 25 in writing and 23 in each of the other skills.

TOEFL requirement for tests taken from 21 January 2026: 5 overall with a minimum of 4.5 in each skill.

Cambridge C1 Advanced or C2 Proficiency requirement: 185 overall with minimum 176 in all skills.

All elements must be demonstrated in one test. King’s does not accept TOEFL MyBest scores or IELTS One Skill Retake.