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You won't be chosing your subjects. First semester: Semester 1 Foundations of Law B Criminal Law 1 Contracts 1 Public Law Law, Lawyers & Society See: UNSW LAW : UNSW JD - Duration, structure and courses- Law Sydney Australia And I'd kick back and relax if I were you. That's...

Go to the university that won't cost your parents tens of thousands of dollars. International studies is glorified arts. If that's what you're keen for then do it by all means.

I strongly doubt that the difference will be anything worth spending 90 minutes of your day on. For law at least, the 'brand name' of your university tends to be more important for jobs and so on anyway - an employer is likely not going to care whether you came from campbelltown or parramatta...

Son, if I were still having job interviews, how would I know what the salary was like?

You don't have any friends working at BCG because those salary figures are way off.

Both are pretty bad. UNE is worse.

I'm a bit leery about the use of the term management consulting. So far as I can tell, there's very few firms which actually are management consultants in the way most people would recognise the term - e.g. BCG, Bain and McKinnsey. These firms, needless to say, don't offer internships. If...

Pardon me, but I highly doubt you did two internships in management consulting.

Well, that's not really a rort. If it really did take you an hour to get the answer then it took an hour. Also, it's highly likely that your partner wrote off the expense. A decent slice of what you bill as a clerk, then doubtless as a junior solicitor on rotations will get annihilated by the...

Sure - my point is that this small window into the "road ahead" is outweighed by the focus on applying substantive law. Someone with a legal studies background - me, for instance, was easily fooled into believing that a torts problem question required some consideration of the fairness or...

I disagree. Legal studies is a very poor proxy for learning what it's like to study law. Particularly, the focus on whether particular laws are achieving their stated aims, the fairness or otherwise of laws etc. has little to no relation to applying legal principles, which is what you're...

Good luck!

Just the name of the Act. Fair Trading Act 1987 (NSW)

This would imply that Newcastle University would be as competitive for law as UNSW is. The observation about working in a bigger city equally a higher salary is true, but that also means that it is more difficult to get a job. The university you attend is a discriminating factor for most people...

If you want to practice commercial law and there is no other major reason to choose one over the other (e.g. you already live in Canberra), then come to UNSW

I remember at the Minter Ellison cocktail evening one of the partners mentioned that it was significant - "a few people a year", which would be a moderate slice of the graduates going through their offices. Still, that's really a competence sort of thing by that point I think.

Yeah - it devalues the Masters units.

I think the difference between the species of graduate law degrees has been definitively answered. I'd add that you should pick the first degree you do based on what you think you'll actually enjoy studying/which area you'd like to work in. Three years is a long time to be grinding out a...

Getting an offer. P.S. almost there

Australia - Firm Recommendations This is a decent, back-of-the-envelope guide. I'd probably consider the cut-off between mid and lower-tier to be at DLA or Arnold Block Leibler but your mileage might vary