Law/Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting

[inc0gnito]

Hey guys, for some reason I haven't heard much about the Law program at Latrobe. I was wondering If I could get your general opinions on their Law program.

I'm not very interested in straight Law, definitely more interested in a double degree. Preferably Business or Finance.


- How good is the program in general ?
- What is the work load like ?
- What would you do alongside Law out of the 4 options ?
- How competitive is it ?

[MJRomeo81]

I can't comment on the course itself, but there tends to be some employer bias when it comes to law. From what I have heard, employers are generally looking for a G08 graduate (for the top firms).

Here are some links you might be interested in (from the La Trobe handbook)

Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Accounting

Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Economics

Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Finance

Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Business

[inc0gnito]

Looking at your PM I see that you go to La Trobe, what do you think of it in general ?

[MJRomeo81]

Looking at your PM I see that you go to La Trobe, what do you think of it in general ?

It's a good uni. Don't expect to be blown away by the buildings or anything (unless you like Soviet style architecture), although the bushland setting is very appealing durin the winter. I can't complain about learning standards or anything like that. The lecturers are really helpful and there's no sense of elitism that you MIGHT get at a G08 uni. There's plenty of subjects in each faculty and a variety of clubs & societies on campus.

Unfortunately La Trobe has a hard on for the health sciences (you only have to walk through the Western lecture theatres and the health science buildings to figure that out) but overall I would recommend the uni if you're willing to give your studies 100%.

[Christiano]

Hey mate, I study Law/Finance at la trobe and I've had a great experience. The people here are extremely friendly, and I find the atmosphere to be quite sociable and less intense and competitive than you would find at say, UoM or Monash. I have a few mates that go to these uni's and tell me that people 'befriend' you on the basis of what you can offer them in terms of academic help. That's extremely subjective but yeah, it tends to be quite laid back.

As to which degree to pick, finance is a good one but you can also do business and major in financial management and a few other finance majors. The first few core subjects are the same for business/finance/accounting so you'll see people around with these subjects. For me personally, the timetabling usually results with me being in the finance/business subjects with other law students doing law/business/finance etc and these are the people you are usually associate with.

As I'm in first year, I found that it's very easy to do well. If you just work semi-consistently for all subjects you can easily achieve HD for most if not all subjects. Especially the business subjects. One of my first semester subjects accounting, had no idea what was going on and I crammed 3 days before the exam and got 85. Not recommended, but yeah.

I am doing criminal law now and you are expected to read about ~50 pages on average every week of cases and readings but no one really does that except the mature age students lol. Like I said, everyone is pretty laid back but intelligent enough to still do well.

I think the ATAR for the double degrees range from 93-97. I got into straight law on 2nd round offer with 90.65 though, then transferred mid year to law/finance (was debating whether to go with law/science or law/business/finance).

Feel free to ask anything else!