**Foundation Year**

Our Foundation Year provides an excellent alternative route to Keele, providing a unique opportunity to better prepare for your chosen degree, and with guaranteed entry onto your undergraduate course once you successfully complete your Foundation Year. This extra year of study can improve your academic skills, expand your subject knowledge, give you a better understanding of higher education and, perhaps most importantly of all, build your confidence. On the Keele Foundation Year, you'll study on campus, joining our undergraduate community from the outset, with access to all the facilities and support that you'd get as an undergraduate student at Keele.

**International Students**

For International Students, Foundation Years are delivered through our dedicated on-campus provider, Keele University International College. Applications for International Foundation Years are also handled by KUIC; please do not apply via UCAS as the University will not be able to process your application and you may still be charged the UCAS application fee. To find out more and to apply for an International Foundation Year, visit https://kuic.keele.ac.uk/

**Law with Business**

Delivered by two highly renowned academic Schools, our Law with Business LLB investigates the law and develops your business acumen through an awareness of commercial environments and business management. With research-led critical education and a wide range of hands-on learning opportunities, you will build the skills and expertise required for a successful career in law, business or related fields.

**Why choose this course?**
- Gain practical legal skills through Keele’s hands-on learning opportunities

- Tailor your degree programme to your interests and career aspirations through an enriched curriculum and professional networks

- Study the Foundations of Legal Knowledge: Contract Law, Tort Law, Public Law, Criminal Law, European Law, Land Law, and Equity & Trusts

- Global Top 250 for Law (Times Higher Education World University Subject Rankings, 2023)

- Global Top 100 for International Outlook, Law (Times Higher Education World University Subject Rankings, 2023)

Whether you have a desire for a career in commercial law or wish to understand the business environments in which legal firms operate, our Law with Business LLB explores the principles of law that underpin business management. You will investigate how law influences workplace operations and business practices, as well as developing an understanding of the seven foundations of legal knowledge. These include: Contract Law, Tort Law, Public Law, Criminal Law, European Law, Land Law, and Equity & Trusts.

This course enables you to develop a keen appreciation of the relationship between law and business at a theoretical and practical level, whilst building essential skills for a career in law, business or related fields such as finance and human resources.

The core structure of this programme explores the principles of law and business, allowing you to tailor the programme to your interests and careers aspirations as you progress throughout the degree.

**About Keele**

Keele University was established in 1949 by the former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Founded to meet the needs of a changing world, Keele has always had a pioneering vision to be a different kind of university.

We excel in both teaching and research, with some of the most satisfied students in England, and research that is changing lives for the better at a regional, national and global level.

Our beautiful 600-acre campus is one of the biggest in Britain – but all the most important services and facilities are on your doorstep, with accommodation, teaching spaces, facilities including a medical centre, sports centre and pharmacy, and a range of shops, eateries and entertainment venues – including the Students’ Union – clustered around the centre.