About
The University of Law (founded in 1962 as The College of Law of England and Wales) is a publicly-funded, for-profit university in the United Kingdom, providing undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in law, business, psychology, criminology, policing and computer science. It also provides postgraduate courses in education, and specialist legal training and continuing professional development courses for British barristers, solicitors and trainees; it is the United Kingdom's largest law school. It traces its origins to 1876.
The College of Law had been incorporated by royal charter as a charity in 1975, but in 2012, prior to the granting of university status, its educational and training business was split off and incorporated as a private limited company. This became The College of Law Limited and later The University of Law Limited. The college was granted degree-awarding powers in 2006, and in 2012 changed its name to The University of Law (ULaw) when it became the UK's first for-profit educational institution to be granted university status.
The charitable branch, which remained incorporated by the 1975 royal charter, became the Legal Education Foundation. Shortly after the granting of university status and being renamed The University of Law in 2012, The College of Law Limited was bought by Montagu Private Equity. Three years later, Montagu sold the company to its present owner, the Netherlands-based company Global University Systems.
The university has 18 locations in the UK in Birmingham, Bristol, Chester, Egham, Exeter, Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, London (Bloomsbury and Moorgate), Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Sheffield, Southampton, Reading, as well as international branches in Hong Kong, Berlin (GISMA Business School) and University of Europe for Applied Sciences (Hamburg campus) and an online campus.