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There are UTS grads working in top tier firms ...? There's UWS kids as well. If you're interested in working in legal practice or business you can get there from UTS, UWS, Club Mac or all sorts of places. I used to have the usyd attitude as well. Then I realised it wasn't true and that semesters...

Yea what's said above is certainly true of UTS as well. But I think a good library is still important. The problems with the UTS library are that it's loud, though they've tried hard to fix this problem and they're certainly more successful than Usyd was when I studied there years ago, it's...

I dunno, you can use international studies to learn a language which I think is a good skill. UTS is pretty good for this - you get to go on a year exchange and the uni gets your tickets and things and sets everything up.

Trev: It's an undergraduate degree and thus in spite of popular opinion the quality of the faculty is going to be less important than your abilities and passions. But they're not bad. There's some pretty well known people in legal academia at UTS. There's probably more at Usyd but UTS isn't...

I'm Sydney Uni alumni. But even were I not I think this advice whether coming from me or from the postman would be equally correct. Like the postman (probably) I've also got a lot of academic and life experience. There's no allegations about anyone and what I said is hardly misleading and...

I've had a lot of job interviews and noone has asked about my UAI. In fact, if they did, I would worry that I had failed to highlight more important or relevant aspects of my experience, or that the interview had drawn to a point where it's almost small talk asking about my HSC results. I...

Well from my own experience (and I admit it's limited) of living overseas twice people have heard of Sydney Uni. Perhaps Melbourne as well though not as many people are familiar with the city itself. Go to a pub in a student town in Asia or Europe and mention ANU. People will think it's an...

I disagree with the above. I'm a postgrad but I had a class with undergrads last semester, admittedly at UTS, and you're talking on the whole about a complete bunch of spuds. They still needed high UAIs to get where they were, many came from elite private and selective schools. With the...

To me a 'higher focus on issues of human rights and social equality' sounds like a marketing gimmick. You have to remember that you are an undergraduate. Human rights lawyers (and if anyone who has better information, ie not 'i know this guy who ...' wishes to correct me I'm willing to admit...

I'm a UTS law student. If you have the marks for UNSW then UNSW has a good reputation so I would recommend that. On the whole I think that UNSW is overrated to death but I'm a Usyd graduate and you'd probably expect me to say that. But you cannot deny UNSW's group of eighthood and thus it's a...

I cannot stand Canberra. I mean each to his own of course but the jobs, the lifestyle, the excitement, the prestige, it's all in Sydney. And when you're talking group of 8 unis I don't think anyone is going to look down on Usyd next to someone from ANU, especially not for law.

Yea don't go to ANU. When push comes to shove the inescapable fact is that it's in Canberra. Sydney's a good uni and UTS aint too bad too.

If you want to go to Sydney do grad law. The big unis are moving towards JDs instead of 22 year old solicitors now and that's a good thing. Ride that wave. Sydney isn't doing that yet but give it a few years and they will be following Melbourne's lead I reckon. There's nothing wrong with UTS...

OP: if you like law do it. If you don't, don't. Why is there is so much baggage to the story? For me: got an undergrad degree, got a job, worked for a while, wanted to law, doing grad law. The fact that the big unis are moving to grad law now means something yea? Undergrad law is on the way...

You will probably find that even if you don't overload that uni work is intense enough?

UTS is really good for international studies but Usyd is better for law. But UTS is not bad for law. It's not a glorified arts degree - it's just an arts degree. Arts degrees are not bad things, especially not when combined with law. People who bitch about arts students are often frustrated...

Nah it's USYD>UNSW>UTS>TAFE>Club Mac>UWS>Other States

Yea I went the other way around - Arts degree, full time job for three years and now JD. And yea Arts is really underrated. Arts teaches you some general skills and puts your brain in the right gear for law which is very analytical and language-y. I recommend what I did. Law looks like fun but...

Yea - still think the 'Melbourne' (why does Melbourne adopt something from overseas then put their name on it, part of it's eternal search for recognition next to big brother Sydney?) model is superior. My thinking is that the reason for the double degree is that law firms and their clients...

I'd get a generalist degree then do a grad LLB or a JD afterwards. No offence kids but I have classes with the just fallen out high school law students and very few of them possess the maturity or the time to actually do what law demands and law demands a lot. If you have to go a uni that...