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Take your studies further and open up a vast choice of opportunities by studying a combined Law and Information Technology degree.
A combined qualification in IT and law can prepare students to leverage technology for professional gain. This combined degree emphasises practice-based IT skills that can be integrated into a legal career or comprehensive legal skills that can prepare students for the competitive world of IT.
Students study the fundamentals of law (such as ethics, criminal, tort, contracts and constitutional law, among others) and IT (including programming, networking, information and web systems) plus a range of specialist electives that reflect their professional interests. The Legal Futures and Technology major can also build additional technical expertise.
By completing the law component of this combined degree, students meet the academic requirements for admission to practise law in NSW. As well as gaining discipline-specific skills, students also build capabilities in critical thinking, problem solving, communication and collaboration that can serve them well in a wide range of workplace environments.
All UTS students have the opportunity to develop distinctive capabilities around transdisciplinary thinking and innovation through the TD School. Transdisciplinary education at UTS brings together great minds from different disciplines to explore ideas that improve the way we live and work in the world. These offerings are unique to UTS and directly translate to many existing and emerging roles and careers.
Diploma in InnovationThe Diploma in Innovation (C20060) teaches innovation, supports personal transformation and provides the hard skills needed to support the inventors and inventions of the future. Students come out of the Diploma in Innovation, with the hard skills to create and support sectoral and societal transformation. Graduates are able to fluently integrate ideas, across professional disciplines and are inventors of the future.
All UTS undergraduate students (with the exception of students concurrently enrolled in the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation) can apply for the Diploma in Innovation upon admission in their chosen undergraduate degree. It is a complete degree program that runs in parallel to any undergraduate degree. The course is offered on a three-year, part-time basis, with subjects running in 3-week long intensive blocks in July, December and February sessions. More information including a link to apply is available at https://dipinn.uts.edu.au.
Transdisciplinary electives programTransdisciplinary electives broaden students' horizons and supercharge their problem-solving skills, helping them to learn outside, beyond and across their degrees. Students enrolled in an undergraduate course that includes electives can choose to take a transdisciplinary subject (with the exception of students concurrently enrolled in the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation). More information about the TD Electives program is available here.
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The standard program shown is for a full-time student with law options.
All options shown are law options and are to be drawn from those on offer in CBK90922.
Students wishing to study the major MAJ09443 Legal Futures and Technology need to study 76106 Technology Law, Policy and Ethics (Capstone 1) in the Autumn session of their final year and 76107 Applied Project in Law, Innovation and Technology (Capstone 2) in their final Spring session.
All electives shown are IT electives and are to be drawn from those on offer in CBK90781.
Autumn session | Subject Code | Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects. |
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Communication for IT Professionals | 31265 | 6 |
Web Systems | 31268 | 6 |
Foundations of Law | 70102 | 8 |
Ethics Law and Justice | 70103 | 6 |
Spring session | Subject Code | Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects. |
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Introduction to Information Systems | 31266 | 6 |
Network Fundamentals | 41092 | 6 |
Torts | 70311 | 8 |
Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6 | |
Programming Fundamentals | 48023 | 6 |
Programming 1 | 41039 | 6 |
Autumn session | Subject Code | Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects. |
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Business Requirements Modelling | 31269 | 6 |
Criminal Law and Procedure | 70114 | 8 |
Contracts | 70211 | 8 |
Spring session | Subject Code | Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects. |
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Database Fundamentals | 31271 | 6 |
Australian Constitutional Law | 70616 | 8 |
Civil Practice | 70104 | 6 |
Select 6 credit points of options: | 6 |
Autumn session | Subject Code | Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects. |
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Introduction to Property and Commercial Law | 70327 | 6 |
Evidence | 70109 | 6 |
Select 6 credit points of options: | 6 |
Spring session | Subject Code | Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects. |
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Administrative Law | 70617 | 8 |
Public International Law | 70108 | 6 |
Select 12 credit points of options: | 12 |
Autumn session | Subject Code | Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects. |
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Real Property | 70317 | 8 |
Equity and Trusts | 70517 | 8 |
Select 6 credit points of options: | 6 |
Spring session | Subject Code | Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects. |
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Project Management and the Professional | 31272 | 6 |
Select 6 credit points of options: | 6 | |
Select 12 credit points of options: | 12 |
Autumn session | Subject Code | Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects. |
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Remedies | 71116 | 6 |
Corporate Law | 70417 | 8 |
Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6 | |
Jurisprudence | 76008 | 6 |
Animal Law and Policy in Australia | 76033 | 6 |
Judgment and the Rule of Law | 76057 | 6 |
Gender and Law | 76081 | 6 |
Wickedness and Vice | 78039 | 6 |
Law and Literature | 76902 | 6 |
Criminology | 76012 | 6 |
Indigenous Peoples and the Law | 76068 | 6 |
Select 6 credit points of options: | 6 |
Spring session | Subject Code | Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects. |
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Select 24 credit points of options: | 24 |
Students can graduate with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) if they complete subjects 76090 Research Methodology and 76040 Research Thesis within the course. The degree may be awarded with first or second class honours, which does not require an additional honours year. The rules concerning the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) can be found in undergraduate course information.
Students who meet these criteria for honours are eligible for transfer into the appropriate undergraduate honours exit course on completion of all coursework and occurs just prior to graduation.
Students who undertake the Legal Futures and Technology major and who meet the criteria for honours can choose to undertake honours as part of their degree.
Students interested in research and who excel in their IT studies are eligible to undertake one additional full-time year of honours study in the Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours) (C09019). The honours year is also available on a part-time basis over two years.
For relevant fee information, please choose from the following:
All students at UTS pay tuition fees to contribute towards the cost of their studies.
In 2024 all offers made to domestic undergraduate students will be for Commonwealth Supported Places (CSP), which means that the Australian government makes a substantial contribution towards the cost of your education, and you pay the balance through student contributions.
The amount you pay depends on your area of study and the number of credit points (cp) in which you enrol. At UTS 48 credit points is considered to be one Equivalent Full Time Study Load (EFTSL).
The table to the right shows the amount a student can expect to pay for one year of full-time study (1.0 EFTSL).
Students can choose to pay their student contribution upfront, or if eligible, can defer their fees through HECS-HELP.
In addition to tuition fees, students are required to pay a Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF). The purchase of textbooks and other course materials may also result in additional cost.
You can calculate your student contribution as a percentage of the amounts shown on the table. Fee rates are divided into four bands covering broad discipline areas. It is important to note that a particular subject within a course may fall within a different band.
For example, if you are enrolled in a 6-credit point Architecture subject, your contribution would be 6/48 x $9,314 = $1,164.
2025 student contribution - Area of Study | Amount for 48 cp |
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Law, Accounting, Administration, Economics, Commerce, Communications and Society and Culture | $16,992 |
Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Science | $13,241 |
Allied Health, Other Health, Built Environment, Computing, Visual & Performing Arts, Professional Pathway Psychology, Professional Pathway Social Work, Engineering, Surveying, Environmental Studies, Science and Pathology | $9,314 |
Education, Postgraduate Clinical Psychology, English, Mathematics, Statistics, Nursing or Foreign Languages and Agriculture | $4,627 |
Tuition fees for international undergraduate students can be found using tuition fees search.
Tuition fees must be paid in advance each session and are subject to annual increase. Fees for future year(s) published in fees search, whilst unlikely to change, are estimates only. UTS makes every effort to provide up to date future year(s) fee estimates and to limit any changes, however, UTS reserves the right to vary fees for future year(s) at any time.
For this course, the cost per credit point for 2025 is $986. The total credit points are 240.
All international students should familiarise themselves with the following documents:
In addition to tuition fees, students may be required to pay a Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF). Textbooks and other course materials will also result in additional costs.
UTS Alumni save 10%: alumni.uts.edu.au/advantage
For further information on costs related to your study at UTS, visit the international students' fees information page.
Lawyers with IT skills are in demand. Career opportunities include lawyer or policy adviser in various government departments, in-house legal counsel to an IT or software company, or specialist in areas such as intellectual property, e-commerce and privacy or internet censorship. Alternatively, graduates can work as IT professionals in legal practice, legal publishing or private law firms.
The course comprises a total of 240 credit points, allowing students to graduate with the separate degrees of Bachelor of Information Technology and Bachelor of Laws. The study components for course completion are as follows.
The law component of 144 credit points is made up of:
The IT component of 96 credit points is made up of:
For a current listing of subjects in each course refer to the study package directory.
To practise as a lawyer in NSW, students need to successfully complete an accredited legal academic qualification (e.g. Bachelor of Laws) and an accredited course of practical legal training (PLT), which UTS offers through its PLT program.
Students enrolled in this course may complete their practical legal training by undertaking a postgraduate course in PLT, such as the Graduate Certificate in Professional Legal Practice (C11232).
Students also have the option to undertake the Diploma in Information Technology Professional Practice (C20056) once they have secured suitable full-time employment in the IT industry. This incorporates a minimum of nine months' full-time paid work experience with four supporting subjects at UTS.
Requirement | Credit Points |
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STM90691 Law stream | 144 |
STM90651 Core subjects (Information Technology) | 48 |
CBK90781 Major choice (Information Technology) | 48 |
Total | 240 |
The course duration is five years of full-time study. The law component requires attendance of 10–15 hours of lectures a week and timetable constraints require attendance at daytime and evening classes. The IT component normally requires around 12 hours attendance of lectures and seminars a week and attendance at some evening classes may be required. The Diploma in Information Technology Professional Practice (C20056) includes at least nine months of paid work experience in the IT industry.
Full time, on campusApplicants must have completed an Australian Year 12 qualification, Australian Qualifications Framework Diploma, or equivalent Australian or overseas qualification at the required level.
The English proficiency requirement for international students or local applicants with international qualifications is: IELTS Academic: 6.5 overall with a writing score of 6.0; or TOEFL iBT: 79-93 overall with a writing score of 21; or AE5: Pass; or PTE: 58-64 with a writing score of 50; or C1A/C2P: 176-184 with a writing score of 169.
Eligibility for admission does not guarantee offer of a place.
International studentsVisa requirement: To obtain a student visa to study in Australia, international students must enrol full time and on campus. Australian student visa regulations also require international students studying on student visas to complete the course within the standard full-time duration. Students can extend their courses only in exceptional circumstances.
Check to see if there are additional admission requirements for this course.
Additional information relating to this course, including the ATAR profile of domestic students who commenced this course in Autumn 2022, is located under UTS' admissions requirements, alongside information relating to the commencing student cohort who were enrolled in this course past the Autumn 2022 census date.
If you don't meet the admission requirements for this course, there may be alternative pathways to help you gain admission.
Inherent requirements are academic and non-academic requirements that are essential to the successful completion of a course. For more information about inherent requirements and where prospective and current students can get assistance and advice regarding these, see the UTS Inherent requirements page.
Prospective and current students should carefully read the Inherent Requirements Statement below and consider whether they might experience challenges in successfully completing this course.
UTS will make reasonable adjustments to teaching and learning, assessment, professional experiences, course related work experience and other course activities to facilitate maximum participation by students with disabilities, carer responsibilities, and religious or cultural obligations in their courses.
For course specific information see the Faculty of Law Inherent (Essential) Requirements Statement.
To find out further information regarding ATAR and selection ranks from previous applicants who received an offer to this course, please visit our Admissions Stats Tool
HSC or equivalent mathematics; and any two units of English.
Mathematics Extension 1 and English Advanced are recommended.
Students who have previously undertaken relevant study at a recognised tertiary education institution may be eligible for recognition of prior learning (RPL) in the Bachelor of Information Technology component if the subjects completed are deemed by the faculty to be equivalent to subjects in the course. Study completed more than three years prior to the date of admission cannot be recognised. Limits apply to the number of credit points of RPL granted.
This course satisfies the requirements for admission to the Supreme Court of NSW as a lawyer, provided students complete a practical legal training (PLT) program, such as the Graduate Certificate in Professional Legal Practice (C11232).
Graduates are eligible to apply for professional-level membership of the Australian Computer Society.
Find out about support services, the Australian education system, accommodation and more to help you get the most out of your study at UTS.
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Here are a few important things for you to check out before you apply:
Domestic applicants can apply via the Universities Admissions Centre (UAC) (opens an external site)
UAC code(s): 609020 (Autumn session)
Make a note of the relevant UAC code before starting the UAC application.
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Here are a few important things for you to check out before you apply:
You can meet an international student advisor at one of our events worldwide to ask questions and submit an application.
Visit the UTS Handbook for full academic dates. Visit essential information for international students for the application closing dates.
International applicants can apply to study through UTS International.
International applicants who are currently doing:
can apply through the Universities Admissions Centre (UAC) (opens external site).
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