BCL Law and Accounting (LWA)

at Maynooth University

Law is taken jointly with Accounting for the three years of the programme.

• Students acquire a thorough grounding in both core law subjects and key financial and accounting skills.
• Learn how to compile, analyse, interpret and communicate essential information about the operations of a business – whether that business be a small firm, a publicly traded corporation or an NGO (non-governmental organisation) - while studying technical accounting skills, financial analysis and the measurement of performance in business.
• Enhance employability by developing your faculties for argument, reasoning and for the analysis of complicated ideas.

Mature student applicants are 23 years or older by 1st January in the year of entry to the University. For part-time degrees the mature age is 21. Admission is based on application, written assessment and/or interview. 

 
O4/H7 Leaving Certificate Mathematics or equivalent is required.
 

Mature students must complete the CAO section for mature applicants fully, indicating clearly past or current studies, and outlining educational goals and objectives. Applicants are assessed on the basis of the information provided on their CAO application form. All questions should be answered in full.

The fees for BCL Law and Accounting (LWA) may vary from €6,500 to €15,000 annually for tuition fees. The fee's prices may get higher for International Students.

Options after graduation?

• The numeracy skills, coupled with an ability to think critically and analytically, which are developed on this programme, are invaluable assets in a wide range of careers. Graduates have successful and rewarding careers in accounting, banking and the financial services sector generally, as well as financial research and teaching.
• Graduates of the BCL programme, wishing to pursue a career in accounting, will be in a position to enter professional training and avail of certain exemptions from the professional accounting bodies.
• Graduates of the BCL programme will be in a position to take exams for entrance to the Honorable Society of King’s Inns in order to begin training as a barrister and are eligible to progress to take the Law Society of Ireland’s FE1 examinations to begin training as a solicitor.
• Postgraduate study options at the School of Law and Criminology and the School of Business have a strong international focus to reflect the increasingly global nature of accounting, law and legal practice. Options currently include the LL.M. (International Business Law) and LL.M. (Global Legal Studies). Many of our students continue to further postgraduate study in a very wide range of Business subjects at Maynooth University or another leading university in Ireland or abroad.