LUKE SWETMAN: My name’s Luke Swetman and I’m in my second year of Business and Law at QUT.

I chose to study Law mainly because I feel that the skill set a Law degree gives you is very generic and you can apply the skills that you learn to really any other field, and for me I really want to go into business so I felt that Law was a natural companion degree for it.

The great thing about QUT so far for me has just been the balance between theory and actual practical knowledge has been really strong at QUT, just because even when you get into the subjects you find that it’s so embedded into them that you really can’t escape it.

Because you know that every subject that you do, not only are you just doing exams but you’re also getting the chance to learn how to send memorandums to partners in Law firms, you’re learning how to get up in court and actually act on behalf of a client.
It’s those kind of skills that I really wanted to make sure that I graduated with, I didn’t want to get out there and have to be retaught things in the workforce.

ARLOU ARTETA: My name’s Arlou Arteta.

I’m a Bachelor of Law, double degree student, and I’m in my fifth year.

QUT is fantastic, and especially being right at Gardens Point, right next to the city and right next to the gardens, and just being able to connect with a whole lot of students from different faculties, not only the Law faculty as well.

It’s just an amazing experience, and there’s so many opportunities to get engaged with the university, not only through the faculty, through faculty events, but also through the student guild and a lot of student run events as well.

The balance of theory and practical at QUT, I think, is quite well balanced, because a lot of what we learn especially in the first foundation, first two years of our Law degree, is quite theory based but at the same time would have a lot of practical applications, like writing memos, writing letters to the clients.

So I think the balance is really good to have a feel of what is the theory associated behind the Law and also being able to practise it, still being a student, in a daily situation.

My favourite thing about the Law degree is, I reckon, is the lectures.

Having these wonderful people who have come from such varied backgrounds and who are so experienced within the fields of Law and having them tell us stories of how they’ve made a difference in a client’s life, and I think that is vital to hear as a student, to how you can make a difference; and that’s the reason why I studied Law in the first place, and to see that other people who have gone Law school before me are able to do that, even sometimes on a daily basis, I think is fantastic.

EDWARD ROBINSON: My name’s Ed Robinson, I’m currently studying a Bachelor of Law and Finance here at QUT.

I’m in my first year out of five.

The lecturers are really friendly and helpful.

Coming in to uni from the Sunshine coast it was really daunting that these people were going to be alien, they weren’t going to be really connecting on my sort of level, but that really wasn’t the case, they were friendly, they were approachable.

The facilities here are absolutely fantastic, we’ve got the Botanic Gardens, which although is not a QUT facility, is an absolutely beautiful place to go spend a lunchtime.

We’ve also got 24/7 computer labs where if you don’t have internet, printers, those sorts of things, you can walk in anytime, day or night, and get access to these sorts of facilities.

We’ve got fantastic libraries, one’s dedicated entirely to Law, Science, those sort of general applications.

We’ve got gyms, we’re building a state of the art swimming pool and fantastic new science labs for 2012.

Graduates doing my degree, they’ve got any number of opportunities, there’s the stigma that people studying a Law degree can only become a lawyer, but that’s really not true, there are so many ways, you can go into business, you can go into marketing, you can go into journalism.

What you’re saying if you’ve got a degree at QUT; you’ve got a broad range of skills rather than content knowledge, and that’s the way the market’s going, you’re all about constant life learning, QUT’s provided that with a Law degree.