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Advanced degrees are offered by some law schools, but are not requirements for admission to the practice of law in the Philippines. Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) – The LL.B. was the most common law degree offered and conferred by Philippine law schools. It was a standard four-year law program covering all bar exam subjects.
The first law school in the Philippines is the Faculty of Civil Law of the University of Santo Tomas which was founded in 1734.. As of 2007, there are 89 law schools legitimately operating and regulated by the Legal Education Board, Commission on Higher Education, Philippine Association of Law Schools, Philippine Association of Law Professors, and the Association of Law Students of the ...
The most recent ranking (December 2015) for the top ten law schools in the Philippines by the Legal Education Board is based on the cumulative performance of law schools in the 2012, 2013 and 2014 Bar Examinations. The list only included law schools which had 20 or more examinees: [15] University of the Philippines (10%)
The college started accepting applicants in Academic Year (AY) 2009-2010 and started its classes in AY 2010-2011 with the Juris Doctor program, a four-year professional degree. Originally, the college first offered the Bachelor of Laws degree in 2010, but efforts to enrich its curriculum were made such that the program was revised, changing ...
Known as Facultad de Derecho Civil, the University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Civil Law is the oldest lay college in the University as well in the Philippines. [1] It was established on September 2, 1734, the same year that the Faculty of Canon Law was founded, with a curriculum identical to that adopted during the time in leading universities in Europe.
The college has the following programs: [4] Juris Doctor (J.D.) - a standard four-year law degree program covering all subjects in the Philippine Bar Examinations.; Bar Refresher Course (two semesters) - a special review program for law graduates in preparation for the annual Bar Examinations.
Like the majority of law schools in the country, UP used to provide the Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), a standard four-year law program covering all subjects in the bar exams, until the change to J.D. was made in order to reflect more accurately the U.P. law program being a "professional as well as a post baccalaureate degree."
The college offers a Juris Doctor (JD) program. Admission into the college is very selective. To be admitted for enrollment, the applicant must be a holder of a four-year undergraduate degree (i.e. Bachelor of Science or any equivalent degree) and must have earned at least twelve units in English, six units in Filipino, six units in Mathematics and eighteen units in the Social Sciences, such ...