Durham Law acceptance rate and LNAT admissions

Durham Law acceptance rate

50.5% of Law applications got an offer for 2025 entry: 1,500 offers from 2,970 applications.

Durham counts applications for Law LLB (UCAS code M101) and, from 2019 entry, rounds its counts to the nearest 5. We hold no figures for Law with Foundation (M102).

Applications rose from 1,379 for 2014 entry to 2,970 for 2025 entry, the most of any year Durham reported. Offers were 1,500 for 2025 entry, the most of any year reported, after falling to 860 for 2022.

The offer rate was between 59.0% and 64.8% in every reported year from 2014 to 2020 entry, then fell to 50.6% for 2021 entry and 35.2% for 2022 entry (860 of 2,440). It was 48.8% for 2023 entry and 50.5% for 2025. For 2013 entry it was 41.7% (654 of 1,569).

For 2021 entry, a separate Durham reply gave the offer rate as 50.7% of applications, made up of 46.2% with a conditional offer and 4.6% with an unconditional offer.

Durham's replies give no application or offer counts for 2018 or 2024 entry.

What LNAT score do you need for Durham Law?

Durham has released no offer rates by LNAT score. Offer holders for 2025 entry averaged 24.9 out of 42 on the multiple choice, against 23.8 for applicants.

Durham's figures are for the multiple-choice section, scored out of 42. Its replies of 2023 and 2024 said the essay was not graded; its 2027 course page says both the multiple-choice score and the essay are always considered.

In a 2019 reply, Durham said the LNAT score contributes to the assessment of merit and potential in an application for the LLB.

Offer holders averaged between 0.7 and 2.2 marks more than applicants in every year from 2019 to 2025 entry.

Both averages vary from year to year: applicants averaged 21.8 for 2022 entry and 25.1 for 2024, and offer holders 24.0 and 26.3 for the same years. These are raw marks, so compare each year's average with that year's.

An average for offer holders cannot give your chance at a particular score, because Durham has not said how many applicants scored the same and missed out.

For 2021 entry Durham also gave the lowest and highest scores: offer holders ranged from 12 to 36 and applicants from 7 to 36.

For how the universities that use the LNAT differ, see our guide to LNAT requirements by university.

Which LNAT scores did Durham's offer holders have?

In each year from 2023 to 2025 entry, between 61.3% and 71.0% of the offer holders in Durham's score bands scored 21 to 30 on the multiple choice.

Durham gave counts of offer holders in score bands, rounded to the nearest 5. It did not give the same bands for applicants, so there is no offer rate by score.

For 2025 entry, 295 of 1,330 offer holders in these bands (22.2%) scored 11 to 20, against 125 of 1,190 (10.5%) for 2024 entry.

Fewer than 5 offer holders scored 10 or below in each year, a count Durham hides, so it is left out of the shares. The bands add to 1,330 for 2025 entry against 1,500 offers.

For 2018 entry, an earlier reply gave six bands for 1,037 offer holders: 22.2% scored 19 or below (230) and 10.2% scored 29 or more (106). Their average was 22.81, from a lowest of 8 to a highest of 35. Those bands differ from the later ones, so the two sets are not compared.

Home and International applicants

International applications had the higher offer rate in each of the three years Durham released: 68.3% against 37.6% for Home applications for 2023 entry.

Durham defines Home and International by fee status. International applications were 39.3%, 36.6% and 37.6% of the total for 2021, 2022 and 2023 entry.

Home offers fell to 300 for 2022 entry, from 470 the year before, while Home applications rose from 1,230 to 1,545. Durham's reply gives no reason. Home offers were 590 for 2023 entry.

International offers stayed between 560 and 645 across the three years, and International applications rose from 795 to 945.

Predicted grades of independent-school applicants

Of independent-school applicants predicted three A-levels, 65.7% of those predicted A*A*A* got an offer over 2019 to 2022 entry, against 41.3% at A*A*A and 28.3% at A*AA.

Durham released predicted grades for independent-school applicants only. There is no state-school comparison, so these rates describe that one group.

Over 2019 to 2022 entry, the 940 independent-school applicants predicted three A-levels received 425 offers (45.2%).

For independent-school applicants predicted at least one A-level, the offer rate fell from 67.9% for 2020 entry (180 of 265) to 26.9% for 2022 entry (90 of 335). Durham's offers across all applicants fell over the same years, from 1,390 to 860.

The 45 applicants predicted AAA over the four years had offers of 5 or fewer in each year, two of them hidden as under 5, so that row is not shown.

Entry requirements

Durham asks for A*AA at A-level for 2027 entry, or 37 IB points with 766 at Higher Level, and the LNAT.

Durham's contextual offer is AAB, and it welcomes resits. Its 2027 course page says both the LNAT multiple-choice score and the essay are always considered, with no minimum multiple-choice score.

Law with Foundation (M102) also requires the LNAT, both parts, with GCSE grade 4 in Mathematics and English and pre-offer assessment activities. Its page gives about 10 applications per place across the whole Foundation Programme.

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