Vladimir Jelacic, Serbia

School of Law Alumni

LLM in Banking and Finance Law

"It was not long after I first applied for the LLM in Banking and Finance Law at the QMUL that I realized I made the right choice. All the replies I got from the staff and all the answers to my anxious inquiries were timely and, what at first struck me as odd, friendly and almost informal, but still professional and appropriate. Right after I came to London and first got introduced to the program and the people behind it, my expectations were confirmed – I found a top-quality LLM program without a stiff upper lip, a place where you work hard, but also play hard, a perfect combination. Throughout the year, beginning with the amazing Cumberland Lodge induction seminar, I kept noticing that the importance has been placed on both curricular and extra-curricular needs of the students. The time spent on lectures as well as the studying time needed to keep up with the course was well balanced, which in my opinion, kept the course intense, but pressure-free. For me this was very important, because the course recognized the significance of leisure and extra-curricular activities while studying in London.

Direct contact with the professors, frequent tutorials, feed-back sessions with the students, individual research support, the best tailored distance learning facility, ample free literature, but also out-of-London inductions, parties, career services, well located lecture venue and friendly staff that gives a completely new meaning to the word administration. When you put that all together, you get a postgraduate law course that managed to escape the stiffness and inflexibility of the corporate approach to education, but maintained the capability to prepare you more than adequately for the encounter with the corporate world awaiting."