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the program.
bachelor of arts in legal management
Bachelor of Arts in Legal Management (LM) is an interdisciplinary study with a curriculum focused on law integrated with essential aspects of business management. The purpose of the program is to develop the study of law within the framework of business management.
Its ultimate goal is to develop students to become leaders and managers of the twenty-first century, equipped with the knowledge of management principles and business laws for good governance and attuned to the environment of globalized business.
Program courses are designed to provide students with adequate knowledge of laws and business management principles, empowering them to create ethical and legally sound business solutions or strategies in the service of the local and the global community.
Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Legal Management, an undergraduate degree program within the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas, the oldest existing university in Asia known for providing 413 years of quality Catholic education, has gained proportionate institutional recognition. Apart from the subject program, the university has twenty-two (22) degree-granting academic units and has recorded over forty-thousand (40,000) students annually.
institutional recognition!
Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Legal Management, with its involvement in various partnership-driven events and activities has shown promising platforms for its students to be exposed in a wide spectrum of networking activities across industries. Through its official governing organization, the UST Legal Management Society (UST LMSOC) and other university-wide organizations and engagements, students are given vast opportunities to immerse themselves beyond the academic grounds and foster the sense of communal relations, interpersonal links, and other significant undertakings which are lucrative in the very nature of the program involving both law and business.
network&industry connections
Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Legal Management has evidently produced competent professionals in both the legal and business fields with a pool of alumni consisting of seasoned lawyers, paralegals, court clerks, human resource managers, entrepreneurs, analysts, corporate strategists, government workers, and many more. This proves the program curriculum versatility proportionately translates to the career opportunities its graduates can venture into and maximize in the ever-evolving professional landscape.
career versatility...
Legal Management, in general, is a unique and distinct undergraduate program, piquing the interest of prospective applicants due to the multifaceted and interdisciplinary nature of the program. In UST AB Legal Management, the curriculum offers a distribution of 70% law and 30% business or management courses — a unique offering by the university, as compared to its competitors, which have an equal distribution of law and business courses, respectively. The existing curriculum of UST AB Legal Management can be a highlighting factor as to why students are interested in this program, as they see this opportunity to be familiar with both worlds of business and law.
dual expertise,
The UST Legal Management program offers a wide array of law and business courses that are pertinent for the progressive learning of the students, as well as enabling them to provide more accurate ethical and legal knowledge to aspiring entrepreneurs. Some of the professional courses offered relevant to aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners are the following: Persons and Contract Law, Principles of Marketing, Labor Laws and Social Legislation, Social Responsibility (With Business Ethics), Applied Economics, and other more business-related courses. According to some of the companies surveyed, UST AB Legal Management program graduates can offer objective and dynamic skills and knowledge that are relevant to a company, specifically, their familiarity with legal frameworks and business management policies. Concurrently, having sufficient familiarity with both law and business can be an edge, especially in the workplace and company settings – which is one of the central unique selling propositions of UST AB Legal Management.
ethical&legal edge
UST AB Legal Management is one of the distinct programs offering this distribution of law and business courses among its top competitors (Ateneo de Manila, De La Salle University, and San Beda University) which offer a Bachelor of Science in Legal Management program, as compared to the University of Santo Tomas, offering a Bachelor of Arts in Legal Management. The curriculum of UST AB Legal Management is relevant and appropriate for the progressive learning of its students.
Furthermore, the current curriculum offers a well-balanced mix of theoretical and practical application of the courses, which the program's students strongly agree with. Moreover, UST Legal Management students strongly agree that the curriculum prepares them for both law school and alternative career paths, as it also allows them to be well-rounded and flexible students
innovative curriculum?
take it from them.
“Legal Management gave me a glimpse of what our future would be like. If one were to enter the legal world, it gives a strong foundation in understanding how laws govern every aspect of society. If one were to enter the corporate world, they already have knowledge on business principles such as management, marketing, finance and many other aspects that LM integrated in its curriculum. Legal Management not only prepares us for different career paths, but also shapes us into all-rounded individuals capable of leading while making contributions to our society.”
Denzyll de Torres, LM Sophomore