Uni of Edinburgh and Manchester Offers for LLB Law, which one to choose?

I just received my LLB Law offer from University of Edinburgh and University of Manchester as an international overseas student. I want to become a corporate solicitor in big city firms such as magic, silver cirlce, us firms, or other top ones.

My heart says Edinburgh because as an international student I feel like I will have more job opportunities after I graduate other than big law in the UK such as international arbitration etc. However, I really want to be in big law and I also feel like studying Scots law in uni of Edinburgh will affect my employability even though I have high degrees or a strong cv. Neverthless, I saw plenty of uni of edinburgh graduates securing magic circle training contracts, I know studing england and wales law is not a pre-requiste to become a solicitor in there or affects TC landing, and when I entered offer holder days of the uni of edinburgh one of the tutors told me that 2 students out of 14 student in her class secured training contracts in the magic circle firms. Furthermore, the law society there organizes career days, dinners, fairs and more with big firms such as Linklaters, white and case, a&o shearman and more.

So I'm really confused because otherwise I would be committing my manchester offer(got rejected from my other unis bc of my lnat score). Can someone help me with it?

Posted Feb 15, 2026, 8:29 PM UTC

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