According to the HEPI data, collated from the survey responses of around 15,000 students, those in law school are clocking around 29 hours of study per week – nothing to sniff at, but still a full five hours per week less than the 34 hours put in by the average art student. In fact, the HEPI data ranks law student workloads as ‘below average’ when compared to the broader student cohort, for whom the average weekly work load across disciplines was calculated as 33 hours per week. Medicine and dentistry, for the second consecutive year, were ranked as the most time-consuming disciplines for students with an average of 47 hours’ study per week. Also clocking in above law students were those studying architecture (with an average of 40 hours per week), education (with 42 hours per week) and engineering (with 31 hours per week).

Sources: Legal Cheek; HEPI