Course summary
This 1-year full-time or 2-years part-time programme is designed to provide you with a rigorous and challenging postgraduate degree in law that develops an enhanced understanding, and critical awareness of current problems and new insights into the relationship between Law, State and Individual, and the contexts in which the law operates, alongside allowing you to understand and apply the functioning legal knowledge, and the legal skills required by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to undertake the mandatory Solicitors Qualification Examination (SQE1 & 2). To deliver this comprehensive programme, the University of Winchester has entered into a collaboration with The College of Legal Practice, an experienced, fully accredited Higher Education provider of online professional legal training programmes. You will be taught by a range of experienced Winchester academics sharing their expertise and research interests, alongside experienced legal practitioners from The College of Legal Practice. Your learning will take place via a blended approach of campus-based, weekly three-hour workshops, personal tutor, and supervisor meetings, and online through a combination of asynchronous guided self-study learning, online supervisor and town hall meetings and study resources, including text, multimedia, interactive text and video. You will study a range of modules based on relevant theoretical topics and practice areas. Mandatory level 7 modules include: Solicitors Legal Knowledge (SQE1 prep), Solicitors Legal Skills (SQE2 prep), Law and the State, Law and the Individual and conclude with either the Legal Research Project or the Work Placement in Law. You will be a UK law graduate or will have completed a non-law undergraduate degree and in addition, have clear knowledge of the foundations of legal knowledge gained through completing a Common Professional Exam or Graduate Diploma in Law. The College of Legal Practice is a fully accredited postgraduate law school based in the UK. The team are experts in the SQE having prepared thousands of students for the SQE assessments since its introduction in 2021. They specialise in offering expert supervision and multiple mock assessments that closely reflect the SQE exams.
Entry requirements
Normally a first or second-class UK LLB degree or a law conversion course such as the GDL or CPE. Applicants with relevant alternative qualifications or professional experience who have an excellent level of foundation legal knowledge may be admitted subject to the programme leader’s discretion.
English language requirements
Test | Grade | Additional details |
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IELTS (Academic) | 6 | An overall score of 6.0, including 5.5 in writing is required. If you require Student Visa sponsorship, you will require a minimum of 5.5 in all 4 components. |
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
England | £12000 | Whole course |
Northern Ireland | £12000 | Whole course |
Scotland | £12000 | Whole course |
Wales | £12000 | Whole course |
Channel Islands | £12000 | Whole course |
Republic of Ireland | £12000 | Whole course |
EU | £17450 | Whole course |
International | £17450 | Whole course |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
Provider information
University of Winchester
Sparkford Road
Winchester
Hampshire
SO22 4NR