Program Overview

LPC Online

The Legal Practice Course (LPC) is a postgraduate legal qualification that is the final academic step for aspiring solicitors. Once successfully completed, you can go on to a training contract before fully qualifying as a solicitor. Our LPC Online offers you the best possible preparation to practise law with the skills to succeed in business.

Key Facts

Entry requirements

• Minimum second class honours Qualifying Law Degree
• or GDL/CPE or MA Law

Duration options

• LPC Online: 22 months (part-time)
• LPC LLM Online: 23 months (part-time)

Study mode options

• Part-time or Part-time Online

Next start date

• September 2025

Employment Promise

If you don’t get a job within nine months of completing the course, we’ll give you 100% of your fees back.

Course Details

Our LPC Online is a completely supported online study programme, offering you the best truly flexible route to your career as a solicitor. You can study where you want, receiving regular online support and feedback on your work from our professionally experienced lecturers. You’ll have access to world-class learning materials, adapting our on campus material into a variety of engaging online methods.

The course structure has been designed to allow you to build a portfolio of work to support your job applications and help you to stand out from the crowd. The combination of online learning resources and supervision from your lecturer will provide you with relevant knowledge and practical skills needed as a trainee solicitor, while our award-winning careers support will help you with your training contract applications and give you access to over 3,000 pro bono opportunities as soon as you accept your place.

Course Structure

Stage 1 modules

• Introduction to Professional Practice
• Business Law and Practice Knowledge and Skills
• Dispute Resolution Knowledge and Skills
• Real Estate Knowledge and Skills

Stage 2 modules

Students choose 3 electives for the LPC, and students on the LLM LPC must study a 4th elective. The University offers the following electives which cover corporate, commercial and private client practice areas.

• Corporate and Commercial Practice Electives
  • Commercial Law & Practice
  • Employment Law & Practice
  • Intellectual Property Law & Practice
• Commercial and Private Client Practice Electives
  • Advanced Criminal Law and Practice*
  • Commercial Law & Practice
  • Employment Law & Practice
  • Family Law & Practice
  • Intellectual Property Law & Practice
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Law & Practice*
  • Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Law & Practice
  • Private Client Law & Practice

Course Start Dates

September 2025

• Legal Practice Course (LPC)
  • Part-time: Online

September 2026

• Legal Practice Course (LPC)
  • Part-time Online: Online

Fees and Applying

How to Apply

Apply direct to The University of Law.

Fees and Funding

• 2025/26 Course Fee (for courses starting on or after 1 July 2025)
  • Online: Total fees (including £15 SRA registration fee*) - £16,600

We also have a range of scholarships and bursaries available which make studying with us more affordable than ever.

If you choose to study our MSc in Law, Business and Management or LLM in Professional Legal Practice alongside your LPC you could also be eligible for a Postgraduate Master's Loan.

If you’re one of our alumni, you may be eligible to receive our £500 General Alumni Discount.

*This change is set by the SRA and is subject to an increase.