BPP offers masters in business option to all LPC and BPTC students
BPP Law School has expanded its portfolio by giving all its Legal Practice Course (LPC) and Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) students the opportunity to graduate with a masters in business.
Peter Crisp
However, aspiring lawyers without a training contract will be charged £3,650 extra to take part in the bespoke business programme, which was previously only offered in collaboration with law firms for their future trainees.
The programme, which will launch in January 2012, is designed to enable students to take a holistic view of legal problems that they will encounter in practice.
The course, which is divided into three modules covering business strategy, analysis, management and finance, will allow the aspiring lawyers to achieve the MA in law and business in only 15 weeks, during the completion of their postgraduate courses.
In a statement BPP chief executive Peter Crisp said: “New lawyers will have a distinct advantage if they can demonstrate real business acumen and grasp business practices and principles.”
The news follows a further tuition fee hike for the law school giant’s LPC, BPTC and GDL courses of up to five per cent (30 November 2011).
BPP continues to charge the highest fees out of all the law schools, with students wishing to enrol on the LPC or BPTC having to fork out £13,550 and £16,540 respectively, plus the compulsory Solicitors Regulation Authority and Bar Standards Board fees.
Readers' comments (2)
Anonymous | 6-Dec-2011 12:55 pm
So if I do the two-year LLB, LPC and the masters I will have to fork out a total of £23,300! Wow what an opportunity. Another course to exploit desperate aspiring lawyers.
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Pevil superevil | 6-Dec-2011 3:29 pm
@anon 12:55
A little bit of calculating:
If you do a 3 year degree at a "normal" uni at approx. 6k per year (18.000 for the whole degree) and do the LPC (15.000) and the master (3.650) it is more expensive.
18.000 + 15.000 + 3.650= 36.650
Therefore, it is cheaper to do the whole education with BPP (for example) as you save 13.350 . But I still agree legal education is too expensive.
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