This course serves as a way for non-law undergraduates to satisfy the legal professional bodies’ requirements for the academic stage of training and progress to the relevant professional postgraduate courses. The PGDL forms the academic stage of training (as determined by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Bar Standards Board) for those who wish to qualify as solicitors and barristers in England and Wales and who hold a non-law undergraduate degree (or hold a law degree which is insufficient for the regulatory bodies’ requirements).

Applicants must hold a first degree with at least a second class in any field of study.