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KCL Law and Professional Practice PGDip

Hi there,
I am due to begin a PGDip (the first year stand-alone of the MSc) in Law and Professional Practice at King's College London and I was wondering if there were any fellow prospective students on here?
Either for the one or two year course, I would love to connect and perhaps just keep each other updated on our journey.
I am aware that there are very mixed reviews on the course, with quite a few people citing it as being incredibly challenging but I was dead set on a law conversion and other than ULaw and BPP, King's was the only appealing option in London and I am still really excited for the experience.
I'd be really curious to hear from other students who will be joining in September of this year (2025) and perhaps anyone who has already completed it and how you found it.
During my undergrad my university was awful at keeping us updated on administrative things such as enrolment so it would also be helpful to confer with other students about details like that as I do worry I will miss something vital!

I will be continuing a part time job (one to two days a week) alongside the course but plan to otherwise treat it much like a 9-5, committing perhaps the majority of my time to it as I understand it to be essentially three years of a law degree crammed into one!

Questions for past students if any are willing to answer:
- How much group work/presentations/public speaking was involved?
- Did you or any of your peers manage to hold down part time jobs?
- Did you manage to have time to be part of any university societies and what is the society/socialisation/community scene like?
- Are the lecturers and staff members supportive?

Thanks for taking the time to read this post, I'd love to hear from everyone.

(edited 5 months ago)

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by Lilyr0se11

Hi there,
I am due to begin a PGDip (the first year stand-alone of the MSc) in Law and Professional Practice at King's College London and I was wondering if there were any fellow prospective students on here?
Either for the one or two year course, I would love to connect and perhaps just keep each other updated on our journey.
I am aware that there are very mixed reviews on the course, with quite a few people citing it as being incredibly challenging but I was dead set on a law conversion and other than ULaw and BPP, King's was the only appealing option in London and I am still really excited for the experience.
I'd be really curious to hear from other students who will be joining in September of this year (2025) and perhaps anyone who has already completed it and how you found it.
During my undergrad my university was awful at keeping us updated on administrative things such as enrolment so it would also be helpful to confer with other students about details like that as I do worry I will miss something vital!
I will be continuing a part time job (one to two days a week) alongside the course but plan to otherwise treat it much like a 9-5, committing perhaps the majority of my time to it as I understand it to be essentially three years of a law degree crammed into one!
Questions for past students if any are willing to answer:
- How much group work/presentations/public speaking was involved?
- Did you or any of your peers manage to hold down part time jobs?
- Did you manage to have time to be part of any university societies and what is the society/socialisation/community scene like?
- Are the lecturers and staff members supportive?
Thanks for taking the time to read this post, I'd love to hear from everyone.

Hi,

I've done a law conversion at ULaw, so I can't speak for the King's staff and community life specifically, but I can hopefully help with some of your other questions! Law conversion courses tend to be quite similar as they are highly regulated.

Your approach to part-time jobs sounds perfect! I (and many of my classmates) treated the course as a full-time job since there is a lot of content to cover, but also worked a bit alongside it. One or two days a week is definitely manageable - I know a lot of people who did that or had zero-hour contracts and essentially took those hours. It might get harder to balance closer to exam periods, but if you have an understanding manager and/or are able to take a bit of time off you should be completely fine!

I'm not certain that the teaching style at ULaw and King's is the same, but at ULaw there are more classes than lectures and these involve group work and then people feeding back to the rest of the class. There were mock trials and things like that occasionally as well. You were very rarely told you had to speak up about something, but the more I participated in the classes the more I found I got from them.

I hope this is helpful, and good luck on the course!

Layla
SQE LLM student