PGDip Solicitor Level 7 Apprenticeship at Nottingham Trent University

Programme overview

The Level 7 Solicitor Degree Apprenticeship leads to a Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Legal Knowledge on completion of Stage 2, which prepares apprentices for SQE 1 and SQE 2 after the LLB (Hons) Law stage. The six-year part-time apprenticeship combines work in a legal firm with academic study and ends with the SQE stages as end-point assessments set by the SRA.

Faculty: Nottingham Law School | Duration: Six years (Stage 2 spans years five and six) | Intake: September 2026 | Study mode: full-time / degree apprenticeship | Location: Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Year five covers Professional Conduct, Public and Administrative Law and Legal Systems, Dispute Resolution in Contract and/or Tort, Property Law and Practice, Business Law and Practice, Wills and the Administration of Estates and Trusts, and Criminal Law and Practice. Year six covers Criminal Practice, Dispute Resolution, Property Practice, Wills and the Administration of Estates and Trusts, and Business Practice. Internal assessments replicate SQE 1 and 2.

Career pathways

Having passed the SQE and completed qualifying work-based learning, successful apprentices qualify as solicitors.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Apprentices must be a UK resident or have the right to work in the UK, have a job or job offer from an employer supporting the apprenticeship, and spend at least 50% of the working week in England. International applicants must have been ordinarily resident in the UK and Islands for the previous three years (not mainly for full-time education), hold permission to live in the UK not for education purposes only, and have a visa and contract lasting the full apprenticeship. Employer sponsorship is required.

Intake: September 2026

Duration: Six years (Stage 2 spans years five and six)

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