The LLB degree is a highly flexible three-year, full-time course. There are approximately 220 students on each year of the LLB. While providing a solid grounding in the main areas of English law, and the skills required in legal research and practice, it also allows for individual specialisation through a variety of optional modules offered by the School and other departments in the University. The degree course provides the opportunity to obtain a Qualifying Law degree as recognised by the Law Society and the Bar Council of England and Wales. (Please note: whether or not a degree exempts a student from the academic stage of training to be a solicitor or barrister depends on the modules that the student studies. In practice virtually all of our students choose to study the modules that are required by the Law Society and Bar Council, and thus do gain a Qualifying Law Degree.)