BPP announces 5% fee rise across all courses for 2012
updated on 09 December 2011
BPP Law School is increasing its course fees by 5% for September 2012’s intake of wannabe lawyers. LPC fees will be raised from £12,900 to £13,550, the BPTC will be hiked from £15,750 to £16,540 and the cost of the GDL will increase from £8,950 to £9,400.
Reported in Lawyer2B, Kaplan Law School has revealed similar fee increases for September 2012, though Kaplan-run courses will continue to cost less than those offered by BPP. Kaplan’s LPC is set to cost £12,850, with the cost of the BPTC also being raised to £15,800. The College of Law will inform of its 2012 fees in January, although the fees it currently charges for the LPC and BPTC amount to less than those BPP were charging, even before the just-announced increase. City Law School currently charges £12,550 for the LPC and 16,000 for the BPTC, with its 2012 fees to be announced in the new year.
BPP’s announcement follows the launch of its five-year law loan in partnership with Investec, the 9.5% fixed interest rate of which, coupled with an annual percentage rate 9.9%, make it significantly more expensive than most high street loans.
BPP chief executive Peter Crisp said: “Since 2009, the fees for many of our law programmes have either been frozen or increased at a rate below inflation - for example our GDL and LPC fees have been held for two years. With a modest increase this year, overall the percentage increase in fees over the last three years has been small, and in line with the current rate of inflation.”
