The University of Law, London Moorgate (GDL)

Surrounded by the buzz of London’s financial district, University of Law’s slick Moorgate campus delivers a GDL programme that is tailored towards those pursuing a City career. It’s no surprise that it sees itself as the “corporate choice”, neighbouring as it does global law firm giants such as Linklaters and Simmons & Simmons. In fact, Slaughter and May is literally across the road and students can look out of their windows and see what’s going on inside the all-glass elite law firm. This may or may not be a good thing…

Peep show aside, the GDL at ULaw Moorgate is “an excellent modular course” which is “all about the teachers really”. The lecturers have a reputation for memorable teaching methods. An insider recalls a contract lesson: “She taught us about exclusion clauses by making us inspect her wedding dress receipt — there was a clause about her putting on weight!” Another tutor is “absolutely mad and scares you with crazy stories from her childhood to teach you tort, but who will get you a distinction in her class”. It’s “all about land law” for another Moorgate student: “The lecturer taught us ownership and trusts in family homes by using his wife as an example, as she was the legal owner”.