Bar Professional Training Course

"BPTC" redirects here. For other uses, see Bishop Patteson Theological College.

The Bar Professional Training Course or BPTC was a postgraduate course which allowed law graduates to be named and practise as barristers in England and Wales. The eight institutes that ran the BPTC along with the four Inns of Court were often collectively referred to as Bar School. Until September 2010, it was known as the Bar Vocational Course, or BVC. It was abolished in 2020 and replaced by the vocational component of Bar training.

The BPTC was one of the most expensive legal courses in Europe.

The academic stage is the first of the three stages of legal education; the second is the vocational stage (formerly the BPTC) and the third is the practical stage (pupillage). On successful completion of the BPTC, which also involved completing twelve qualifying sessions, students were called to the Bar; however, only those who then successfully completed pupillage could work as barristers.

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