Law - Single, five-year master's degree programme

An application training system, excellent academic staff, interesting practical classes and high marks from independent experts. This is how the single master's degree programme in the field of "LAW" at WSPiA can be described in the shortest possible terms.

If you are wondering where you can best learn the regulations and prepare to pass your chosen application, then be sure to check out what WSPiA Rzeszowska Szkoła Wyższa can offer you.

WSPiA Rzeszowska Szkoła Wyższa is the only non-public university in Podkarpacie educating future lawyers and authorised to confer the degree of Doctor of Laws. The university launched this course 15 years ago. Since then, it has been successfully developing it, implementing new ideas that allow for even better and practical preparation of graduates to pass the exam for the chosen application and to find work in various professions related to legal education. The single master's degree course in LAW lasts 5 years and is conducted at College of Law at WSPiA.

WSPiA's law degree programme offers you a range of solutions to suit your needs and future plans.

One of them is the possibility to choose the study of practical law. It is designed to prepare you for entry into a general apprenticeship at the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution (and subsequently as a judge or prosecutor) or as an advocate, notary, solicitor or bailiff.

However, if you intend to choose a different legal career path, remember that after studying at WSPiA you can take up employment in professions and positions for which a law degree is required (but no apprenticeship exam is required). After such studies you can work in, among others: Police, Customs Service, Border Guard, Prison Service, public administration (marshal's offices, voivodeship offices, municipal offices, communal offices), administrative service of the judiciary and prosecution. You can also set up your own business, e.g. in the field of legal services.

Unlike other universities, WSPiA focuses on training specialists in various fields of law.

WSPiA Rzeszowska Szkoła Wyższa is distinguished from other universities conducting the field of "LAW" in many respects. Our asset is the scientific and didactic staff created to provide a high level of education. WSPiA employs 4 judges of the Supreme Administrative Court.

During classes at WSPiA, you will meet such people as Professor Andrzej Zoll (former President of the Constitutional Tribunal and former Ombudsman), Professor Zbigniew Ćwiąkalski (former Minister of Justice), Professor Bożena Wieczorska (retired judge of the Supreme Administrative Court), Professor Zbigniew Czarnik (retired judge of the Supreme Administrative Court), Professor Robert Sawuła (judge of the Supreme Administrative Court). Our staff also includes dozens of judges, prosecutors, attorneys and legal advisors providing guarantees of the transfer of practical knowledge at the highest level.

It's worth studying with the best!

You must know that WSPiA Rzeszowska Szkola Wyższa is one of the best non-public universities in Poland according to independent experts!

Based on an analysis of the results of entrance examinations for legal applications prepared by the Ministry of Justice, over 57 per cent of WSPiA Rzeszowska Szkoła Wyższa graduates who completed their studies in 2020 and took examinations for their chosen application completed it with a positive result. This places us in the top three among non-public universities in Poland and in the first place in the region.

In last year's 10th Ranking of Law Faculties of the daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita, our University also achieved very good results. According to the Ranking, WSPiA can boast the best pass rate for legal applications among 17 non-public law universities. The authors of the Ranking also assessed very highly the scientific potential of WSPiA (5th place) and the quality of education of students in the field of "LAW" (4th place).

In turn, according to the National System for Monitoring the Economic Fate of Graduates (ELA) prepared by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, 94 per cent of graduates of law studies at WSPiA find a job after graduation. In terms of earnings, immediately after graduation, 'LAW' graduates at WSPiA receive a salary of more than PLN 3,200 and are the fastest in the region to find a full-time job. It takes them less than a month.

Practice makes perfect

In addition to classic lectures and exercises, WSPiA offers its students specialised practical classes to improve their skills. Therefore, at our University, you will also participate in, among other things, workshops, practical workshops and seminars with practitioners. During such classes, the lecturer discusses with the students examples of legal problems they encounter in their daily work. While learning about the professions they will pursue in the future, students at our University participate, for example, in simulated court hearings. Such simulation allows them to impersonate various

procedural roles, e.g. that of a barrister, prosecutor or judge, and their preparation is assessed by practitioners cooperating with the JCAA.

Being a student of the WSPiA Rzeszowska Szkoła Wyższa, you also have the opportunity to act in one of the best Student Law Clinics in Poland (third place in Poland in the ranking of Rzeczpospolita newspaper). In the Law Clinic, students under the supervision of lecturers provide free legal advice to indigent residents of the Subcarpathia region. Among other things, they deal with issuing legal opinions in individual cases in the field of administrative, tax, civil and criminal law. In this way, they not only verify and supplement their theoretical knowledge, but first and foremost learn to analyse specific factual situations and assess them from the point of view of the applicable law.

WSPiA Rzeszowska Szkoła Wyższa has been cooperating very strongly with Law Offices for many years. As part of the cooperation, our students can participate in internships and work placements. All this is done so that the student, already during his/her studies, can get to know the legal profession from the practical side and gain experience necessary for later work.