undergraduate programmes, more than any other university in the UK. Newcastle Business School has also developed relations with a wide range of other professional bodies. As a result, the university can offer a wide range of professional exemptions in its programmes such as the Accountancy degree which holds exemptions from many of the top accountancy boards including ICAEW, ACCA, and CIMA.
In 2015, Newcastle Business School was the winner of ‘UK Business School of the Year’ at the Times Higher Education Awards.
=== Northumbria Law School ===
Northumbria Law School is located within City Campus East where it shares its building with Newcastle Business School.
Northumbria Law School is one of the nine authorised education and training organisations that provide the vocational component of training for the Bar.
Northumbria also offers 'clinical' courses in law accredited by the Law Society and Bar Council. These allow graduates direct entry to the profession. The institution's Student Law Office is a clinical legal education enterprise, where law students participate in a legal advice and representation scheme on behalf of real clients, under the supervision of practising lawyers. The student law office has managed over 8,300 enquiries, represented over 3,000 clients and secured over £1.6m in compensation since 2005.
=== Medicine ===
Although the university roots are linked with medicine through the Sutherland Building being formerly the Medical School of Durham University, it has not offered medicine as a programme until recently. Northumbria has a joint medical programme through a partnership with St George's University of Grenada. As part of the programme the teaching hours are split between time spent within the Grenada and the United Kingdom.
== Academic profile ==
=== Reputation and rankings ===
Northumbria was named UK University of the Year by Times Higher Education in November 2022. It was ranked joint 23rd for research power in the UK, according to the results of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework, …
