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There are 199 ABA accredited law schools, along with one law school provisionally accredited by the ABA.
Attending a non ABA approved school will greatly limit career opportunities in law. Law schools without accreditation typically have lower bar passage rates, so there are no guarantees that attending a non ABA approved law school will lead to a legal career.
There are a number of law schools that have not been approved by the American Bar Association. Some states permit graduates of these schools to take the bar examination or will admit to their bars a graduate of a non-ABA-approved law school who has been admitted to the bar of another state.
USNWR Rank | Law School | Median LSAT |
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1 | Yale Law School | 173 |
2 | Harvard Law School | 173 |
3 | Stanford Law School | 171 |
4 | Columbia University Law School | 171 |
TIER 3: Rich kids are likely to consider these insufficiently prestigious. Others should not even apply without a fee waiver and should not enroll without a large discount, probably at least 50% off; even then, the risk of a bad outcome would loom large. California—Berkeley.
There are 200 law schools currently accredited by the American Bar Association, the Chicago-based national professional organization of the legal field. Any graduate of one of these law schools who has met the eligibility requirements may sit for the bar examination in any state.
Although it is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (as part of Trinity International University) and approved by the State Bar of California, it is not accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA).
These states are Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
The ABA has yet to accredit any law school with courses offered entirely online. … In New York, California, 29 other states and the District of Columbia, you can sit for the bar exam with a law degree from a non-ABA accredited school.
While it is clear that many top law schools are accepting students who have not completed the LSAT, that is not the only reason some people choose note to take it. In fact, the desire for students to skip this test helped to push schools to accept alternatives in the first place.
Monterey College of Law (MCL) is a private, non-profit law school founded in 1972 in Monterey, California. The school is accredited by the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California but not the American Bar Association.
T1, T2, etc. refer to the tier of law school. T1 is typically thought of as the top 50 ranked schools. T2 is the second tier, so on and so forth.
What Is a Tier 2 Law School? Tier 2 law schools might refer to law schools that are not part of the T14 law school list. They are the schools that are ranked after the number 14 school on the list. For instance, the number 15 law school on the list could be in tier 2.
It’s not surprising that law grads from top-50 schools have better job prospects than graduates from less prestigious law schools. … It turns out that those recent employment stats suggest that there are really only 50 schools worth going to — at least if you want to get a job after you graduate from law school.
Elon University School of Law | |
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USNWR ranking | 148-194 |
Bar pass rate | 82% (February 2021 first-time takers in North Carolina) |
Website | law.elon.edu |
And the ABA (American Bar Association) does not accredit any 100 percent online law school or master’s degree. The ABA is in the middle of a review of its accreditation standards, including “Standard 306,” which applies to distance education.
The University of La Verne’s current ABA-accredited program of legal education remains ABA accredited and in operation. … The College of Law is committed to ensuring that its current students will graduate with an ABA-degree pursuant to an ABA-approved teach-out plan.
A teach-out plan for Thomas Jefferson School of Law, allowing limited accreditation until the end of the spring 2023 term, has been approved by the council of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. … 8, Thomas Jefferson’s ABA accreditation will cover current law students and transient students.
Although California is home to some ABA-accredited law schools, the State Bar’s Committee of Examiners (CBE) may accredit law schools that haven’t received ABA accreditation.
Abraham Lincoln University is accredited by the Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC). The DEAC is listed by the U.S. Department of Education as a recognized accrediting agency and is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). … Call 213-252-5100.
Only four states—California, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington—allow potential law students to skip law school entirely. Three others—Maine, New York, and Wyoming—require some law school experience, but they allow an apprenticeship to substitute for one or two years of law school.
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Harvard Law School accepts either the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) or the Graduate Record Exam (GRE). We do not have a preference for either exam.
Your choice is easy—the GRE is your test! The LSAT doesn’t have math questions at all, whereas they make up 1/3 of the overall GRE. No question about it: the GRE is harder than the LSAT for math.
Admissions Statistics | 2020 | 2017 |
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LSAT Score (Median) | 173 | 173 |
LSAT Score (25th-75th percentile) | 170-175 | 170-175 |
GPA (Median) | 3.90 | 3.86 |
GPA Range (25th-75th percentile) | 3.80-3.97 | 3.75-3.96 |