Jul 24, 2014
Applications US law schools are down 8 per cent, following even greater declines the two previous years, according to new data published by the Law School Admission Council. The total drop in applications since 2010
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May 28, 2014
A new UK business offers graduates assistance with finding a training contract, in exchange for 3% of their first year's salary.
Employ Ability says that they are staffed by experts in the admissions process, and are
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Mar 23, 2014
The dean of US school Appalachian School of Law is laying off law professors as part of a plan to reduce class sizes.
Dean Lucy McGough said that the school is seeing a decline in applications, and plans to cut many
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Dec 6, 2013
The shrinking candidature for US law schools seems finally to be having an impact on the tuition numbers, with the University of Iowa College of Law announcing that it is cutting tuition by 16.4 percent for JD students
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Nov 15, 2013
The predicted bursting of the US law school bubble is under way, according to Professor Paul Campos, who estimates that 80 to 85 percent of law school are operating at a loss right now. The significant drop in law school
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Apr 19, 2013
Standard & Poor’s has downgraded the outlook for Albany Law School, taking the school down from BBB/positive to BBB/stable. The credit rating agency cited lower enrollment and applications, and a resultant 2 per cent
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Mar 22, 2013
As law school applications decline and schools struggle to stock their programs with bright students, many schools are working hard to protect their ‘yield rate’ which is the proportion of admitted students who
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Nov 25, 2012
October is usually a busy month for the LSAT - the Law School Admission Test, but last month the number of people taking the test dropped 16.4 percent from the year before, reaching its lowest level since 1999.
The
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Oct 9, 2012
Bucking the trend of US law schools seeing less applications from prospective students is Kansas University School of Law, which saw applications increase by19 per cent for 2012.
The school still hasn’t garnered the
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Aug 23, 2012
The average tuition for law school in the US has increased by more than double the rate of inflation, despite a drastic decline in the number of applicants over the past two years.
Average tuition and fees at private
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Mar 18, 2011
Law school application numbers are finally beginning to reflect the poor job prospects for graduates, dropping 11.5 per cent to 66,876 over the past year. The Law School Admission Council Inc says that these figures
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Jan 27, 2010
As the recession increases interest in graduate programs nationwide, the number of applications to Cornell Law School had jumped an unprecedented 52% by last Wednesday. Administrators, who attribute the gain to growing
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