Law schools fighting for students

“Now, financially wobbly law schools are facing plunging enrollment, strenuous resistance to five-figure student debt and the lack of job guarantees — not to mention the need to balance their battered budgets. To entice new students, some middle-tier schools [Arizona, Penn State, Roger WIlliams, Wayne State] have reduced tuition. ...

“The number of first-year law school students fell 11 percent in the fall of 2013 from the fall of 2012, part of a 24 percent decline in just three years, according to the ABA. The incoming class in 2013 stood at 39,675 students, the smallest first-year class since the 1970s, when law school enrollment began to rise substantially. About two-thirds, or 135, of the association’s accredited law schools, registered a drop in first-year enrollment that year — and little has changed this fall.”

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2014/12/ny-times-law-schools-engage.html


Link at maggiesfarm.

(I’m trying to come up with a good Henry 6 comment. “The first thing we do, let’s impoverish the law students.” Not very good.)