53 Law Schools Accredited by the ABA Since 1970
And, a Decade of Added Capacity No Longer Needed? Yesterday, I linked to the ABA report showing the drop in applicants who actually enrolled in law school in 2013. By one blogger's calculation , enrollment (average per law school) has not been this low since the late 1960s. The ABA Journal reported: Law school enrollments nationwide are down 11 percent this year from last year and 24 percent from 2010, new figures show. The nation’s 202 ABA-accredited schools reported that 39,675 full- and part-time students were enrolled in a first-year J.D. program this fall, according to figures released Tuesday by the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. That’s a decrease of 4,806 students from the fall of 2012, when 44,481 students began their law school studies, and a decrease of 12,813 students from 2010, when an all-time high of 52,488 first-year students were enrolled in an ABA-accredited school. (Emphasis added.) In...