Soaring Debt Loads and Plunging Bar Pass Rates: Legal Education by the Numbers
The average debt load of law graduates has hit $145,500 according to figures compiled by the American Bar Association. Meanwhile, bar pass rates have sunk and far fewer people are applying to law school.
August 14, 2019 at 02:01 PM
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The American Bar Association has released a trove of statistics relating to the legal profession, and Law.com is spending this week poring over the data. Today, we’re focusing on the nation’s law schools. We’ve got charts breaking down the racial demographics of the student body; the amount of educational debt law graduates take on; the percentage of grads who pass the bar on the first try; and the size of the law school applicant pool.
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