Law schools’ tuition increases will range as high as 19 percent this fall, with private schools averaging a 4 percent bump and public schools increasing by an average 6 percent. The National Law Journal spoke with deans about the factors driving their schools’ tuition levels.
William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada
Professors at Boyd don’t dare to dream of pay raises this year. In fact, they will be lucky to have their pay restored after state legislators knocked about 5 percent off their compensation through furloughs and pay cuts in recent years, said dean Nancy Rapoport. The school has been bringing in fewer adjuncts and visiting professors. And for the first time, Boyd has frozen tuition. “We’ve taken funding cuts that forced our tuition up faster than we wanted in the past, so we thought we’d keep it stable if we could,” said former dean John Valery White, who handled tuition matters before becoming a university provost this summer.
