Interest in juris doctor degrees has waned during the past two years, but the news for law schools isn’t all bad: The number of students in non-JD programs has increased by 39 percent since 2005, according to figures released Dec. 21 by the American Bar Association.
By contrast, the number of first-year students enrolled in JD programs fell by 8 percent during that same period. ABA-accredited law schools this year enrolled 11,067 non-JD studentsrepresenting approximately one-quarter of the 44,518 first-year JD students.
