accredited law school
No correspondence or online law schools are accredited by the ABA or by state bar examiners. However, twelve correspondence and online law schools, although not accredited, are registered by the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California. Law schools are nationally accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA), and graduates of these schools may generally sit for the bar exam in any state. There are 203 ABA accredited law schools, divided between 200 with full accreditation and 3 with provisional accreditation. ABA-Approved Law Schools. Number of Law Schools. A total of 205 institutions are ABA-approved: 204 confer the first degree in law (the J.D. degree); the other ABA approved school is the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's School, which offers an officer's resident graduate course, a specialized program beyond the first degree in law. Concord Law School is part of Kaplan University, which is regionally accredited. Concord Law School is registered as a Distance Learning Law School with the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California. ABA-Approved Law Schools. ABA-Approved Law Schools. A total of 205 institutions are ABA-approved: 204 confer the first degree in law (the J.D. degree); the other ABA approved school is the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's School, which offers an officer's resident graduate course, a specialized program beyond the first degree in law. THE FIRST ONLINE LAW SCHOOL ACCREDITED BY THE HIGHER LEARNING COMMISSION. Concord Law School is part of Kaplan University, an accredited institution.* The law school is also registered as a Distance Learning Law School in the unaccredited category with the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California. Law school in the United States. In the United States, a law school is an institution where students obtain a professional education in law after first obtaining an undergraduate degree. Law schools in the U.S. issue the Juris Doctor degree (J.D.), which is a professional doctorate, and for most practitioners a terminal degree. Law school applicants are very familiar with the phrase “ABA–APPROVED”. In most states, a law school graduate cannot take the bar exam without having attended a school accredited by the ABA . Since passing the bar is a requirement for the practice of law almost everywhere, a degree from a school without ABA–accreditation is usually a ticket to nowhere. There are some exceptions. Grades, grading, and GPA curves. Grades in law school are very competitive. Most schools grade on a curve. In most law schools, the first year curve (1L) is considerably lower than courses taken after the first year of law school. Many schools use a median grading system, that can range from B-plus medians to C-minus medians. The new J.D. at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minn., is the first of its type to be approved by the ABA – and may open the door to other law schools to pursue similar degrees, especially if the experiment pans out. No fully online law schools are currently accredited by the ABA. The designation is significant because states typically allow students to sit for state bar exams only if they have degrees from ABA-accredited schools. California is an exception, allowing graduates of its online law schools to sit for the California bar exam.
Concord Law School