Tuition at U.S. law schools continues to increase even as demand for law degrees declines. And the increases are particularly pronounced at the elite schools that send the most graduates into the nation’s largest law firms.
Columbia last year set annual tuition at $60,274 and Cornell Law School was not far behind. Altogether, 10 law schools charge more than $55,000 a year. It was just five years ago that Columbia, Cornell and Yale first crossed the $50,000 tuition mark. …
— Karen Sloan of the National Law Journal, reporting on the shocking sticker price of some of America’s most elite law schools, in a recent article on the priciest law schools in the country.
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(Later in the article, Columbia Law’s executive director of communications and public affairs explains why the school’s high tuition is worth it: “We believe that a Columbia Law School education is an excellent investment in a bright future.”)