Poor verdict for Charlotte's law school, so far
Published September 13, 2013
by Doug Clark, Greensboro News-Record, September 12, 2013.
What's the largest law school in North Carolina by enrollment?
Not Carolina, Duke or Wake Forest. Not N.C. Central, Campbell or Elon.
It's Charlotte.
It also may be least successful at this point in its short history, according to WFAE's Julie Rose:
"Employment data for the class of 2012 show just 45 of 234 graduates got work in the government or public sectors and most of them found only part-time, short-term positions. Nearly 10 percent of the class found no work at all. The rest split between working for a small law firm or a business – often in jobs that don’t even require a law degree.
"In fact, barely half of the Charlotte School of Law Class of 2012 got a job that required passing the bar. Graduates of North Carolina’s other private law schools fared much better."
Also:
"Charlotte School of Law is the state’s only private, for-profit law school. And while its students pay about as much in tuition as those at highly-ranked Wake Forest, Charlotte graduates have a much tougher time finding jobs that pay enough to cover the debt."
Not a great advertisement.
September 13, 2013 at 1:53 pm
TP Wohlford says:
If you think you're smart enough to be a lawyer, you should be smart enough to understand that the market for lawyers is saturated, and is expected to get worse. You need to be smart enough to know that $100k or more in student loans is NOT manageable on what most noob lawyers make. You need to be smart enough to know the difference between a top-tier law school and a "tier 4" law school when it comes to getting hired and passing the bar exams.
