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Special Report - Law - September 13, 2012
Drop in enrollment leads to law school lull
Inland Northwest schools say they choose maintaining standards over filling seats

By Mike McLean
Of the Journal of Business

Jane Korn, dean of Gonzaga University's School of Law, says law schools have had enrollment down cycles before, but the current downturn is larger than ones in the past.
Jane Korn, dean of Gonzaga University's School of Law, says law schools have had enrollment down cycles before, but the current downturn is larger than ones in the past.
—Staff photo by Mike McLean
The two Inland Northwest law schools—Gonzaga University School of Law and the University of Idaho College of Law—are enrolling fewer students into their three-year programs this year than in recent years, due largely to a declining number of applicants.

For the coming academic year, the Gonzaga University has enrolled 132 law students from a pool of 1,157 applicants.

"That's lower than we typically have," says Susan Lee, director of admissions at the Gonzag...


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