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Fast Facts

The Quinnipiac University School of Law offers a juris doctor (JD) degree, a joint JD/MBA degree and an LLM in health law at its technology-rich, architecturally handsome facility located on Quinnipiac's Mount Carmel Campus in the shadow of Sleeping Giant Mountain.

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Campus
Academics
Student Body
Costs & Financial Aid
Student Life
Everything Else

Campus
Location: We’re in Hamden, Conn., uniquely situated near New York, Boston, Hartford and New Haven, at the heart of one of the largest concentrations of private law firms, corporate headquarters and financial institutions in the country. See directions...

Buildings: The School of Law Center is an architecturally magnificent, state-of-the-art learning environment covering 130,000 square feet with wireless Internet access throughout. Its stately Grand Courtroom is sometimes used by the Connecticut Supreme Court. The Mount Carmel Campus has more than 50 other buildings.

Acres: 212, Mount Carmel Campus; see campus map

Academics
Degree programs:
JD; JD/MBA; LLM in health law. More...

Concentrations: civil advocacy and dispute resolution, criminal law and advocacy, family law, health law, intellectual property, tax. More…

Externships: corporate counsel, criminal justice, family and juvenile law, judicial, legal services, legislative, mediation, public interest, field placement II. More ...

In-house clinical programs: civil, tax, advanced, evening, defense appellate, prosecution appellate. More…

Other learning opportunities: summer study in Ireland, other opportunities to study abroad.

Full-time faculty: 37; adjunct: 35 per semester

Student-to-faculty ratio: 10 to 1; average class size: under 25

Student Body
Enrollment: 418

  • First-year profile: 45 percent female, 55 percent male; 14 percent students of color; average age: 25.
  • LSAT scores:
    - Day division program (full time) LSAT (25th–75th percentiles): 156 / 160
    - Evening division program (part time) LSAT (25th–75th percentiles): 151 / 154

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Costs & Financial Aid
Tuition: Full-time students: $40,000 ($20,000 per semester). Part-time students: $1,400 per credit.

Financial aid: Free Application for Federal Student Aid available. Admitted applicants also automatically considered for merit-based grants and scholarships that range from $3,000 per year to full tuition. More about paying for law school...

Student Life
Student organizations:
More than 25 clubs plus the opportunity to create your own

Housing: Quinnipiac University offers help to first-year law students seeking off-campus housing via an on-line housing forum and roommate locator.

Everything Else
President: John L. Lahey. More about Quinnipiac University’s leadership...

Dean:Brad Saxton. Read his welcome message…

Accreditations: Fully approved by the American Bar Association and a member of the Association of American Law Schools.

Alumni: 5,286 in 48 states. More about law alumni…



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