TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Paul Burch on Oct 23, 2023

Western State College of Law at Westcliff University in Irvine, California, may soon be the sole American Bar Association-accredited for-profit law school, reports Reuters. It currently enrolls 300 students. A decade ago, six for-profit law schools across the U.S. enrolled more than 5,000 aspiring attorneys. That number has since dwindled to about 900. Half of the for-profit law schools operating in 2013 have shuttered due to waning demand and accreditation problems. For-profit law schools, which rely on tuition revenue, were hit hard by a prolonged decline in law school enrollment between 2010 and 2017, when the number of first-year law students fell 21% nationwide, the news source reports.