ABA Journal, Will the Prestige of Purdue University Help Concord Law?:
As Concord Law School pursues an Indiana Supreme Court rule change so that its graduates can sit for the state bar exam, the fully online institution recently announced it will have a new name, Purdue Global Law School, starting in November. Currently, the state only allows graduates of ABA-accredited law schools to take the test.
Purdue University’s acquisition of the law school, which had been part of the for-profit Kaplan University, was finalized in 2018. Considering the university’s academic respect, the new name will help the law school, says Martin Pritikin, its dean. Also, its current name, Concord Law School at Purdue Global, is a little wordy, he adds. …
Average annual tuition is $12,420, according to the law school’s website. Comparatively, annual tuition is $68,054 at Notre Dame Law; and for in-state students, it is $36,950 at Maurer and $31,604 at McKinney.
Pritikin sees Concord Law as a school of opportunity. He doesn’t plan to compete for slots in the top 50 of U.S. News & World Report’s law school rankings, or even its top 100. “There are already schools that fill that niche. A big pitch of our petition is we are not looking to horn in Indiana University’s action,” he says.
In contrast, other law schools (Michigan State, Texas A&M) that have changed their name to major universities have risen dramatically in the U.S. News rankings, driven in part by huge increases in their peer reputations:
Robert L. Jones (Northern Illinois), The U.S. News Law School Academic Reputation Scores, 1998-2022
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