Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), Law School Transfer Data and Professional Identity Formation:

As shown in Table 1 below, the number of transfer students received by law schools in 2024 increased slightly from 1162 to 1194, the second smallest number of transfers in the last decade, but as a percentage of first-year students, it remained flat at 3.0%. …

TABLE 1 – Number of Transfers and Percentage of Transfers from 2014-2024

Table 2 below lists the top 15 law schools participating in the transfer market in descending order in Summer 2021 (fall 2020 entering class), Summer 2022 (fall 2021 entering class), Summer 2023 (fall 2022 entering class), and Summer 2024.

(Note that in Table 2, Table 4, and Table 5 the “repeat players” are bolded – those schools in the top 15 for all four years are in black, those schools in the top 15 for three of the four years are in blue.) Seven of the top 15 for 2024 have been on the list for taking in the largest number of transfers all four years: Columbia, Florida, George Mason, Georgetown, George Washington, Harvard, and Northwestern.  Four others have been on the list for three of the four years: Arizona State, NYU, UC Berkeley, and UCLA.  Table 2 also shows that for 2024, the concentration of transfers in the top 15 law schools for transfers remained near 50%, down just slightly from 2023.

TABLE 2 – Largest Law Schools by Number of Transfers from 2021-2024

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