Maybe colleges should offer pre-law reality courses. First, teach about how expensive the law degree really is. Second, show movies comparing and contrasting the fun of law school with the stress and tedium of legal work, and third, create charts and tables displaying the employment statistics for outcomes awaiting law school graduates. – Ilene
75% Of Law Schools Need to Close?
Courtesy of Jr. Deputy Accountant
Somehow I stumbled into the world of jaded law school students – either current or former – and it isn’t pretty. At least with accounting you A) don’t have this cockfight over who went to the better school B) as much student loan debt and C) a better chance at a job even if it does mean you have to compromise your integrity a tad along the way. Wha?!
Someone employed in accounting (not to rub it in) should verify these numbers and confirm that they’re f*^ked up. Please.
Higher education. Pffft:
If the law schools are producing 45,000 new JDs annually and our nation only needs 19,000 or 16,245 new attorneys to replace the 1/40 that retire, then 57.8% or 63.9% of the law schools need to close, assuming that they all produce the same number of new JDs each year.
So, now we finally have a number to use–60%. As in, "Cut the number of law school seats by 60%." Or, "We need to close 60% of the law schools." However, since our nation already has a huge backlog of unemployed and underemployed-involuntarily-out-of-field attorneys, it would be better to cut the number of law schools by 75%.
The kids in Berkeley have been quiet about getting their fees jacked up since November of 2009 so I guess they figured out how to pay for it. I’ve dealt with some of them and no offense to UCB but they have some serious work to do for what they’re charging these kids. The least they can do is let them out knowing how to properly use the word your.
Close ’em. Open a f*^king book and don’t "pay" $65,000 a year to be told to open the wrong ones.
The education factory has failed. See also Low Loan Repayment Is Seen at For-Profit Schools via the NYT:
At some for-profit colleges, the repayment rates were startlingly low. For example, 33 of the 86 Corinthian Colleges’ Everest locations had repayment rates of less than 20 percent — and at several, the rates were less than 10 percent.
At the headquarters of the University of Phoenix, the nation’s largest for-profit education company, the repayment rate was 44 percent, compared with 38 percent at DeVry and 27 percent at Kaplan University, a unit of the Washington Post Company.
“I think this data could have a powerful effect on institutions and students,” said Terry Hartle, senior vice president at the American Council on Education. “No reasonable person will want to go to a school where only one in five students can pay back their student loans.”
I’m shocked, you mean the education they sell in between announcements of You are not the father! on daytime TV has a low repayment rate?!
