This law school will give 100% scholarships to all of its students; it's not too late to apply
Updated: Indiana Tech Law School is offering 100 percent scholarships to all students enrolled there next year after failing to win provisional accreditation in June from the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.
Law dean Charles Cercone tells the ABA Journal that anyone enrolled in the law school as of January 2016 will get free tuition and fees for the entire 2015-16 school year, as well as for their remaining time at the school. That means those who enroll this fall will get a free legal education.
It’s not too late to apply for fall admission, Cercone says; the deadline is the first week of August.
The law school’s plan came to light in an article about its plans to reapply for provisional accreditation by KPCNews.com. TaxProf Blog noted Cercone’s scholarship disclosure, revealed in the 21st paragraph of the article published last week.
Cercone hopes to reapply for and win provisional accreditation before the school’s inaugural class graduates in 2016.
The scholarship offer “shows the university’s and the board of trustees’ support for the law school and their belief in the law school, and we hope that’s going to incentivize students to stay,” Cercone told KPCNews.com.
Cercone says he met with ABA representatives, and the law school is responding to the feedback, according to KPCNews.com. As an example, he said the ABA cited a need to provide more academic support and career placement help for students. The school has hired people for those positions, he said.
Indiana Tech Law School had planned to enroll 100 students when it opened in 2013 but the inaugural class had only 25 students. At the end of the second year, the school had 57 first- and second-year students.
“Obviously, in the posture we’re in this year, I don’t expect that to improve,” he told KPCNews.com. “We would like to have 20 students in the incoming class, and that’s what we’re shooting for.”
Updated at 12:30 p.m. to include Cercone’s comments to the ABA Journal.
