Northeastern University School of Law

Northeastern University School of Law is a law school in Boston, Massachusetts, originally founded in 1898. The law school flourished throughout the early 20th century, but limited resources forced the school to close in 1956. It reopened in 1968 organized around a cooperative education program, which stressed practical experience in legal settings as the best way to learn the art and craft of lawyering. This experience-based approach to legal education is increasingly seen as the best way to educate lawyers. The school has a positive reputation for its graduates' ability to perform and... handle significant legal work early in their career. Due to its practice-based approach to legal education, the school is able to select from a pool of highly qualified applicants. For the class of 2014, the school received 3,674 applications and enrolled 218 students with a median LSAT score of 162 and a median GPA of 3.48. More than half of the student body are women and more than 25 percent are minorities. The school's ranking in U.S. News and World Report has increased from 94th in 2009 to 71st in 2011. The school's ranking then dropped to 76th in 2012.
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