ABA offers law school data in new format

Information reported by American Bar Association-approved law schools is now publicly available at no charge in online spreadsheets.

The ABA’s law school accrediting body says the spreadsheets enable easy searching, sorting, school-by-school comparisons and analysis.

The information is available at www.abarequireddisclosures.org.

The spreadsheets, developed by the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, will improve the accessibility of information for prospective law students, pre-law advisors, media outlets and others who study and write about legal education.

Standard 509 of the ABA’s Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools requires law schools each year to disclose data in 11 categories, including  admissions, tuition and living
costs, financial aid, faculty demographics and employment outcomes.

Schools are required to post their information reports on their websites. The ABA also posts each school’s report on the website of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.