The Phoenix School of Law has announced today that it has received full accreditation from the American Bar Association (ABA). The Law School, which received ABA provisional accreditation in June 2007, is only the fourth for-profit law school in the country to be granted full accreditation and in the shortest time frame possible – less than six years.
The press release goes on to name the other two accredited toilet schools that Phoenix School of Law will join in Arizona:
There are only three fully accredited law schools in Arizona: Phoenix School of Law, the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University and the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona. PSL is Arizona’s only stand-alone law school – not affiliated with a university.
How did PSL become accredited? One reason, according to PSL propaganda, is the school has the highest Bar Exam passage rates in Arizona. I checked online and apparently PSL's bar passage rate for first timers is 83.3%.
The Phoenix School of Law demonstrated high benchmarks to win the approval of the ABA’s Accreditation Council, including achieving the highest Bar Exam passage rates in the State for February’s exam; a career placement rate of 97% within nine months of graduation; and receiving the Law School Admissions Council’s “2010 Diversity Matters Award” for its efforts to attract students from racial and ethnic groups underrepresented in the legal profession.However, in this Phoenix School of Law Official ABA Data document (PDF File), the numbers are even more far-fetched. The document states that 96.88% of Phoenix graduates pass the bar on the first try and that 88.2% find employment after 9 months -- 60% with law firms!
How much does this newly accredited law school cost?
Fall 10 - Spring 11 academic year, the ESTIMATED COA for Financial Aid purposes ONLY is as follows:
Full Time (13-16 credit hours each semester) Fall and Spring total
- Tuition: $34,396
- General Fee: $1,570
- SBA Dues: $70
- Books: $2,184
- Room and Board: $12,316
- Transportation: $4,116
- Personal/Misc: $7,664
- TOTAL: $62,316
Part Time (7-12 credit hours each semester) Fall and Spring total
Anyone gullible enough to believe the official ABA data will also believe that attending Phoenix is worth spending a grand total of $186,948. Luckily, if you are reading this and other scam bloggers on a regular basis, you are smart enough to realize that the ABA data and The Phoenix School of Law statistics are make-believe and that taking out $190,000 in student loans to attend ANY law school right now is absolute self-destruction. Putting an ABA accreditation on a toilet is like putting lipstick on a pig -- it's still a pig --and Phoenix is still a toilet.
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Regional accreditation is important for undergraduate schools because it provides the schools' students access to federally-guaranteed loans from Sallie Mae, etc.
ReplyDeleteDoes it work the same way for the ABA accreditation? Anyone know?
Excellent post and nice image! The University of Phoenix is garbage. Thank you for laying out the facts. This is one of the best ways to expose these festering toilets.
ReplyDeleteHow large will their class sizes be? If the sheer volume of overall Phoenix students is any indication, the law class sizes should be very large, as well. Yes, we need another 300-400 JDs per year flooding the Arizona - or national - market.
http://nalp.org/uploads/NatlSummaryChartClassof09.pdf
We just saw the NALP 2009 Class of 2009 Employment Report, which showed 44,000 JDs for 28,901 positions requiring a law license. Ivy League grads are having a difficult time finding legal work, and these Phoenix students are supposed to crack the legal market?!?!
http://lifesmockery.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/another-law-school-to-open-another-tragedy/
Look at this entry on Life's Mockery - detailing how PORTLAND-BASED Concordia University will open a new law school in Boise, Idaho in 2011. Also, that post mentions that the University of Idaho is planning on a new law school in Boise.
One is left to ask: What the hell did Boise do wrong to deserve this?!
Don't forget to toss in the opportunity cost, that is the income lost because you are a full time law student rather than a full time employee someplace, for three years. I would add a minimum of $100k to that number.
ReplyDeleteOpportunity cost is a much less valid argument nowadays than it was say 5 years ago.
ReplyDeleteNew college graduates aren't getting jobs. Period. This is one of the reasons the graduate schools are being flooded.
In addition, even if the new college graduate manages to get a job, the wages/salary have been deflated in recent years.
In order to get a opportunity cost of $100k, we're talking take-home income of at least 33k each year for three years. That's a pre-tax of well over 40k a year. That simply isn't the case for most of the kids enrolling into the third tier law schools at this time.
I think laws school scam bloggers should get together and start a law school. You could easily have your pick of professors among the countless unemployed top 10 graduates floating out there. You could call it the Atlantis School of Law (named for a mythical construct, much like the myth of full employment).
ReplyDeleteOptimistic video of the day.
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Okay, so it's pessimistic. But it just goes to show that the economy won't be improving much soon. In fact, it'll get worse long term.
Phoenix School of Law is not part of the so-called University of Phoenix. Not affiliated at all.
ReplyDeletePhoenix School of Law is almost exactly like University of Phoenix, both share about the same reputation and PSL is going to offer online classes. Bar passage rates in the same toilet they live in and graduating classes are only 70, even though incoming class size is 330+. It is wise to steer clear of this school for many reasons.
ReplyDeleteI love how you babies cry so much...........just get a job. Hell I went to Cooley and I am doing fine, whats your excuse? You allergic to effort?
ReplyDelete97 percent bar passage rate with down to earth people... don't be jealous....and pathetic.
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