ATL’s Elie Mystal “Tuition Is Going Up at Notre Dame Law”

ATL Editor Elie Mystal writes about the bump in tuition at Notre Dame and other law schools. Given the current economic climate, many are asking "Tuition hike!...Sweet Mother of God...why?" As a matter of fact, you may have read that one Boston College law student asked for his tuition back.

(Elie Mystal--AboveTheLaw.com) There’s been a lot of buzz coming out of Notre Dame Law. No, the students are not being being pressed into service to defend the university from Declan Sullivan lawsuits. Instead, ND Law dean Nell Newton held a town hall meeting with the students to discuss the future of the university.

After the public meeting, Dean Newton met with some students, and they got into a discussion about the future of tuition at the law school. Depending on whom you talk to (and we’ve now talked to a bunch of people), Dean Newton suggested during this private meeting that there would be either (1) a significant, “dear God, what are you doing” tuition increase at the private law school, or (2) a modest tuition hike. We’ll let you decide whom to believe.

But one thing is for sure: tuition is going up. Notre Dame will not be holding the line with tuition, so current and prospective law students should be prepared to pay more, despite the weakness in the legal economy…

Let’s start with our tipsters. Last week and over the weekend, multiple sources contacted us claiming that Notre Dame would be instituting a whopping $9,000 tuition hike in the coming year (or years, again, depending on the source). A $9,000 bump would amount to nearly a 25% increase in the school’s tuition. The tipsters claim that Dean Newton told them this directly after the town hall meeting, and the rumor had such force that the Notre Dame Student Bar Association was sending around emails and planning a response.

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[bob]

This is disgusting. I wonder if law schools are trying to soak as much as they can from the student loan system before its inevitable collapse. This tuition increase makes no sense otherwise.

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