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University of Minnesota Law School

Minneapolis, MN


By the Numbers

Established: 1888
Number of Students: 780

Student Body Demographics:
Minority: 14.6%


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  • "One of the better state schools"
  • "Grounded, hard working"
  • "Surprisingly strong student body"
  • "Improving"



About this School

The University of Minnesota Law School has recently been working on overhauling its curriculum, and will integrate the initial changes beginning in 2009. Minnesota Law plans to include more interdisciplinary classes, such as a perspectives in law course that will revolve around different frames of legal analysis. Minnesota Law's academic strength ... Read More


Diversity

At the University of Minnesota, we believe that diversity in every sense promotes exceptional classroom experiences and encourages livelier, thought-provoking discussions. The Law School exists as a place that sharpens the minds and challenges the in ... Read More


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UMN has recently started playing the USNews rankings game by decreasing 1L class size (down to 220 from about 250). This has (sort of) raised the numbers of the entering classes, though the c/o 2012 was slightly down from c/o 2011. That said the ... Read more

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