The 2024 edition of the popular guide includes Elon University’s downtown Greensboro law school with student praise for faculty mentors who “are what make this school shine.”
Elon University School of Law has been named for the ninth consecutive year in a college guide that showcases the nation’s best law schools.
The Princeton Review listed Elon Law in its 2024 guidebook of “The Best 168 Law Schools,” which features profiles that are annually updated with information about admission selectivity, academic experience, financial aid, campus life, and post-graduate employment.
With a focus on learning by doing, Elon Law in downtown Greensboro integrates traditional classroom instruction with course-connected, full-time residencies-in-practice that pair students with judges and practicing attorneys during their second year of study.
Elon Law’s approach is accomplished in 2.5 years, which provides distinctive value by lowering tuition and permitting graduates early entry into their legal careers. Since the adoption of its full-time accelerated program, student loan debt at graduation has been cut by nearly a third, and strategic investments in faculty and staff have led to ultimate bar pass and post-graduate career placement rates that have often ranged from 87-90%.
The Elon Law Flex Program, an in-person, part-time program of legal study in Charlotte, North Carolina, begins this fall at Elon University’s Charlotte campus.
“Every school that made our Best Law Schools for 2024 lists offers outstanding academics,” said Rob Franek, editor-in-chief of The Princeton Review, a leading tutoring, test prep, and college admissions services company founded in 1981.
Student Reflections as Reported in 2024 by The Princeton Review
- Professors “are what make this school shine” and are “approachable and interested in teaching.”
- Elon Law features “faculty [who] strongly support our open discussions about the issues that marginalized communities in our school face.”
- “The residency program is a tremendous asset to this school,” and students are able to influence their placements based upon their own special interests in specific areas of the law.
- Students say that Elon Law is “well-organized for planning coursework and facilitating student connections with jobs and internships” and that faculty “really take the time to hire quality professors … who are experts in their field.”
- The librarians “are the best [in] the business” because they “are passionate, patient, and precipitant in academic success.”
“Helping students to pursue their dreams of being a lawyer is at the heart of all we do,” said Elon Law Dean Zak Kramer. “I’m proud of Elon Law faculty and staff who support that important mission. And from what students have shared with The Princeton Review, it’s evident they, too, recognize our ongoing efforts to prepare them for accomplished careers and lives with meaning.”