Pre Law have the story and it looks like things are getting worse.
The average debt among law students enrolled in 2019-20 averaged $27,000, according to AccessLex Institute’s newest update to the Legal Education Data Deck.
Of the law students in 2019-20, 22% were first-generation students and 37% were former Pell Grant recipients.
Compared to other 2020 graduate degree recipients, law graduates borrowed, on average, less for their undergraduate but more for their graduate education. The amount law students borrowed for graduate school exceeded all other graduate and professional degree recipients except medical students.
The proportion of J.D. recipients who borrowed for law school increased by five percentage points between 2016 and 2020.
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