Dean Allard of Brooklyn Law on Reducing Tuition

Dean Allard of Brooklyn Law is walking the walk on reforming (the cost) of legal education...

https://chronicle.com/article/Lowering-Law-School-Tuition/147215/

Comments

[terry malloy]

Knocking 15% off a *$54,000* yearly tuition is . . . not very meaningful.

That brings sticker price down to 45,850; 2011 levels.

[Anon]

Dean raises tuition, scam crowd cries foul. Dean lowers tuition and....scam crowd cries foul. Guess you cannot please some of the people any of the time.

[twbb]

Strawman, anon. Nobody is saying that reducing tuition isn't the right move, simply that the amount of the reduction should not be overstated. And it's not the "scam crowd" anymore; it's the "mainstream."

[terry malloy]

Fifty four thousand dollars.

[JayA]

At schools similar to Brooklyn, I know that the average discount off sticker is in the 25-35% range. I'm guessing this move did not really cost Brooklyn any revenue; they simply made public some of the discounts they were already offering with hope that the positive press would lead to more applications. It is an interesting move, but I don't think it was done for the students. If, instead, they cut tuition to under $20K, then perhaps they would get to a proper level for the jobs their grads are landing.