And the Winner for Most Expensive Law School Is

What's more, the Winner for Most Expensive Law School Is… What's more, the Winner for Most Expensive Law School Is… As indicated by the National Law Journal, Columbia beats out everyone else as the priciest graduate school in the nation. A year ago, educational cost at the school was $60,274. Coincidentallyor notColumbia is likewise #1 with regards to percent of graduates who go on to BigLaw. In 2014, 66.24% of its alumni were recruited by the country's biggest 250 law offices. Columbia was NLJ's #1 Go-To class (otherwise known as generally dearest by law office employing accomplices and enrollment specialists) in 2013 too. Congrats, Columbia Law class of 2014, on dishing out the most money for your degree. Fortunately, you are additionally the well on the way to appreciate the joy of first-year partner life at Skadden, Cravath and so forth. Is high educational cost legitimately identified with Columbia's gleaming work measurement? Different individuals from the Top 10 of NLJ's rundown BigLaw feeder schools (UPenn, UChicago, NYU, Harvard, Cornell, Northwestern, Duke, UVA, Stanford) are additionally in the taking off cost classification. The Go-To graduate schools all cost more than $55,000 per year (Cornell is the sprinter up for generally costly; 2014 educational cost was $59,360), and they are the main graduate schools that cross that edge. Their educational cost rates are likewise expanding at a higher rate. Somewhere in the range of 2011 and 2014 normal educational cost at the Go-To schools spiked practically 13%, from $49,907 to $56,292. Among all ABA-authorize schools, the expansion was barely short of 10% in those three years ($32,227 to $35,312). Clearly these educational cost measurements are not agent of what everybody really pays, because of budgetary guide contributions and imminent understudies' capacity to arrange in the event that they have help offers at various schools. In any case, at the greater part of the Go-To schools, over half of understudies address full cost. What's more, clearly the higher ticket cost is justified, despite all the trouble to them to amplify chances their post-graduate business choices. Official Director of Law School Transparency Kyle McEntee told the NLJ that this 'eagerness to pay model' is 'unconscionable in advanced education.' The entire circumstance does feel yucky; what is to quit rising sticker prices at the couple of establishments that can offer understudies a superior shot at BigLaw? How high will the cost of graduate school go? Insofar as a critical segment of enrollees keeps on following through on full cost, it's difficult to envision these educational cost rates leveling off at any point in the near future. Understand More: Which Law School Do Firms Love Best? A few People Are Paying Way Too Much for Law School (Bloomberg) An Elite Education's Going to Cost You (NLJ) (sub. req.) This graduate school charges more than $60K; educational cost is up 13% in 3 years at top BigLaw feeder schools (ABA Journal) Columbia is No. 1 on rundown of graduate schools with most elevated BigLaw position; Yale isn't among top 10 (ABA Journal) Follow Vault on Twitter @VaultCareers, @VAULTLAW, Instagram @VaultCareers and Facebook!