<p>Because they’re cheaper.</p>
<p>[American</a> college students seek 4-year degrees overseas - chicagotribune.com](<a href=“http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-irish-colleges-recruit-20120415,0,6268582.story]American”>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-irish-colleges-recruit-20120415,0,6268582.story)</p>
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What is she going to do with that? Loyola law school is ranked #67. She will be another unemployed law student. Unless she is getting a full ride at the law school, I would say the money would have been better spent at a better known US college. Of course, if she wanted to work in UK/Ireland, it would be a different story.</p>
<p>Yeah- let us know how Loyola Law works out for her in the current market!</p>
<p>.??? No one who ever graduated from Loyola Law ever got a job in their field… really?..</p>
<p>@oldfort</p>
<p>Are you being serious?
It’s not impossible to get a job after Law School if you didn’t attend a T-14 Law school.
I know many who went to law schools that were ranked much lower and are currently working @ law firms and making a decent amount. It’s quite ridiculous to assume that someone who attended a lower rank grad school will be a failure after graduation. </p>
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<p>Have you people not been reading the news? The schools like Loyola, DePaul, Temple et al which used to be fine regional/local schools are turning out lawyers who can’t get jobs. Only the top grads are getting jobs unless they were already connected somehow. I am a lawyer and have a kid who was considering law school but changed him mind due to the dismal state of the legal economy. Oldfort and I are not putting those schools down, but things are no longer like they used to be. The market has been shrinking so drastically that even many Vanderbilt law grads did not get jobs!</p>
<p>Many of the jobs the grads from the Loyola tier schools get are document review or contract jobs paying under $30 an hour with no benefits. The students have a lot of loans to repay. It is not a good picture.</p>
<p>This is what they wrote about the Loyola law school back in 2007:
“No, the major concern for students coming out of Loyola Chicago with newly-minted JDs is not bar passage but rather securing employment. At the time of graduation in 2007, only a little more than half of students (54%) had jobs secured. After 9 months, when bar results are typically in, this figure jumps to only 90%.”
This is just about employement rate, not about salary. Law school isn’t exactly cheap. Unlike medical schools, it does matter where one went to school. Loyola is a regional school competing with Chicago, Notre Dame, Michigan, WUSTL, and many big state schools around that area.</p>
<p>Cross posted with MOWC.</p>
<p>D2 is considering law school, and we are keeping a very close watch on the market.</p>
<p>These students only looked at US schools that would cost 50-60K ? Thats not very prudent.</p>
<p>They actually have the cost wrong in this article - they say that she will pay $26,000 per year for Cambridge. It’s actually about 26000 pounds per year. (which is just over $41000 right now.) It’s still cheaper than a comparable US school, even with some financial aid.) Students studying at Oxford or Cambridge can take Stafford Loans and parents can get Parent Plus loans. Cambridge does also have some tuition assistance for Americans but I believe it’s quite limited.</p>
<p>You just can’t trust the press sometimes.</p>
<p>t/j, but add me to the list advising against law school these days. I just had this conversation with DS, who told me he was considering it. There’s simply a glut of lawyers out there, across the board. While some large firms have started hiring again from top 20 law schools, even those jobs are scarce and difficult to come by. I have several law grads interning for free in my office now, who have been unable to find work - some coming up on a year out of school, some two. These are bright people who graduated from top 20-30 schools.</p>
<p>I went to university in the UK because it was cheaper for me than anywhere but my instate options in the US. I’ll be graduating in 3 years only two courses short of a masters degree, and I was accepted nearly everywhere I applied in the US and Europe for a PhD in maths (with funding everywhere). It was a great option for me, but it’s not for everyone.</p>