Southern New England-Turned-UMass Law School Gets 400 Applications
The number of would-be students seeking admission to the new University of Massachusetts School of Law is about double the number who applied last year before the school’s new incarnation.
More than 400 students have applied at the new law school at Dartmouth, and 127 students are now enrolled, according to stories by South Coast Today, the Associated Press and the Herald News.
State officials agreed in February to create the state’s first public law school through a merger of the unaccredited Southern New England School of Law with the University of Massachusetts.
Law school dean Robert Ward told the Herald News that “we’re pleased but not surprised” by the level of interest. “Our position all along had been that the UMass brand name would attract people and that appears to have been the case,” he said.
UMass had budgeted for 123 new students, but could admit as many as 140.
