"You'd be forgiven for wondering if Charlotte is cursed. Despite being America's ninth-largest city, the last time we put a full-time law school in Queen City, we needed to set up a food bank to support the students. Charlotte School of Law, an InfiLaw-run, for-profit law school, collapsed in 2017 amidst probation, bar passage carnage, and federal financial aid chaos."
"But, for better or worse, legal education is going to give Charlotte another shot. with Elon University announcing that it has applied to the ABA for approval to open a full-time law school on the campus of Queens University of Charlotte, kicking off in fall 2027 with 75 students. This marks an expansion of Elon's existing part-time program in Charlotte."
"Back in 2023, when Elon University first started making noise about expanding its law school presence in Charlotte, we had some reservations. While Elon boasts better academic credentials than the for-profit InfiLaw system, its main campus had also struggled with epically poor bar passage rates not too many years earlier, and we wondered whether a new program in Charlotte just shuffled the deck, replacing one troubled school with another."
Charlotte previously hosted Charlotte School of Law, an InfiLaw-run for-profit institution that collapsed in 2017 amid probation, catastrophic bar passage rates, and federal financial aid problems requiring a student food bank. Elon University has applied to the ABA to open a full-time law school on the Queens University of Charlotte campus, starting fall 2027 with an entering class of 75, expanding its existing part-time Charlotte program. Elon’s earlier bar outcomes included a 0.00% first-time North Carolina pass rate and roughly 46% across jurisdictions, but employment and two-year bar passage rates have since improved, with strong long-term employment and underemployment metrics and two-year passage consistently above 75%.
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