In Fall of 2022 Mitchell Hamline accepted 65% of the applications it received; 55% of those who were accepted, or 341 students, enrolled. The median LSAT for students starting in Fall 2022 was 152, while the median GPA was 3.33; 69% of students enrolled in the part time track. In total, the school has 1,211 students, 58% of whom are women, 7% of whom are Hispanic, and 8% of whom are Black.[9]
Annual tuition (including fees) for the 2022–23 academic year was $50,748 for full-time students and $36,900 for part-time students.[2]
The school was ranked by U.S. News & World Report between 147th and 193rd in the country (bottom 25%) in 2023.[10] Mitchell Hamline was ranked ninth in the nation in dispute resolution.[11]
Of 331 students who graduated in 2021, 41.7% found full-time long-term employment that requires a JD within nine months of graduation.[12] Of the 180 Mitchell Hamline graduates who took the Minnesota bar exam for the first time in 2021, 120 passed, for a 66.67% pass rate, 12.81% below the pass rate for all ABA approved law school graduates taking the Minnesota bar (79.48%), 13.43% below the pass rate for University of St. Thomas School of Law (80.1%) and 29.03% below the pass rate for the University of Minnesota Law School (95.7%).[13] Of the 309 Mitchell Hamline graduates who took any state's bar exam in 2021, only 59.55% passed.[14]
Mitchell Hamline's Health Law Institute offers specialized courses and experiential learning.[15]
Indian Law Program
The Indian Law Program emphasizes practical legal education with faculty who have spent their careers working with Indian tribes.[16]
Blended learning
In the early 2000s the American Bar Association's Task Force on the Future of Legal Education drafted a recommendation that law schools be permitted to experiment and innovate. At that time, Mitchell Hamline was still William Mitchell College of Law. The school's first cohort of hybrid students included 85 students, 14 of whom already held M.B.A.s, 5 held M.D.s, and three held PhDs.[17] The students ranged in age from 22 to 67 and represented 30 states and two countries.[18]
Student journals
Mitchell Hamline students can participate in several academic journals, including the flagship Mitchell Hamline Law Review; Cybaris, an Intellectual Property Law Review; and the Mitchell Hamline Journal of Public Policy and Practice.[19][better source needed]
Externships
The school offers more practical externships than any other school in the Upper Midwest.[20]
Notable alumni
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The law library on campus is named in honor of Warren E. Burger, the fifteenth Chief Justice of the United States, who graduated from one of the school's predecessor institutions, St. Paul College of Law.
