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CUNY School of Law

Long Island City, NY · City
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Graduation rate
32% typical
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Earnings 10 years on
$55,220 typical
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Accredited by American Bar Association
About

The CUNY School of Law in Long Island City is nationally renowned for its singular commitment to public interest law and its founding mission of "law in the service of human needs." Consistently ranked among the country's elite for clinical training, the school integrates immersive, hands-on legal representation directly into its core curriculum across areas such as human rights, immigration, and environmental justice. Its student body is exceptionally diverse, passionate, and collaborative, fostering an activist-minded campus culture deeply engaged with the local communities of New York City. Distinctively, CUNY Law offers one of the most affordable legal educations in the United States, explicitly preparing graduates to enter high-impact public service careers without the burden of overwhelming law school debt.


Wikipedia:The City University of New York School of Law is a public law school in New York City. It was founded in 1983 as part of the City University of New York and is the only publicly funded law school in the city. CUNY Law's dual mission is "to recruit and train outstanding public interest lawyers" and to "diversify the legal profession."

Location
Long Island City, NY, 11101 · City campus
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Nearest airport from college
LGA · New York LaGuardia
4 mi away
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Institutional
Resources
Endowment
$4M
Full-time faculty
63%
Faculty salary
$16,717/mo
Teaching spend
$30,471
per student
Classification
Carnegie type
Special focus — law

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