This Fall semester, the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law will welcome its strongest academic credentialed class in the last 20 years. This class also includes a 31% increase in class size from the previous year.
“This is, quite frankly, incredible. Especially in today’s highly competitive law school environment,” said Jim Strickland, David Pickler Dean at the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. “I could not be prouder of our admissions and recruitment team, led by the recently retired Dr. Sue Ann McClellan and her staff, as well as the strong amount of support we received from our alumni in the form of financial contributions to our scholarships over the past year. That financial support helped increase our three-year scholarship offerings to incoming first-year students by over 30%!”
In addition, 73% of this first-year class received a scholarship and 23% are first-generation college graduates. The class represents 46 different undergraduate institutions from 11 different states.
Other Memphis Law accolades include:
- The No. 1 Best Law School Building and Facility in the Nation (five-time winner); “PreLaw Magazine/National Jurist Magazine”
- A 94% Overall Employment Rate for Class of 2024 Graduates
- Top 20 Moot Court Room Program; “PreLaw Magazine”
- Top 50 for Experiential Learning and Clinical Training Programs Among Public Universities; “U.S News & World Report”
- Top 55 Health Law Program Among Public Universities; “U.S. News & World Report”
- A Best Law School for Trial Advocacy; “PreLaw Magazine”
The Law School’s location in downtown Memphis offers proximity to experience for students and is surrounded by and in walking distance of Memphis City Hall, the U.S. District Court, the Memphis Bar Association, Memphis Area Legal Services, and City of Memphis and Shelby County courts.
Founded in 1962, the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law has a network of more than 6,000 alumni across the state and country who work for top law firms, government agencies and private and public sectors, including nonprofits. One in four judges in Tennessee graduated from Memphis Law.
“Combined with our most recent graduating class recording a 94% employment rate, we are ideally situated to have exciting benchmarks at both ends of our student’s law school journeys. I am excited to see the continued growth, both in terms of the size and success, of our future classes of students, as I know we will continue on this trajectory with the continued support and enthusiasm of our Memphis Law community,” Strickland said.
