because it was "so ungodly terrible" A Law School Was Finally So Ungodly Terrible It Shut Down | The Daily Caller
More than $20,000,000 in losses, and a grand total of three bar passes. Seven million bucks per successful graduate. What was the ABA thinking when they gave these people provisional accreditation?
Wow, so much going on in this story. Simply amazing that a Faculty member, albeit anonymously, has decided to speak about the Law School's practices. Secondly some major aspersions have been cast on Indiana Tech overall -- several quoted did not mince words -- "Indiana Tech is a Diploma Mill". Wow.
Over the next decade we'll see this more often. A few of the standalone schools will close. Those that are attached to universities will draw WAY down. Then the cycle will probably start all over again. The cost of tuition is just wayyyyy to high. The market is "turning around" but the pay hasn't grew to meet tuition.
It's a sucker's deal. So many investigations finding people with degrees from nowhere or next to nowhere holding similar jobs with similar pay to people who went to the big name brand ivory tower. Or, worse yet, they bought their degree from a diploma mill. LinkedIn is FULL of phony degree holders with good jobs. I feel like any degree that costs more than what you'd make as a yearly salary with experience in its field is too much, with the exception of jobs in medicine and hazardous materials since the people in those fields need to really know what they're doing or a lot of people die.
I'm convinced that if a law school is affiliated with a major college/university, the ABA almost rubber-stamps them for provisional accreditation. For many years, the Southern New England School of Law operated independently with regional accreditation, and tried many times to be ABA-accredited, but were turned away every time. From almost the moment that they were bought and absorbed into the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth and became the University of Massachusetts School of Law, the ABA granted provisional accreditation. Same buildings, same facilities, same faculty, same curriculum.
