McGeorge School of Law

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University of the Pacific,
McGeorge School of Law
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Parent school University of the Pacific
Established1924 [1]
School type Private
Dean Michael Hunter Schwartz
Location Sacramento, California, US
Enrollment402 (Full-time) [1]
Faculty39 (Full-time)
102 (Total) [2]
USNWR ranking159th (tie) (2024) [1]
Bar pass rate86% (October 2020 first time takers) [3]
Website www.McGeorge.edu
ABA profile McGeorge School of Law

University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law is a private, American Bar Association (ABA)-approved law school in the Oak Park neighborhood of the city of Sacramento, California. It is part of the University of the Pacific and is located on the University's Sacramento campus.

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History

The school that eventually became McGeorge began in 1921 when University of Chicago Law School graduate [4] and Standard Oil executive Verne Adrian McGeorge began teaching law students at night in downtown Sacramento, California. After its formal establishment as a school in 1924, this Sacramento Law School, subsequently renamed in Professor McGeorge's honor as the "McGeorge School of Law", merged with the University of the Pacific in 1966 and came to be known as "Pacific McGeorge". [5] McGeorge became an integral part of the University of the Pacific in 1991. [5] The current dean of McGeorge School of Law is Michael Hunter Schwartz, formerly the dean of the William H. Bowen School of Law at University of Arkansas at Little Rock from 2013 to 2017. [5]

Accreditation, memberships, rankings

McGeorge has been approved by the American Bar Association (ABA) since 1969. [6] As an ABA approved law school, McGeorge graduates are eligible to sit for the bar examination in any American jurisdiction.

Memberships

McGeorge joined the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in 1974. [7] It has a chapter of the Order of the Coif, a national law school honorary society founded for the purposes of encouraging legal scholarship and advancing the ethical standards of the legal profession. [8]

Rankings and bar exam passage rate

In the 2023 U.S. News & World Report law school rankings, McGeorge School of Law was ranked 133. [1]

Of the McGeorge alumni who took the California bar for the first time in July, 2022, 57% passed. It ranked fifteenth among the eighteen ABA-accredited California law schools. [9]

Tuition costs

McGeorge's tuition and fees for full-time students during the 2019–2020 academic year cost $56,776 per year, while tuition and fees for part-time students was $42,418-47,824 per year. [10]

Academic programs

McGeorge offers degree programs leading to the award of the J.D. (Juris Doctor), the LL.M. (Master of Laws), the M.P.A. (Master of Public Administration), the M.P.P. (Master of Public Policy) and the J.S.D. (Doctor of Juridical Science) degrees.

McGeorge offers both a three-year day division program and four-year evening division program.

The first year curriculum at McGeorge consists of 27 units. [11] McGeorge law students must also complete 29 units of upper-level required curriculum. [12] Therefore, 56 units out of the 88 units to graduate are required courses. [13] All students take the same required courses.

Location

The McGeorge School of Law is located on University of the Pacific's Sacramento campus at 3200 Fifth Avenue in the Oak Park area of Sacramento, the capital of California. [14]

Journals and publications

Notable people

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

Present Dean and Dean Emeriti

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