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#Loyola Law School, Los Angeles - TLS wiki

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Tuition and fees

Students at Loyola should be prepared to spend a considerable amount on their education. The school reports on their website that full-time tuition was $47,750 for full-time students and $31,975 for part-time students. With living expenses hovering a bit under $30,000 (Los Angeles isn't cheap!), students can end up spending roughly $77,000 a year to attend Loyola.

To help combat this debt, the school offers a number of its students grants and scholarships. In the school's most recent ABA data. 368 out of 1,287 total students received grant money. Fewer part time students received aid (only 34 out of 295) than full time students (334 out of 992). For those who are selected to receive aid, the school is quite generous: 147 received less than half tuition, 193 received half to full tuition, and 28 received full tuition plus an additional stipend. The median grant amount was $20,500 for full time students and $16,500 for part time students.

The school determines scholarship money through its "merit plus" system. Dean Roberts explains:

As far as our methodology, we use a system we call "merit plus". The main factors (but not exclusive) include LSAT scores and undergraduate grades. There is a "plus" component of other extraordinary accomplishments, interesting background and experience that can have an important bearing on an applicant receiving an award.

Scholarship programs include the Fritz B. Burns Scholarships, which offer students full tuition plus an additional stipend, and the Public Interest Scholars Program. To find out more about these programs, click here. To read a TLS article about funding your legal education, click here. Also, if you plan on pursuing a career in public interest, click here to learn about the new program called Public Service Loan Forgiveness (or PSLF). Finally, to read about a new payment option for federal student loans called IBR (or Income-Based Repayment), click here.

The numbers

In the school's most recent ABA report. the following data was given. To learn more about preparing for the LSAT from some of the highest scorers on TLS, click here.