How does a school receive accreditation?
To receive accreditation, a school must demonstrate that the program complies with standards outlined by the American Bar Association and enforced by its Accreditation Committee and Council of the Section of Legal Education and the Bar. Schools with provisional accreditation are evaluated annually to determine whether they meet the standards and must provide a completed self-study, site-evaluation questionnaire, and any other information required by the Accreditation Committee and Council. The Accreditation Committee and Council periodically visit accredited schools to evaluate how well the schools satisfy the outlined standards. The following are samples of the review standards: • Faculty—Evaluation of the faculty’s role in executing the legal program, i.e., accessibility of faculty members to students, competency of faculty members, size of faculty, the professional environment of the law school, etc. • Admissions—Evaluation of the success of the school’s admissions process in attrac
