Students had an average of $50,000 in loans a year.” About 700 students were enrolled at the law school as of last fall, and from the fall of 2010 to the spring of 2016, the school received $337.1 million in federal student loans for tuition and student living expenses, according to Law School Transparency, a nonprofit that tracks data about the nation’s law schools. As it battles to stay open, Charlotte School of Law is blaming its problems on the federal government, the law school accreditation body and disgruntled former students who have sued the school. For-Profit Charlotte Law School Is Subject of North Carolina Inquiry - By ELIZABETH OLSONMAY 12, 2017 Charlotte School of Law, already struggling to remain open, is now being investigated by North Carolina’s attorney general. Many law schools in the United States are enduring rocky times — the number of students pursuing law degrees nationwide has fallen sharply in the past several years — but few have teetered as publicly as Charlotte. Charlotte School of Law students, citing the school’s failure to make the accreditation problems public, have filed individual lawsuits and suits seeking class-action status in which they accuse the school of breach of contract, among other accusations. A short time later, the federal Education Department cut off loans to current students because, it said, the school had made “substantial misrepresentations” to students about its compliance with accreditation standards.
