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