Pitt Law signs accelerated admissions agreement with Bloomsburg University

The Cathedral of Learning

Pitt’s School of Law is once again offering qualified students from Bloomsburg University an Accelerated Law Admissions Program that will save them a full year of tuition and costs.

Pitt and Bloomsburg signed an agreement Jan. 22 that will allow Bloomsburg students who have earned at least 90 credits and have completed all major and general education requirements by the end of their junior year, to apply for law school admission, as if it was their final year of undergraduate study. Pitt Law will assess those students as if they were ordinary applicants, but it will waive the usual requirement to have completed a bachelor’s degree before admission. The student’s first year of law school will double as their senior year of college.

This allows those students to achieve a bachelor’s degree and a law degree in six years instead of seven. 

Said Pitt Law Dean Amy Wildermuth: “We have had several excellent Bloomsburg graduates as students at Pitt Law and this program will strengthen the terrific pipeline between our two schools. Most importantly, both Bloomsburg and Pitt are eager to find ways to help students reduce their overall debt. By decreasing the number of years a student spends in school, this program will have a significant and meaningful impact.”

Pitt Law already offers its Accelerated Law Admissions Program to students at the University’s Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences and its College of Business Administration. The program is also available for students from Washington & Jefferson College and Carlow University.