What's going on in colleges can directly affect the future of law schools.
Currently, of course, 55% of laws schools are over-enrolled for the Class of 2024.
But given trends in higher education that could change.
There might be a significantly reduced number of college graduates, reducing the overall pool of applicants. Since law school student loan debt has become such a high-profile issue there could be an overall falloff in the interest in attending law school.
In addition, among those who do enroll the percentage of the females could be much larger than right now.
The Wall Street Street reports:
"At the close of the 2020-21 academic year, women made up 59.5% of college students, an all-time high, and men 40.5%, according to enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit research group. U.S. colleges and universities had 1.5 million fewer students compared with five years ago, and men accounted for 71% of the decline."
The reasons of the general decline in the number of those attending college have become almost cliches. They range from the risk of the investment not paying off in a good job to how the stress of education can trigger or worsen mental illness. However, there is still out there the reality: College graduates can earn more than a million dollars more than those without the degree.
The sources of the gender disparity are what most institutions of higher education don't welcome admitting or exploring in public. It's important to note that the phenomenon of males detaching from attending college goes across race, geography, and socio-economic status. Those aren't viewed as significant variables.
Some speculate that more women are entering college because of now-hardened affirmative-action policies. Given this development of female-dominated college classes, perhaps those gender nudges should be ditched. And males be targeted for nudges encouraging them to find a way to go to college and stay there long enough for a degree.
Another factor deterring males from pursuing college degrees could be COVID. Families financially reeling from that pandemic might have turned to the young males to pitch in and bring in money. They might have dropped out of college or decided not to apply.
In order to determine if both the lower enrollments and the higher percentage of females completing degrees are negative developments in society research has to be conducted. That would necessitate investigating the factors in an open manner.
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