Texas Wesleyan University School of Law
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1989 |
| Dean | Thomas W. Mitchell |
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Academic staff
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97 |
| Students | 484 |
| Location | Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. |
| Website | law |
Texas A&M University School of Law (formerly Texas Wesleyan University School of Law) is a public, ABA-accredited law school located in downtown Fort Worth, Texas. The law school is a member of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and offers the juris doctor degree through its full-time, part-time, and evening programs.
Founded in 1989, the law school began as the Dallas/Fort Worth School of Law in Irving, Texas, then became the Texas Wesleyan University School of Law in 1992. On June 26, 2012, Texas A&M University reached an agreement with Texas Wesleyan University whereby it would take over ownership and operational control of the School, to be renamed the Texas A&M University School of Law. The agreement was finalized on August 12, 2013, with Texas A&M purchasing the school and all its physical and licensing assets for $73 million.
The school confers the Juris Doctor degree upon students who satisfactorily complete a 90-hour course of study, rigorous writing requirement, experiential learning requirement, and a 30-hour pro bono requirement. For February and July 2015, the school had a passage rate of 74.43% on the Texas Bar Exam, placing it fifth among Texas law schools behind University of Texas (87.13%), Southern Methodist University (84.48%), Texas Tech University (81.73%), and Baylor University (80.73%), while scoring ahead of University of Houston (73.76%), South Texas College of Law (70.64%), St. Mary's University (61.08%), and Texas Southern University (57.97%).
Since the school's acquisition by Texas A&M University, it has increased the size of the faculty by 30% while reducing the size of incoming classes for an 8.4:1 student-faculty ratio in the 2016-17 academic year. It also boosted the overall scholarship budget by 65%.
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