Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Penn State Dickinson Law
- Accreditation
- ABA approved since 1931
- Institution type
- Public
- J.D. formats
- Full-time J.D.
- Median LSAT
- 159
- Median GPA
- 3.71
- Resident tuition
- $60,048
- First-year class
- 215
- Bar-required jobs
- 83.4%
- First-time bar passage
- 87.6%
J.D. program formats
- Full-time J.D.
- Offered. Full-time first-year students were reported to the ABA.
- Part-time J.D.
- Not on the ABA Council’s part-time list.
- Distance-education J.D.
- Not on the ABA Council’s distance-education J.D. list.
Formats come from the ABA Council’s published lists, not from the school’s marketing. What each format means
Programs published by the school
Clinics and field placements
Supervised legal work with real clients or in real legal settings, for credit.
Clinics (11)
- Arts, Sports and Entertainment Law ClinicSchool page for Arts, Sports and Entertainment Law Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Center for Immigrants' Rights ClinicSchool page for Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Children's Advocacy ClinicSchool page for Children's Advocacy Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Civil Rights Appellate ClinicSchool page for Civil Rights Appellate Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Community Law ClinicSchool page for Community Law Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Entrepreneur Assistance ClinicSchool page for Entrepreneur Assistance Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Family Law ClinicSchool page for Family Law Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Intellectual Property ClinicSchool page for Intellectual Property Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Medical-Legal Partnership ClinicSchool page for Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Rural Economic Development ClinicSchool page for Rural Economic Development Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Veterans and Servicemembers Legal ClinicSchool page for Veterans and Servicemembers Legal Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Externships and field placements (1)
- Semester-in-Practice ProgramsSchool page for Semester-in-Practice Programs (opens in a new tab)
Centers and institutes
Research and program centers that organize a school's teaching, scholarship and events in a field.
- Antiracist Development InstituteSchool page for Antiracist Development Institute (opens in a new tab)
- Center for Agricultural and Shale LawSchool page for Center for Agricultural and Shale Law (opens in a new tab)
- Center for Excellence in Energy and Environmental LawSchool page for Center for Excellence in Energy and Environmental Law (opens in a new tab)
- Center for Government Law and Public Policy StudiesSchool page for Center for Government Law and Public Policy Studies (opens in a new tab)
- Center for the Study of Mergers and AcquisitionsSchool page for Center for the Study of Mergers and Acquisitions (opens in a new tab)
- Center on Children and the LawSchool page for Center on Children and the Law (opens in a new tab)
- Miller Center for Public Interest Law and AdvocacySchool page for Miller Center for Public Interest Law and Advocacy (opens in a new tab)
Journals and advocacy programs
Student-edited publications and competitive advocacy programs.
- Dickinson Law ReviewSchool page for Dickinson Law Review (opens in a new tab)
- Penn State Arbitration Law ReviewSchool page for Penn State Arbitration Law Review (opens in a new tab)
- Penn State Journal of Law & International AffairsSchool page for Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (opens in a new tab)
- Penn State Law ReviewSchool page for Penn State Law Review (opens in a new tab)
Advanced law degrees
Degrees for people who already hold a first degree in law, in the United States or abroad.
- LL.M. programSchool page for LL.M. program (opens in a new tab)
Master's degrees for non-lawyers
Graduate degrees in legal studies for professionals who work with the law but do not intend to practise. They do not qualify graduates to sit for the bar.
- Master of Legal StudiesSchool page for Master of Legal Studies (opens in a new tab)
Curriculum & faculty (2025 ABA report)
Source
- Organization
- American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
- Document
- ABA Standard 509 compilation — Curricular Offerings (2025)
- Covers
- Report year 2025
- Retrieved
- Sep 23, 2026
- Status
- Verified · Sep 23, 2026
Course titles beyond 1L
174
Clinic positions available
181
181 filled
Field placements filled
263
Simulation course seats
781
Co-curricular offerings
39
Full-time faculty
72
126 total faculty
Clinic and simulation seat counts are only mapped from report layouts that define them unambiguously (2025 onward).
