Columbia Law School

If you are seriously thinking of taking up law as a college degree, there is no better school to pursue this than in the Columbia law school. Apart from being an Ivy League member, Columbia law school also happens to have its base of operations in New York City, easily making it among the more popular of US law schools. (1) Of course, the fact that it is associated with the prestigious Columbia University all the more should make Columbia law school your preferred choice when it comes to obtaining a degree in the legal profession.

One thing you should remember about law degree programs over at Columbia law school is that these are not offered to part-time students. This means that if you have plans of eventually enrolling at Columbia law school, you should be really prepared, mentally and financially speaking. This is because a typical law course in Columbia law school can only be availed of if you are willing to pursue it full-time, where you are expected to devote approximately three years studying the complexities of US laws. (2) Summer and evening classes are likewise not known to be held at any given semester.

Every year during the opening of the school season in August, you should expect at least 369 other freshman law hopefuls trying to gain admission to Columbia law school. You can further expect this number to be cut in half by the time you and your fellow law students enter your second year.

Obviously, a very high standard exists in this law school when it comes to student admissions. You will really need to be armed with tremendous mental powers to be able to hurdle the admissions examinations and requirements that Columbia law school sets as pre-requisites.

Of course, if your concern is reference materials for your research needs, the resident school library, referred to as the Arthur W. Diamond Law Library, should be able to take care of that. Here, you can find over 7,450 different law journals apart from various statutes and cases as these were recorded in every single American state. There are also an innumerable collection of books from about 100 different countries and you can read these in at least 80 different languages. (3)

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Law_School
(2) http://www.law.columbia.edu/jd_applicants/aboutcls
(3) http://www.law.columbia.edu/jd_applicants/aboutcls/ourlibrary