Scholarships

Law School Merit Scholarships

Incoming First-Year Students

All applicants offered admission to the Law School's first-year JD class are automatically considered for merit scholarship awards as long as funds remain available; there is no separate scholarship application to submit. Scholarship awarding typically begins in February each year. If an admitted applicant is awarded a scholarship, they will be contacted directly. Generally, a potential merit scholarship award is not decided at the time of an offer of admission but would be decided before the admitted student is required to pay a tuition deposit. Most Marquette law students, including those who receive scholarships, rely upon a combination of loan programs to finance their educations and to pay for living expenses while in Law School; consequently, timely submission of the FAFSA is crucial for entering law students.

In typical recent years, more than two-thirds of incoming first-year students have been awarded merit scholarships of varying amounts. Merit scholarship awards vary in amount from about $2000 per year up to full tuition. Scholarships will be applied to tuition only; they may not be applied to other expenses. In most recent years, the median scholarship award—for those incoming students receiving awards—has been in the $20,000 to $24,000 per year range. Scholarships are awarded on the basis of merit (that is, based upon a review of the application for admission) and not on the basis of need.

Marquette Law School does not offer "conditional scholarships," as that term is defined in Interpretation 509-3 of Standard 509 of the ABA Standards for Approval of Law Schools. More specifically, the retention of a scholarship awarded to a student who matriculates at Marquette Law School is not conditioned upon the student's maintaining a minimum grade point average or class standing, other than that ordinarily required to remain in good academic standing. A 2.000 cumulative grade point average is required to remain in good academic standing.

Continuing Students

In recent years, students ranked in the top ten to twenty percent of their class at the conclusion of the each year have received scholarship awards of a few thousand dollars. The Law School expects to continue that policy for the foreseeable future. The Law School only applies achievement scholarships directly to tuition.

Outside Scholarship Resources