The school offers
Juris Doctor, LLM and Master of Legal Studies degrees, as well as joint-degree programs for those pursuing a degree through Drexel University's LeBow College of Business, School of Public Health, Department of Psychology and Center for Public Policy. It received provisional accreditation from the
American Bar Association in February 2008 enabling the first graduating class, 2009, to take the
bar exam upon graduation. The school offers optional concentrations in business and entrepreneurship law, criminal law, health law, and intellectual property law and as of 2019 has 134 full and part-time faculty members. The School of Law is the first to have enrolled all of its students in the Philadelphia Bar Association's Young Lawyers Section. The students also have automatic membership to the
Jenkins Law Library. In addition to admittance to the Law Library students also publish a
Law Review,
Drexel Law Review, which is published semiannually. In August 2011, after three years of being provisionally accredited, the American Bar Association granted the School of Law full accreditation.
Cooperative education Like Drexel University's
cooperative education program, the School of Law offers cooperative education for its students. The School of Law is the second law school in the country to have a co-op program for law students, the first being
Northeastern University. The first co-op cycle for the school started in September 2007 and over ninety area corporations, law offices, judiciary positions, non-profit organizations, and government offices offered internship positions. During their first year at school students concentrate on basics such as legal writing and contracts before starting their first six-month co-op cycle. In order to be eligible to participate in the program students must complete their first year with a minimum GPA and satisfy any job orientation that is required. While on co-op students are required to work at least 20 hours a week at their position and take an additional 3 credit hours in either a class or an approved academic program. Beginning with the class that enrolled in 2014, all students are required to complete at least one co-op placement or a clinical placement in addition to providing a minimum of 50 hours of pro bono service.
Admissions For the class entering in 2024, the law school accepted 37.79% of applicants, with 22.66 % of those accepted enrolling. The median enrollee had a 158
LSAT score and 3.72 undergraduate
GPA. Two students were not included in the GPA calculation, and one student was not included in the LSAT calculation. Its 25th/75th percentile LSAT scores and GPAs were 153/160 and 3.45/3.85.
Rankings In 2025,
U.S. News & World Report ranked Drexel tied for the 79th best law school in the U.S. On the 2020 list of "Best Law Schools" by the
U.S. News & World Report the School of Law was ranked 93 out of 196 schools. In 2025, the law school's Trial Advocacy program was ranked tied for 8th; the Health Law program was ranked tied for 20th, the Clinical Training program was ranked tied for 71st, the Legal Writing program was ranked tied for 44st, Business/Corporate Law tied for 88th, Constitutional Law tied for 86th, Contracts/Commercial Law tied for 106th, Dispute Resolution tied for 102nd, Intellectual Property Law tied for 89th, and International Law tied for 125th. == Career planning ==