The American Bar Association (ABA) requires law schools to publicly disclose on its website standardized information in a number of categories.
Click this link to view the ABA Standard 509 Information Report for South Texas College of Law Houston.
Required disclosure information includes:
1. Admissions data
2. Tuition, fees, living costs, and financial aid
3. Enrollment data, including academic, transfer, and attrition
4. Number of full-time and part-time faculty, professional librarians, and administrators
5. Curricular offerings, academic calendar, and academic requirements
6. Bar passage data
7. Conditional scholarships
South Texas College of Law Houston offers conditional scholarships to admitted students based on a combination of a student’s score on the Law School Admission Test and undergraduate grade point average. To maintain these scholarships, students must achieve a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0. For this purpose, a student’s cumulative GPA is measured after the student’s second long semester and subsequently at the conclusion of each spring semester.
Students who began their studies at South Texas before the fall 2011 semester were subject to a mandatory grading curve in first-year required courses that no longer applies to entering students. Students who began their studies in the fall 2011 and subsequent semesters are subject to a revised mandatory grading curve in first-year required courses. Based on recent class rankings under the revised grading curve, a first-year student with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 has ranked in the top 50% of the class.
South Texas also awards scholarships to continuing students. One such scholarship, the Academic Merit Scholarship, is awarded based on the student’s law school cumulative GPA and level of financial need. During 2015-2016, South Texas College of Law Houston awarded more than $450,000 to continuing students in Academic Merit Scholarships. A student with a conditional scholarship receives the higher of their conditional scholarship or the Academic Merit scholarship for which they are eligible. In addition, South Texas awards specific scholarships to students based on criteria such as academic merit, status as a veteran, or participation in student organizations and activities. During 2015-2016, South Texas College of Law Houston students received more than $600,000 in the form of these specific scholarships.
8. Employment outcomes;
- Employment data required by ABA Standard 509
9. Curriculum and refund information
- Refund policies
- The policies of South Texas College of Law Houston can be found here.
- Curricular offerings, academic calendar, and academic requirements
- Policies regarding the transfer of credit earned at another institution of higher education
- The policies of South Texas College of Law Houston can be found here.
10. Student Complaint Policies
- The policies of South Texas College of Law Houston can be found here.
Information on Accreditation and Memberships