A great legal education
that fits your life
A leader in practical, individualized legal education
Mitchell Hamline’s strength in practical training, specialty areas of law, and part-time offerings are well known and ranked nationwide. We make these strengths available to students on our St. Paul, Minnesota campus and to our blended learning students wherever they are in life or on the map.
Practical Training
We teach through skills courses and simulation exercises that mirror real-world situations, and through actual hands-on experience with real clients.
US News top 100 in Clinical Training, Legal Writing, and Trial Advocacy
Dispute Resolution
Dispute resolution is at the core of our curriculum because it teaches identification of interests, mutual understanding, creative problem solving, and artful negotiation.
Consistently ranked in the top dispute resolution programs by US News
Health Law
Our Health Law Institute serves as a hub in the health law world for law students, attorneys, health care practitioners, and business professionals. The top-ranked health law program in Minnesota.
Alumni in leadership roles at the biggest names in health care
Intellectual Property
Robust IP curriculum taught by faculty experts recognized around the world. Our students benefit from access to some of the world’s leading innovators headquartered locally.
US News top 100 for intellectual property law.
Enrollment options to fit your life
Study part time, partially online or on campus
Spending just a few weeks per year on campus, you can study the law at Mitchell Hamline. And you can do it from anywhere in the world. Our four-year, part-time program has enrollment options for students living outside the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area and part-time day and evening on-campus options.
Part Time, Blended
- on campus twice per semester in the first four semesters
- intensive, case-study workshops
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9–11 credits per semester
- work full time (per ABA policy)
- sit for the bar in every state—including New York
Part Time, On Campus
- Monday–Thursday day or evening
- three classes per semester
- 9–11 credits per semester
- work full time (per ABA policy)
- most complete the degree in four years
- able to take online electives
Study full time on our campus
Mitchell Hamline also has an enrollment option for the full-time student. Earn your J.D. in three years studying full time.
Full Time, On Campus
- Monday–Friday, 9 am–4 pm
- four classes per semester
- 14 credits per semester
- most complete the degree in three years
- able to take the online electives developed for our blended learning program
A rigorous, practice-based experience
Preparing you to serve clients and communities
A challenging curriculum that gets you ready to practice. More than 20,000 alumni to help guide your path to your career. Whether you take classes full time or part time, on-campus or partially online, you’ll start learning the work of a lawyer by doing it. You’ll benefit from top-ranked programs in emerging specialties. You’ll be ready to make an immediate contribution in law, business, government, community service, or whatever field you pursue.
At Mitchell Hamline School of Law, we have been educating lawyers for more than 100 years but are still innovating to respond to the changing legal world.
Great in theory. Even better in practice.
Office of Admissions
Saint Paul, MN 55105
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More than 14,000 alumni working, serving, and leading in Minnesota
Mitchell Hamline graduates hold leadership roles in many fields. In a state with one of the most diverse economies, they’ve put their Mitchell Hamline education to work in every area of the law and beyond.
We’re known as Minnesota’s law school of choice—graduating more of the state’s judges and attorneys than any other law school. Our practical training, specialty areas of law, and part-time offerings are known and ranked nationwide. And Minnesota has one of the most diverse economies in the nation, keeping the state’s employment rate strong and steady.
Family Law and Child Protection
Native American Law
Native Justice Scholarships allow you to stay in your community, learn Native American law, and pay no more than $40,000 for your J.D.