Minnesota’s
Law School of Choice
Minnesota’s attorneys come from Mitchell Hamline
With more than 14,000 alumni working, serving, and leading in Minnesota, Mitchell Hamline is the law school of choice for students planning to practice law in Minnesota.
Mitchell Hamline’s J.D. degree program integrates the study of law with practical skills training. It’s an active, intellectually demanding learning process. Students receive an experiential education that provides the maximum possible opportunity to do what real lawyers do while still in law school.
On-Campus Enrollment Options
Full Time
- 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
Part Time
Continue working while you earn your J.D.
- 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
Students from the incoming class of Fall 2018 describe their first days on campus
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
651-290-6476
1-888-962-5529
Fax: 651-290-6414
admissions@mitchellhamline.edu
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Study part time, partially online: Earn your J.D. from your hometown
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.
Part Time, Blended
- on campus twice per semester in the first four semesters
- intensive, case-study workshops
- 9–11 credits per semester
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work full time (per ABA policy)
- sit for the bar in every state—including New York
Scotty Ducharme ’19 tells how his family’s experience with a Legal Aid attorney years earlier inspired him to come to Mitchell Hamline and eventually work in Child Protection Clinic.