Blended Learning

We’re excited that you are going to earn the nation’s premiere blended-learning J.D.

You’ll spend just a few weeks per year on our campus while studying the law at Mitchell Hamline. You’ll continue your studies from anywhere in the world. Whether that means more time in your hometown or extensive travel for work or in the military, we’ve seen students excel in those situations while completing their legal education in a way that fit their lives. You can do it, too.

Semester by semester

For the first four semesters, courses are essentially the same for all blended-learning students. You will come to campus for a Prep Week at the beginning of your first semester and return for a Capstone Week at the end of each semester. During semesters 2-4, you’ll have a remote, synchronous Prep Weekend and will complete your coursework asynchronously online during the other 12-13 weeks of the semester.

Starting in semester five, you will have access to a range of courses in a variety of formats. For any courses you take in semesters 5-8 in the blended format, you will come to campus for a Capstone Week.

On-campus instruction

Students start their law school career with a Prep Week on campus. At the end of the first four semesters—and for any courses students take in the blended format during later semesters—they’ll return to campus for a five-day Capstone Week.

Follow two cohorts of blended learning students through Fall Capstone Week

Although these seven short episodes follow seven days of Capstone Week, the Capstone experience has been streamlined to better suit student needs and will last for five days starting in fall 2026.

Mitchell Hamline trains law professors worldwide on online learning

As law schools recently faced a sudden need to move their classes online, many turned to the experts at Mitchell Hamline for advice. We have conducted remote training sessions for schools worldwide.

Read more: Training law professors worldwide on online learning

Meet blended-learning graduate Amber Fitzgerald ’20

For the first time at an ABA-approved law school, a blended-learning student—Amber Fitzgerald from Washington, Missouri—was elected editor-in-chief of the school’s law review.