Florida Coastal School of Law JD Program at-a-Glance

Florida Coastal School of Law offers an ABA approved Juris Doctor (JD) program, which is normally completed in 3 years.

Program Cost, Financial Aid, and Completion Statistics

As of the 2010-11 academic year, tuition and fees for the 3-year JD program total $97,986. Books and supplies for the program total $3,900.00.  For more detailed information about Coastal Law’s program costs, please visit http://fcsl.edu/finance/tuition-and-fees-general-information

The median cumulative program debt for Coastal Law graduates between July 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010, is as follows:

• Federal student loan debt: $117,855.00
• Private student loan debt: $0.00
• Institutional financial plan debt: $0.00

For more information about financial aid opportunities, please contact Financial Aid Director Roger Collins at rcollins@fcsl.edu or (904) 680-7717.

For July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2010, 90% of Coastal Law graduates completed the program in 3 years.

Job Placement Statistics

Like all ABA-accredited law schools, Florida Coastal School of Law is required to survey the members of its most recent graduating class to ascertain their employment status. In February of each year, law schools report this employment data to the National Association for Law Placement (NALP), the non-profit educational association for law schools and legal employers which oversees the annual employment survey. The data collected reflect the employment status of each law school’s graduates as of February 15. Law schools subsequently report this same employment data to the ABA.

Florida Coastal School of Law was able to confirm the employment status of 99.7% (450 out of 451) of its program completers who graduated between September 1, 2010 and August 31, 2011 (the time period set forth by NALP). The job placement rate for these graduates, the program completers whose employment status was known, was 80.6%. This figure was calculated using the NALP formula for calculating job placement rate, though we do include as “working” those graduates who are continuing their education full-time in a degree- or certificate-granting program.

As such, our 80.6% job placement rate was calculated by adding together all of our employed graduates (352) plus all of our graduates who are continuing their education full-time in a degree- or certificate-granting program (11) and then dividing this number by 450 (the number of graduates whose employment status we were able to confirm). In accordance with NALP guidelines, the number of employed graduates includes all employment positions, including legal and non-legal positions, permanent and temporary positions, full-time and part-time positions, and any positions funded by Florida Coastal School of Law. 

The accrediting agency to which job placement data is reported is the American Bar Association. Job placement data is also reported to the National Association Law Placement.

For more information about Coastal Law’s Career Services Department, please contact Director Ellen Sefton at esefton@fcsl.edu  or (904) 680-7728.