The Largest Law School

There are 866 students enrolled in the regular session of the law department of the University of Michigan the present college year. This is an increase of 12 over the enrollment of last year. The total is made up as follows: Graduate students, 5; third-year students, 244; second-year students, 242; first-year students, 300; special students, 75. Adding to the total 32, the number of students in the law summer session of 1902, not enrolled in the regular session, and the grand total of 898 for the college year is obtained.

According to statistics compiled last November by Rudolf Tombo, Jr., registrar of Columbia University, the law department of the University of Michigan has a larger number of students than any other law school In the country. The enrollment figures for the law departments of 15 of our large universities, for November 1, 1902, are:

Michigan 847

Harvard 636

Columbia 463

Minnesota 430

Pennsylvania 340

Yale 290

Cornell 222

Wisconsin 219

Northwestern 171

Nebraska 166

Syracuse 134

Missouri 108

Indiana 90

California 80

Chicago 59