{"id":149814,"date":"2026-04-28T15:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T23:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/28\/after-years-of-decline-male-law-students-make-a-modest-comeback\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T23:11:16","slug":"after-years-of-decline-male-law-students-make-a-modest-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/28\/after-years-of-decline-male-law-students-make-a-modest-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"After Years Of Decline, Male Law Students Make A Modest Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Their enrollment going up is surprising. It\u2019s just been going down, down, down for the last several years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 Tiffane Cochran<\/a>, vice president of research at the AccessLex Institute, in comments given to the ABA Journal<\/a>, concerning the growing number of male students enrolled in JD programs. This is the first time since 2010 that the number of male enrollees has increased, climbing to 50,900 in 2025, compared to 49,000 in 2024. Women still dominate when it comes to JD enrollment, making up 56% of all law students (67,400 enrollees in 2025).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post After Years Of Decline, Male Law Students Make A Modest Comeback<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Their enrollment going up is surprising. It\u2019s just been going down, down, down for the last several years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 Tiffane Cochran<\/a>, vice president of research at the AccessLex Institute, in comments given to the ABA Journal<\/a>, concerning the growing number of male students enrolled in JD programs. This is the first time since 2010 that the number of male enrollees has increased, climbing to 50,900 in 2025, compared to 49,000 in 2024. Women still dominate when it comes to JD enrollment, making up 56% of all law students (67,400 enrollees in 2025).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post After Years Of Decline, Male Law Students Make A Modest Comeback<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. Their enrollment going up is surprising. It\u2019s just been going down, down, down for the last several years. \u2014\u00a0 Tiffane Cochran, vice president of research at the AccessLex Institute, in comments given to the ABA Journal, concerning the growing number of male students enrolled in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Staci-Zaretsky-FlszoQ.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}