Columbia Law Boosts Public Interest Support
Columbia Law School is pumping an additional $4.5 million into public interest support programs in the form of post-graduate fellowships and a more generous Loan Repayment Assistance Program.
November 15, 2018 at 11:00 AM
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Columbia Law School is bolstering its support for students interested in public interest careers with an additional $4.5 million in financial support for public interest programs over the next three years.
The new public interest push—spearheaded by Dean Gillian Lester—is centered on two areas: Loan repayment assistance for Columbia law graduates who work in public interest jobs, and fellowships for recent graduates to work in public interest law positions.
The law school's Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP), helps graduates in public interest jobs repay their student loans, given that most of those positions come with lower salaries than jobs in the private sector. Columbia is increasing the income threshold for that program from $50,000 to $55,000. That change will net LRAP recipients an additional $1,725 annually and make Columbia's program among the most generous in the nation, according to the school.
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