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Those looking to balance a career with a legal education might consider a part-time law program to help them juggle their responsibilities.

Among the 98 schools that submitted these data to U.S. News in an annual survey, Georgetown University topped the list of law schools that received the most part-time applications in fall 2015, at 1,509. Georgetown’s part-time law program ranked No. 1 in U.S. News’ 2017 Best Law Schools, with an overall rank of 14.

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Georgetown’s part-time applicant pool was significantly larger than the average among the top 10 on the list — 652 — as well as that among all schools that submitted these data, at 204 applications. The other nine schools on the list each received fewer than 850 part-time applications last fall.

The three next highest -ranked part-time law programs — Fordham University in New York, at No. 2; George Washington University in Washington, D.C., at No. 3; and George Mason University in Virginia, at No. 4 — were also among the 10 that received the most part-time applications last fall.

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Prospective law students looking for a part-time program in Washington, D.C. or New York might be up against more applicants than elsewhere. These two cities each had three part-time law programs among the schools on the list.

Below are the 10 law schools that received the most applicants to part-time programs in fall 2015. Unranked schools, which did not meet certain criteria required by U.S. News to be numerically ranked, were not considered for this report. Note that the William Mitchell College of Law in Minnesota has merged with the Hamline University School of Law in Minnesota to become the Mitchell Hamline School of Law, though the two schools appear separately in the 2017 rankings.

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U.S. News surveyed 205 schools for our 2015 survey of law programs. Schools self-reported myriad data regarding their academic programs and the makeup of their student body, among other areas, making U.S. News’ data the most accurate and detailed collection of college facts and figures of its kind. While U.S. News uses much of this survey data to rank schools for our annual Best Law Schools rankings, the data can also be useful when examined on a smaller scale. U.S. News will now produce lists of data, separate from the overall rankings, meant to provide students and parents a means to find which schools excel, or have room to grow, in specific areas that are important to them. While the data come from the schools themselves, these lists are not related to, and have no influence over, U.S. News’ rankings of Best Colleges, Best Graduate Schools or Best Online Programs. The application data above are correct as of Aug. 9, 2016.

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