Last updated: October 12, 2026

Cumberland School of Law (Samford University)

Cumberland School of Law is the law school of Samford University, a private Christian university in the Homewood suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. It enrolled 170 first-year students in Fall 2025 from 925 completed applications, with a median LSAT of 156 and a median undergraduate GPA of 3.63. It is ranked #122 (tie) of 194 in the 2026 U.S. News rankings overall but #9 in the nation for Trial Advocacy — its seventh consecutive year in the top 10 — and 94.9% of the Class of 2025 graduates eligible for employment were employed ten months after graduation, with 96% of those in bar-required or JD-preferred positions. The central decision issue for admitted applicants is that Cumberland pairs a nationally elite advocacy program and strong Alabama placement with a full-time-only, high-price, regional degree, at a 2026–27 cost of attendance of $80,602.

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Cumberland Law at a Glance

Category	Latest information
Founded	1847 (Cumberland School of Law, Lebanon, Tennessee); relocated to Birmingham and affiliated with Samford University in 1961 — founding and relocation years not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed
Type	Private (Samford University, a Christian university founded 1841)
ABA approval or accreditation	Approved by the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions of the Bar, American Bar Association (year of approval not retrieved)
Location	Homewood (Birmingham), Alabama
Latest U.S. News rank	#122 tie of 194 (2026 edition); #9 tie in Trial Advocacy
Latest completed applications	925 (Fall 2025)
Latest acceptance rate	48.97% (Fall 2025; 453 offers from 925 applications)
Latest LSAT median	156 (Fall 2025)
Latest GPA median	3.63 (Fall 2025)
Latest entering class	170 (Fall 2025, school-reported; a third-party tabulation reports 168 enrolling)
Current tuition	$47,724, plus $1,040 in required fees (2026–27)
Current estimated cost of attendance	$80,602 (2026–27, school-published nine-month budget)
Latest first-time bar passage	88.07% (July 2025 Alabama bar; statewide first-time rate 78.01%, a margin of roughly 10 points)
Latest bar-required employment	96% of employed Class of 2025 graduates in bar-required or JD-preferred positions; 94.9% of employment-eligible graduates employed at 10 months
Current dean	Blake Hudson (dean effective July 1, 2022; the Ethel P. Malugen Professor of Law)

The admissions figures come from the school's disclosures and third-party tabulations of the 2025 ABA 509 data: 925 applications, 453 offers, a 48.97% acceptance rate, and 170 students reported in the first-year class. Samford's own ABA disclosures page lists a median LSAT of 156, a median GPA of 3.63, and total class enrollment of 170; a separate tabulation of the same data reports 168 enrollees, a difference of two that reflects counting dates rather than a substantive conflict. Tuition, fees, and the cost-of-attendance budget are the school's published 2026–27 figures. Blake Hudson became dean on July 1, 2022, succeeding Henry C. (Corky) Strickland III and Michael D. Floyd; Hudson previously served as a professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and returned to Alabama, where he has roots, to lead the school.

Introduction

Cumberland School of Law, founded in 1847, is one of the oldest law schools in the United States and the law school of Samford University, a private Christian university in the Homewood suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. The school occupies Robinson Hall on the Samford campus, which U.S. News has ranked among the 35 most beautiful college campuses in the country. With a J.D. student body of roughly 425 and a first-year class of about 170, Cumberland is a small, full-time-only law school with an outsized national reputation in one specific discipline: trial advocacy.

Cumberland's identity rests on three pillars: a trial advocacy program ranked in the national top 10 for seven consecutive years and supported by one of the most decorated competition records in the country; a strong Alabama employment and bar-passage record that places the large majority of graduates in the state's legal market; and a small, collegial student culture inside a university with a stated Christian mission. Its alumni network runs through the Alabama bench, bar, district attorneys' offices, and legislature.

Rankings and Reputation

Cumberland is ranked #122 (tie) of 194 in the 2026 U.S. News & World Report law school rankings overall, and #9 (tie) in the nation for Trial Advocacy. The gap between those two numbers is the whole story of the school's reputation: Cumberland is a mid-pack school overall and a genuinely elite one in courtroom advocacy, and prospective students should evaluate the two claims separately rather than averaging them.

Overall ranking

U.S. News edition	Cumberland rank
2026	122 (tie) of 194 overall; #9 (tie) in Trial Advocacy
Third-party ranking (LSD.law)	#107 (a different methodology from U.S. News, not an edition of it)

Third-party rankings place the school in different bands depending on methodology — LSD.law, which ranks on real applicant behavior and outcomes, lists Cumberland at #107. Neither figure should be blended with the other. Movement within the 100–125 band is immaterial to Cumberland's practical outcomes, which are driven by its advocacy program, Alabama bar results, and Birmingham placement rather than by aggregate rank.

Specialty rankings

Trial Advocacy: #9 (tie) nationally in the 2026 U.S. News specialty rankings, released April 7, 2026 — Cumberland's seventh consecutive year in the top 10. The school describes the placement as reflecting its "longstanding strength in experiential legal education and courtroom training."
Competition record, beyond the U.S. News survey: #3 nationally in the Trial Competition Performance Rankings (overall since 2016); #2 nationally in the Gavel Rankings (overall since 2019); and #8 on the American Bar Association's list of top competition champions for alternative dispute resolution and moot court. These are competition-outcome rankings rather than peer-assessment surveys, and they corroborate the U.S. News placement.
Advocacy leadership: Judge Jim Roberts, J.D. '94, co-directs advocacy programs and directs the national trial teams, having coached Cumberland's trial teams for nearly 30 years — an unusually long tenure for a program that has held a top-10 position for seven straight cycles.
Peer assessment basis: U.S. News specialty rankings are based on peer assessment by academics and practicing attorneys nationwide, not on placement or salary data.

Admissions: What It Takes to Get In

Entering class (Fall 2025)

Admissions metric	Fall 2025
Completed applications	925
Offers of admission	453
Acceptance rate	48.97%
Total in first-year class	170 (school-reported)
Yield (enrollees / offers)	≈37.5% (computed: 170 enrollees ÷ 453 offers)

Cumberland enrolls a full-time-only J.D. cohort, and the school's scholarship terms distinguish a "Flextime" category of students from entering first-year full-time students with respect to first-year scholarship eligibility, indicating that the school accommodates a limited flexible or part-time study path while reporting a single full-time first-year class. The complete demographics of the entering class — gender split, students of color, first-generation students, states represented, and undergraduate institutions — were not retrievable in the sources reviewed and should be added from the school's class profile before publishing.

LSAT and GPA

Statistic	25th percentile	Median	75th percentile
LSAT (Fall 2025)	— (not retrieved)	156	— (not retrieved)
Undergraduate GPA (Fall 2025)	— (not retrieved)	3.63	— (not retrieved)

The school reports only the medians publicly on its disclosures page. The 25th and 75th percentiles are published in the Standard 509 Information Report and should be read from that document before the table is published in full. The school's 509 report aggregates undergraduate GPA across the first-year class regardless of admission test, indicating that a test other than the LSAT is accepted; the specific alternative tests accepted were not independently confirmed.

Interpreting the numbers

Cumberland admits roughly half its applicant pool — a 48.97% acceptance rate — which places it among the more accessible ABA-approved schools in this profile series, and its 37.5% yield is healthy for that band, indicating that admitted students who visit tend to enroll. The most important interpretive point is that the LSAT median of 156 sits well below the school's trial advocacy reputation: applicants who want Cumberland for the advocacy program are not competing against a 165-median pool, while applicants who want the school's regional employment network should note that they will be graded on a curve set by that 156 median. A second point matters for planning: because only median figures were published in the sources reviewed, applicants cannot currently assess the spread of the class, and they should pull the 25th and 75th percentiles from the school's 509 report before drawing conclusions about whether their numbers put them in the top or bottom quarter.

Application timing

The application fee, priority and final deadlines for the current cycle, and the binding or non-binding early decision policy were not retrieved: both the school's J.D. admissions page and its tuition-and-financial-aid path returned error pages during research for this profile, so no deadline table could be read. Applicants must confirm all dates directly with the admissions office. The school does state one significant scholarship deadline in substance: the Jere F. White Jr. Fellows Program is described as the only entering scholarship that requires an additional application, which means applicants who want to be considered for the school's single annual full-tuition award must submit that separate application in addition to the J.D. application — a deadline that is easy to miss and should be verified first.

Cost, Scholarships, and Debt

Tuition

Tuition and fees for the 2026–27 academic year:

Charge	2026–27
Tuition	$47,724
Required fees	$1,040
Tuition and fees total	$48,764

Published figures differ across sources and are shown rather than reconciled: U.S. News reports full-time tuition of $47,334 with food and housing of $22,050 and books of $2,400, and LSAC reports tuition of $45,426 with $900 in fees and a total expected cost of attendance of $76,608 — both of which describe a prior cycle. The school's published 2026–27 figure of $47,724 is used throughout this profile. Cumberland charges the same tuition to residents and non-residents because Samford is private, and there is no in-state discount to offset. The LL.M. (31 credit hours) is billed at $976 per credit hour with a $120 distance-learning fee per course and university graduate fees, for an approximate total of $33,756; the Master of Studies in Law (34 credit hours) totals approximately $36,804 on the same rate structure — both reflecting 2025–26 pricing.

Cost of attendance

Expense	2026–27 (nine-month academic year)
Tuition	$47,724
Required fees	$1,040
Room and board	$22,602
Books and supplies	$2,640
Transportation	$2,310
Personal and miscellaneous	$4,286
Total cost of attendance	$80,602

The budget is the school's own published figure and is unusually complete: it itemizes room and board, books, transportation, and personal expenses rather than bundling them, and it does not appear to include loan origination fees, so students borrowing will face a slightly higher true cost. Because Cumberland is a three-year full-time program, the gross three-year cost at current rates is approximately $241,806 before any scholarship — the figure that should be weighed against the school's employment and salary outcomes.

Financial aid

Cumberland's aid structure has one genuinely student-friendly feature and one structural limitation. The student-friendly feature: the school evaluates every admitted student for scholarship, and first-year full-time students are considered for merit-based awards without a separate application, with the scholarship committee weighing cumulative undergraduate GPA and LSAT score. The limitation is that the school does not publish a median award, a percentage-receiving-aid figure, or grant percentiles on its public pages, so the expected value of the award is not knowable in advance; the number of grant recipients and the 25th/50th/75th percentile grant amounts from the 509 report were not retrievable for this profile and must be read from the PDF. Two further details are worth knowing: Flextime students are not eligible for scholarships during their first two semesters of study, and the school awards one full-tuition scholarship each year through the Jere F. White Jr. Fellows Program, the only entering award requiring a separate application. Second- and third-year students may receive additional endowed, need-based, merit, or leadership scholarships in categories including academic, achievement, leadership, international, minority, and geographic — a sign that aid is distributed incrementally after the first year rather than front-loaded. The school also directs students to the AccessLex Scholarship Databank for outside awards. Financial aid questions route through Samford's One Stop for Graduate School, and the FAFSA is the entry point.

Debt perspective

Two facts define the debt picture, and one of them is a gap in the record. First, average graduate indebtedness and the percentage of graduates borrowing were not retrieved for Cumberland; the figures reported alongside it in this profile series ($103,964 to $131,125) belong to other schools and must not be attributed to Cumberland. Second, no loan repayment assistance program was identified for Cumberland in the sources reviewed, and one aggregator listing for a Cumberland LRAP returned nothing — but because the school's financial aid pages were not retrievable, the absence of an LRAP should be treated as unconfirmed rather than as a verified fact, and the school should be asked directly. The structural risk is clear regardless: at $80,602 per year and roughly $241,806 gross over three years with no in-state discount, no published median award, and no verified repayment backstop, Cumberland's debt profile will be determined almost entirely by how much merit aid each admitted student negotiates. Because the school evaluates every admit for scholarship, the practical advice is to treat the award letter — not the sticker price — as the real price, and to compare award letters across schools on the same basis.

Employment Outcomes

Employment (Class of 2025)

Samford reports that 94.9% of Class of 2025 graduates who were eligible for employment secured positions ten months after graduation, and that 96% of those employed are working in positions classified as bar-required or JD-preferred. The class also produced seven judicial clerkships — three at the federal level and four at the state level. Independent tabulations of the same federal data report a 77.7% employment score (full-time, long-term, bar-required or JD-advantage positions counted against all graduates) and a 0% underemployment score.

Employment metric	Class of 2025
Employed at 10 months (employment-eligible graduates)	94.9% (school-reported)
Employed in bar-required or JD-preferred positions (of those employed)	96% (school-reported)
Judicial clerkships	7 (3 federal, 4 state)
Employment score (full-time, long-term, bar-required or JD-advantage, all graduates)	77.7% (LawHub)
Underemployment score	0% (LawHub)

The detailed ABA category table — total graduates, firm-size distribution, government and public interest counts, and the count of graduates not seeking employment — is published by the school as Employment-Data-2025.pdf, with 2024 and 2023 reports also posted, but the PDF was not machine-readable in the sources reviewed. Sector-by-sector counts, state-by-state placement, and median or percentile salary figures for the Class of 2025 were likewise not retrievable and are not asserted here.

What these numbers mean

Cumberland's employment profile is strong in the two measures that matter most to a prospective student: a 94.9% employment rate among graduates actively seeking work, and a 96% share of those jobs falling in bar-required or JD-preferred categories. A 0% underemployment score means no graduates were counted in the part-time, short-term, or non-professional categories that depress outcomes elsewhere. The gap between the school's 94.9% and LawHub's 77.7% is purely methodological — the school's figure is computed against employment-eligible graduates, while the LawHub score counts full-time, long-term, bar-required or JD-advantage positions against the entire class — and both describe the same underlying placement pattern rather than conflicting claims. The judicial clerkship result (seven placements, three of them federal) is meaningful for a school in this band and is consistent with an advocacy-heavy curriculum that produces strong interviewers. The absence of published salary data is the real limitation: without median salaries, a student cannot compute the debt-to-income ratio that should govern the decision at an $80,602 annual price.

Bar passage

Bar statistic	Recent graduates
First-time pass rate, July 2025 Alabama bar	88.07% (96 passing, 13 failing); statewide first-time rate 78.01% — a margin of roughly 10 points
First-time pass rate (2025 graduates, all jurisdictions)	90.4% (LawHub)
First-time pass rate (2024 graduates, school-reported)	78% (school's ABA disclosures page)
First-time pass rate (2024 administrations, ABA 509-aligned)	78.8%, against an Alabama rate 1.3 points higher (ILRG; the ILRG school page returned another institution's profile during research, so this figure comes from a search-result summary and should be verified)
One year out pass rate (Class of 2023)	91% (school-reported)
Ultimate pass rate (Class of 2022)	94% (school-reported)

Bar passage at Cumberland is strong and, on the most recent administration-matched comparison, unusually so. On the July 2025 Alabama bar, Cumberland's first-time takers passed at 88.07% while the statewide first-time rate was 78.01% — a margin of about ten points, and far above the 70.83% recorded by Faulkner's Jones School of Law in the same sitting (the University of Alabama posted 95.35%). The longer-run series the school publishes is also healthy: 91% of Class of 2023 graduates had passed within one year, and 94% of Class of 2022 graduates had passed ultimately. One caution belongs in the record: the 2024 first-time figure of 78% (school-reported) and the ILRG's 78.8% with a negative 1.3-point margin over Alabama describe a single disappointing cycle, so the school's recent record is best read as strong but variable, with 2024 as the weak point and 2025 as a recovery. Applicants should treat the school's ultimate rate (94%) as the more reliable licensure figure and the single-cycle first-time numbers as noise around a solid baseline.

Where graduates go

Cumberland's graduates are concentrated in Alabama, and specifically in Birmingham, which is the state's largest legal market and one of the largest financial and health-care centers in the Southeast. The school's career development office describes its approach as "highly individualized" with emphasis on "consistent preparation, practical experience and professional development from the moment students arrive," and the Class of 2025 results — 96% of employed graduates in bar-required or JD-preferred roles and seven judicial clerkships — are consistent with a market in which the school has durable relationships across firm sizes, the state bench, district attorneys' offices, and public-sector employers. The school's employment data also extends into JD-preferred business and compliance roles, which is the natural destination for graduates who do not practice. Exact state-by-state counts and salary distributions were not retrievable in machine-readable form and are not asserted here.

Academics and Programs

The J.D. is a three-year, full-time program delivered on Samford's Homewood campus, alongside an LL.M. (31 credit hours, offered with distance-learning components) and a Master of Studies in Law (34 credit hours). The school reports a student-to-faculty ratio that was not retrievable in the sources reviewed and should be added from U.S. News or the 509 report.

Curriculum and special strengths

Cumberland's curriculum is anchored by its advocacy and trial practice program, which is the reason most applicants consider the school. The program's structure reflects an unusual emphasis on doing the work from the first year rather than reserving courtroom training for upper-level electives: the school frames its advocacy instruction as preparing "practice-ready lawyers" through "rigorous advocacy instruction and competitive success," and its faculty includes competition coaches with decades of tenure. The results have been sustained rather than episodic — ten consecutive years in the national top 10 by one measure and seven consecutive years in the U.S. News top 10 — which distinguishes Cumberland from schools whose advocacy reputation rests on a single strong class or coach. Beyond advocacy, the school offers the standard upper-level curriculum and awards second- and third-year scholarships in categories that hint at its programmatic range, including academic, achievement, leadership, international, minority, and geographic awards. The school's Christian mission and its position within a university with schools of business, health professions, nursing, pharmacy, and public health support interdisciplinary and JD-preferred career paths.

Clinics and experiential learning

Experiential training is the core of Cumberland's identity, and the school's advocacy program functions as a required-adjacent practical experience rather than an elective add-on. Students train in courtroom and alternative dispute resolution settings and compete on national trial and moot court teams; the school's ABA ranking of #8 among competition champions for alternative dispute resolution and moot court reflects that breadth. Clinical and externship placements leverage the Birmingham market — the state's largest concentration of courts, firms, prosecutors, and public defenders — and the Class of 2025's seven judicial clerkships indicate that students secure placements with judges at both the federal and state level. The specific clinic roster was not retrievable in the sources reviewed and is described generically here; applicants should ask for it directly, because at a school whose entire differentiation is experiential, the number and staffing of live-client clinics is a material question.

Student Life and Location

Living in Birmingham (Homewood)

Cumberland sits on Samford University's campus in Homewood, a residential suburb immediately south of downtown Birmingham, within a university footprint that U.S. News has ranked among the 35 most beautiful campuses in the country and that houses 10 academic schools and roughly 6,500 students from 46 states, Puerto Rico, and 12 countries. Birmingham is Alabama's largest metro area and a genuine legal market — the headquarters of major financial and health-care employers, a substantial federal and state court presence, and the state's largest concentration of law firms. The cost of living is materially below coastal and major-metro markets, and the school's 2026–27 budget of $22,602 for room and board and $2,310 for transportation is consistent with that. The trade-offs are market size and portability: Birmingham is not Atlanta, and Cumberland's network, while deep in Alabama, is regional rather than national, so a graduate targeting another market should plan an active cross-market search. Samford's campus culture includes a stated Christian mission and the university competes in the Southern Conference with 17 athletic teams.

Student body

Cumberland's J.D. enrollment is roughly 425 students with a first-year class of about 170, making it one of the smaller law schools in this profile series. That scale supports the small-section and competition-team structure that the advocacy program depends on, and the school's career services describes an individualized approach that a larger program could not sustain. The complete student-body composition — gender split, students of color, first-generation status, states represented, and undergraduate institutions — was not retrievable in the sources reviewed and should be added from the school's class profile. Because the school enrolls a full-time-only first-year J.D. cohort and maintains a separate "Flextime" category with limited first-year scholarship eligibility, prospective students considering any non-standard study plan should confirm the terms with admissions before relying on aid.

How Cumberland Compares

Choose Cumberland if

You want trial advocacy and are serious about it: #9 nationally in U.S. News, #3 in the Trial Competition Performance Rankings since 2016, #2 in the Gavel Rankings since 2019, and a program coached by the same director for nearly 30 years.
You want an Alabama or Birmingham practice, where the school's network runs through the bench, the bar, prosecutors' offices, and the state's largest firms.
You want a bar-passage cushion: 88.07% first-time on the July 2025 Alabama bar against a 78.01% statewide rate is roughly a ten-point margin, and the ultimate rate was 94% for the Class of 2022.
You want a small cohort — about 170 entering students — with individualized career development support.
You want to be evaluated for scholarship automatically: every admitted student is considered for merit aid without a separate application.

Consider alternatives if

Cost is the deciding factor: at $47,724 in tuition and $80,602 in annual cost of attendance with no in-state discount, three years runs roughly $241,806 gross, and the school publishes no median award to benchmark against.
You need a loan repayment assistance program or a verified debt figure: neither was retrievable for Cumberland, and no institutional repayment support was identified.
You want a national or Big Law footprint: the school's overall rank (#122 tie) and regional market mean placement is concentrated in Alabama.
You want published salary data before committing: median and percentile salaries were not retrievable, so the debt-to-income calculation cannot currently be made.
You need a part-time or evening J.D. as your primary path, or you are planning a non-standard ("Flextime") study plan, since first-year scholarship eligibility is limited for that category.

The TLS Verdict

Cumberland is the clearest example in this profile series of a school whose ranking and whose reality point in opposite directions, and the right response is to trust the specific evidence over the aggregate number. On the specific evidence, Cumberland is strong: a trial advocacy program at #9 nationally for the seventh consecutive year with a competition record that independently corroborates it (#3 and #2 in the two leading performance rankings), 94.9% employment among employment-eligible Class of 2025 graduates with 96% of those jobs bar-required or JD-preferred, seven judicial clerkships including three federal, a 0% underemployment score, and — most persuasively — an 88.07% first-time pass rate on the July 2025 Alabama bar against a 78.01% statewide rate. Those are outcomes well above what a #122 overall ranking would predict. On the arithmetic, Cumberland is expensive and opaque: $47,724 in tuition, $80,602 in annual cost of attendance, roughly $241,806 gross over three years, no in-state discount, no published median scholarship award, no retrievable average-debt figure, and no identified loan repayment assistance program. The absence of salary data compounds the problem, because at this price the decision turns on the debt-to-income ratio and that ratio cannot currently be computed. The honest summary: Cumberland is a genuinely good choice for an Alabama-committed applicant who wants courtroom training, has negotiated a scholarship materially above whatever the school's unpublished median is, and is comfortable with a regional market; it is a risky choice for an applicant paying near sticker price toward a national strategy or an unknown salary outcome, and no applicant should commit without reading the 509 report's grant percentiles and asking the school directly about conditional award terms and any LRAP.

Frequently Asked Questions

How hard is it to get into Cumberland School of Law?

Moderately accessible: for Fall 2025, Cumberland offered admission to 48.97% of applicants (453 offers from 925 completed applications) and enrolled 170 first-year students, a yield of about 37.5%.

What LSAT score is competitive for Cumberland?

The median LSAT for the Fall 2025 entering class was 156. The 25th and 75th percentiles were not published in the sources reviewed; they appear in the school's Standard 509 Information Report.

What GPA do Cumberland applicants typically have?

The median undergraduate GPA for the Fall 2025 entering class was 3.63. As with the LSAT, the 25th and 75th percentiles were not retrievable and should be read from the 509 report.

Does Cumberland give scholarships?

Yes, and every admitted first-year full-time student is automatically evaluated for merit aid based on cumulative undergraduate GPA and LSAT score; no separate application is required for general merit awards. The school also awards one full-tuition scholarship each year through the Jere F. White Jr. Fellows Program, the only entering award requiring an additional application. The median award and grant percentiles were not retrievable. Flextime students are not eligible for scholarships during their first two semesters.

Does Cumberland award conditional scholarships?

Not confirmed. The school's conditional-scholarship disclosure was not retrievable during research for this profile, and this is a question applicants should put to the admissions office in writing before accepting an award.

What is Cumberland's bar passage rate?

On the July 2025 Alabama bar, 88.07% of Cumberland's first-time takers passed (96 passing, 13 failing) against a statewide first-time rate of 78.01%. Independent tabulations report 90.4% for 2025 graduates across all jurisdictions. The school reports a one-year pass rate of 91% for the Class of 2023 and an ultimate pass rate of 94% for the Class of 2022; the 2024 first-time figure was 78%.

What percentage of Cumberland graduates get jobs?

94.9% of Class of 2025 graduates eligible for employment had secured positions ten months after graduation, and 96% of those employed hold bar-required or JD-preferred positions. Seven graduates obtained judicial clerkships — three federal and four state. Independent tabulations report a 77.7% employment score and a 0% underemployment score.

Does Cumberland offer a loan repayment assistance program?

No LRAP was identified for Cumberland in the sources reviewed, but the school's financial aid pages were not retrievable, so this should be treated as unconfirmed and verified directly with the school rather than assumed.

What is Cumberland School of Law best known for?

Its trial advocacy program — ranked #9 nationally by U.S. News for seven consecutive years and supported by one of the country's strongest competition records — along with an Alabama-focused employment network and a strong recent bar-passage record.

Does Cumberland offer a part-time J.D.?

The school enrolls a full-time first-year J.D. cohort and maintains a separate "Flextime" student category, which is excluded from first-year scholarship eligibility. Whether a formal part-time or evening division exists was not determinable from the sources reviewed and should be confirmed with admissions.

Contact and Key Links

Cumberland School of Law
Samford University
800 Lakeshore Drive
Birmingham, Alabama 35229

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Sources

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