"… There’s been a 2.9 percent increase of first-year students at ABA-accredited schools between 2017 and 2018 and a 1.2 percent increase in law students overall. A greater percentage increase was in non-JD enrollment, which includes LLMs, masters and certificate programs; there was an 8.2 percent increase in those programs.
The data released by the ABA comes from Standard 509 Information Reports, named after Standard 509, which requires reports from accredited law schools to be collected by the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. Besides class size information, 509 Reports include data about law schools’ LSAT and undergraduate GPA scores, tuition costs and financial aid. The 509 Reports can be found on the section’s required disclosure page, which also lists employment and bar passage outcomes." …