Cleveland State Highlights

Monte Ahuja College of Business

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College of Education and Human Services

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College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

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College of Sciences and Health Professions

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Fenn College of Engineering

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Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

  • Founded 1897
  • The first law school in Ohio to admit women
  • One of the first law schools in Ohio to admit minorities
  • Accredited by the American Bar Association since 1957
  • Member of the Association of American Law Schools since 1970
  • Forty-seven full-time faculty, including legal writing and clinical professors
  • Four named professorships, including the Leon M. and Gloria Plevin Endowed Professorship, the Charles R. Emrick Jr. – Calfee, Halter & Griswold Endowed Professorship, the James A. Thomas Distinguished Professorship, and the Joseph C. Hostetler –Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law
  • Second highest pass rate among Ohio law schools for first-time takers of the July 2007 Ohio Bar Exam
  • Two student-edited journals: The Cleveland State Law Review and The Journal of Law and Health
  • ABA prize-winning student newspaper: The Gavel
  • Five clinics: Community Health Advocacy Clinic, Employment Law Clinic, Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, Fair Housing Clinic, and Urban Development Law Clinic
  • Full- and part-time degree programs leading to J.D. and LL.M. degrees; joint degree programs leading to J.D./M.B.A., J.D./M.P.A., J.D./M.A.E.S., J.D./M.S.E.S., and J.D./M.U.P.D.D.
  • Concentrations in Business Law, Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Criminal Law, Employment and Labor Law, and International and Comparative Law
  • Externships including state and federal Judicial Externships, U.S. Attorney Externship, Public Interest Externships with the Federal Public Defender, Cuyahoga County Public Defender and Cuyahoga County Prosecutor, among other placements, and student-designed Independent Externships.
  • Summer Institute for Law Students in St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Lecture series including the Cleveland-Marshall Fund Visiting Scholars Program, the Criminal Justice Forum, the Employment and Labor Law Speakers Series, the Forrest B. Weinberg Memorial Lecture Series, and the Baker-Hostetler Visiting Scholar Lectures
  • Pro Bono and Community Service Programs
  • Newly renovated and expanded building, including state-of-the-art Law Library, housing the state’s second largest law collection
  • Fourteen “high-tech” classrooms, including the Joseph W. Bartunek III Moot Court Room
  • Over 20 student organizations, serving the interests of a diverse and engaged student body

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Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs

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