In addition to Columbia's excellent need-based financial aid program for all students, the Law School offers a Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP) that is among the most generous in the country to ensure that law school debt does not prevent Columbia graduates from entering the public interest sector. Columbia provides all graduates who enter qualifying public interest employment within seven years of graduation with interest-free loans that are used to repay a large portion of their law school debt. Loans are gradually forgiven after three years and completely forgiven after five years, as long as the graduate remains in public interest law. Unlike programs at many other schools, LRAP has no salary cap because benefits are determined by the difference between annual loan repayments and expected contribution from income. Recent improvements establish an earnings floor below which no contributions by the graduate are required. More on CLS's LRAP Program
For more detailed information on Columbia's Loan Repayment Assistance Program please click on the above link to go to the Financial Aid section on LRAP.
Click here for Columbia's Special Public Service LRAP Fellowships.
