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As this blog has highlighted in the past, the finances involved in an LLM abroad can become one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the application and admissions process. Not only can tuition be prohibitively expensive, but applicants from countries such as India also bear the brunt of poor exchange rates. To further compound matters, Indian education loans come with high rates of interest, and typically require a co-signor and collateral.

Which is why financial aid becomes all the more important.

While most law schools offer some form of aid, it is difficult to arrive at accurate predictions as to the quantum of aid that an applicant might expect. And while I don’t think this difficulty will be resolved anytime soon, I do think that building data sets can be of some help.

This is why I am crowdsourcing information on the quantum of aid that law schools are offering their LLM candidates for the upcoming academic year. Please note that this table is based on a very, very small number of applicants, less than three for most of the schools listed below.

Hopefully things will change as more applicants share information.

School	Aid Offered
Penn Carey Law School	Zero
UC Berkeley School of Law	$20,000+
University of Cambridge (LLM)	Zero
Cornell Law School	$20,000+
University of Chicago Law School	TBA
Duke University School of Law	~$40,000
University of Michigan Law School	$30,000

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