Summer 2026 Quick Guide

Key Contacts & Resources

Summer 2026 Schedule of Classes. The tentative Summer 2026 class schedule is available here.

Initial reading assignments for Summer 2026 – click here (must be logged in to view).

Academic calendar for 2026-27, including the Summer 2026 term.

Notice to rising 2L students. Current first-year students are permitted to take Summer 2026 courses if they wish to do so and if they satisfy any prerequisites indicated in the schedule of classes. You may want to review the “Where Do We Go From Here?” document prior to summer registration.

Add/drop period. The summer add/drop period will continue through Wednesday, June 3, at 10:00 p.m. CT.

Applications to graduate in Summer 2026. If you will be graduating at the end of the summer term, please complete this form no later than Tuesday, May 30.

Course Fee. A course fee of $350, in addition to regular tuition, will be charged to full-time students for regular classroom courses taken during the summer term, including any courses taken through our consortium programs with DePaul, Loyola, and UIC, and including classes taken through other ABA-accredited schools.

Exceptions: (1) The fee does not apply to part-time students for any course; (2) the fee does not apply, for any student, to clinical courses, externships, or Independent Research credits pursued at Chicago-Kent; and (3) the fee does not apply, for any student, to courses taken through Chicago-Kent exchange programs with universities abroad.

If you qualify for financial aid loans, those can be used to cover the cost of the fee; scholarships, however, cannot be used to cover the cost of the fee. Note to part-time students: You may see the course fee on your account if you take a regular classroom course; a credit equal to the fee will be applied to offset the charge at the end of the summer add/drop period.

Credit Hour Limits. With the exceptions noted below, students may take a maximum of 6 credit hours in the summer term; there is no minimum. Students who take a 4-credit clinic or externship course may take a total of 7 credits. Any student taking more than 6 credits should fill out this form so that your maximum credit limit can be adjusted in the registration system.

Consortium Program. Chicago-Kent has a consortium arrangement with certain other area law schools under which students can take designated courses at the other schools. Under the consortium arrangement, students pay tuition to their home school, and grades transfer back to the home school, not just the credits, and are counted in student GPAs. In Summer 2026, we do not have the staff capacity to process inbound or outbound consortium registration requests. Please contact the Provost’s office for more information about staffing levels at Chicago-Kent.

Pass/Fail Elections and Limitations. Pass/fail elections for the summer term must be made online no later than Wednesday, June 3, at 10:00 pm CT. To take a class pass/fail, see this form (link) but do not try to do it through Web for Students. The Registrar’s Office will review your request and inform you if there is any problem with your request.

Although there is no overall limit on pass/fail credits, there are two types of limits to the pass/fail credits you can take:

Pass/fail election: Students may elect up to 6 credits pass/fail during their entire time at Chicago-Kent. This pass/fail election applies to upper-level elective courses that normally are letter-graded; classes that are only offered pass/fail do not count toward this 6-credit limit.

The following classes may not be elected pass/fail: (1) required courses, including Professional Responsibility; (2) seminars, whether or not being taken to fulfill the graduation seminar requirement; (3) courses that have been designated by instructors as ineligible for the pass/fail election; (4) courses that are graded only on a pass/fail basis, such as clinical courses, Moot Court, and Law Review; (5) Financial Services LL.M. courses; (6) Trial Advocacy and Appellate Advocacy courses; and (7) courses taken to fulfill the requirements of any certificate program.

Fall pass/fail registration will open shortly before the start of the fall semester. A student taking a course on a pass/fail basis must earn at least a C to receive a P. If you pass the course but fail to earn at least a C, you will receive a grade of LP.

Clinic limitation: You may take no more than 24 credit hours toward graduation for clinical courses and externships combined. Students in the Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution Program and the Criminal Litigation Program are exempt from this limitation.