DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) – On Tuesday, Widener University Commonwealth Law School in Harrisburg and Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre signed a 3+3 agreement in Harrisburg.

This provides Wilkes students an opportunity to earn an undergraduate degree and a law degree in six years instead of seven.

“Which saves them time and money and gets them to their career goal working as a lawyer sooner,” said Widener University Commonwealth Law School Dean, Michael Hussey.

School leaders say this could save a student around $30,000.

This is an opportunity two second year law students say would have benefitted them.

“I think it would have just given me a new opportunity. I obviously ended up here anyway, but it would have given me like earlier access to seeing what like law schools are out there,” said second year law student Kira Meager.

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“When I toured Widener, I realized that the atmosphere was one similar to Wilkes which is what I was interested in so yeah I completely agree that having that earlier access would have been nice to kind of like enter senior year already knowing what I was doing afterward,” said second-year law student Gretchen Fullmer.

The agreement continues Widener University’s focus to have more lawyers in the commonwealth.

In fact, Hussey says 75% of graduates from the class of 2023 stayed in the Commonwealth.

“There is very little in our society that isn’t impacted by the law,” said Wilkes University president, Greg Cant.

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