About SIU Simmons Law
SIU prides itself on being a collaborative, tight-knit community that allows you to thrive. Through relationships, experiences, and connections, we open doors so you can navigate a career on your terms.
Carbondale is a place where education, culture, and nature come together. With the Shawnee National Forest as its backdrop and campus lake accross the street, our neck of the woods is unique in many ways. Come and see for yourself!
Unparalleled Value
As the only public law school in the southern Illinois region, SIU Simmons Law is committed to affordability by offering a one-rate tuition for all domestic students. This means all domestic students, regardless of their residency, pay the same tuition rate!
Combined with the affordable cost of living in scenic Southern Illinois, our graduates have a debt load below the national law school average. That means students have more freedom to chart their own career path. Cost and Aid.
Experiential Education
Simmons Law School students have myriad opportunities to gain practical legal experience as part of their degree, from clinic to externships, students learn critical skills and build lasting relationships with attorneys and professors, that help prepare them from practice. Discover more about the Experiential Education that our students take advantage of after their first year.
Commitment to Diversity
Simmons Law School is an anti-racist institution that is committed to principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion, both in the profession of law and society at large. We welcome and actively recruit students, staff, and faculty who want to work and learn in an environment that nurtures and respects diversity in all its forms, including race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, culture, disability, or military status.
Simmons Law School has a policy of non-discrimination that prohibits the use of admission policies or other actions to preclude admission of applicants or retention of students on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, or military status.
Simmons Law School adheres to policies that foster and maintain equality of opportunity for students, faculty, and staff, without discrimination or segregation on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, or military status.
Simmons Law School’s non-discrimination policy extends to all employers that recruit our students and to all of our externship sites, prospective and current. Every employer to whom SIU Simmons Law School furnishes assistance and facilities for interviewing and other placement services shall observe the principles of non-discrimination and equality of opportunity on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, or military status in regard to hiring, promotion, retention, and conditions of employment.