 The student body size declined from 332 total students in 2011 to 96 in 2016, before rebounding slightly to 128 in 2017.Appalachian School of Law was granted full accreditation by the American Bar Association on June 12, 2006, and at the ABA meeting of February 20-22, 2020 the Council of the Section on Legal Accreditation removed the provisional accreditation discussed below, finding it has demonstrated compliance with accreditation standards.The school had been provisionally accredited by the ABA since February 2001, so students completing their course of legal study at this approved law school could take the bar examination in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.