Quinnipiac University School of Law, locate in Quinnipiac University, is the youngest law school in the U.S. state of Connecticut, having received full accreditation from the American Bar Association in 1995 and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. The law school was formerly the University of Bridgeport Law School, part of the University of Bridgeport. The University of Bridgeport went through financial hardships in the early 1990s. In order for the law school to remain open it had to merge with a financially sound university. The law school received bids to be taken over by nearby Sacred Heart University and Quinnipiac. The law school faculty and students voted to merge with Quinnipiac because they felt it a more financially sound University than Sacred Heart. The law school retained the name University of Bridgeport law school until the name was officially changed in the 1990s. Quinnipiac University School of Law is currently ranked in the third tier in the annual U.S. News and World Report rankings.