University of Kansas

Director of admissions

Jacqlene Nance

Application deadline

03/15

Full-time program application fee

$55

Part-time program application fee

N/A

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

summer

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

1,101

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

395

Overall acceptance rate

Total number of full- and part-time first-year students enrolled

162

Number of full-time program applicants

1,101

Number of full-time program acceptances

395

Full-time acceptance rate

35.9%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

162

Number of part-time program applicants

N/A

Number of part-time program acceptances

N/A

Part-time acceptance rate

N/A

Number of first-year part-time students enrolled

0

25th-75th percentile GPA scores for all students

25th-75th percentile LSAT scores for all students

25th-75th percentile undergraduate GPA for full-time students

3.15-3.77

25th-75th percentile LSAT scores for full-time students

154-160

25th-75th percentile undergraduate GPA for part-time students

N/A

25th-75th percentile LSAT scores for part-time students

N/A

State where the greatest number of first-time test takers took the bar

KS

School’s bar passage rate for first-time test takers

91.9%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

91.3%

Total graduates

160

Graduates employed at graduation

67.1%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$50,000

Median private sector starting salary

$65,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$90,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

78%

Median public service starting salary

$44,665

Percent employed in academia

3.4%

Percent employed in business and industry

18.2%

Percent employed in government

11.5%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

10.8%

Percent employed in law firms

53.4%

Percent employed in public interest

2.7%

Percent employed in an unknown field

0.0%

Percent employed in a judicial clerkship by an Article III federal judge

2.7%

Graduates employed in-state

42%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

3%

Number of states where graduates are employed

23

New England (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT)

0.0%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

0.7%

East North Central (IL, IN, MI, OH, WI)

3.4%

West North Central (IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD)

74.3%

South Atlantic (DE, DC, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV)

4.7%

East South Central (AL, KY, MS, TN)

0.0%

West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX)

2.0%

Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA)

3.4%

Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, WY)

8.8%

Employment location unknown

0.0%

Career services operations: The Office of Career Services is committed to helping all students, regardless of career aspirations or credentials, to realize their employment goals. Annually over 100 employers interview on campus. The Office also offers counseling sessions, resume and interviewing workshops, a 1L Mentor Program, and a speaker series featuring a diverse group of panelists from all areas of the law.

Bar admission required or anticipated (e.g., attorney and corporate counsel positions, law clerks, judicial clerks)

78.0%

J.D. preferred, law degree enhances position (e.g., corporate contracts administrator, alternative dispute resolution specialist, government regulatory analyst, FBI special agent)

14.0%

Professional/other (jobs that require professional skills or training but for which a J.D. is neither preferred nor particularly applicable; e.g., accountant, teacher, business manager, nurse)

7.0%

Nonprofessional/other (job that does not require any professional skills or training or is taken on a temporary basis and not viewed as part of a career path)

1.0%