New England School of Law

Director of admissions

Michelle L’Etoile

Application deadline

03/15

Full-time program application fee

$65

Part-time program application fee

$65

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

N/A

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

3,167

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

1,737

Overall acceptance rate

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

384

Number of full-time program applicants

2,524

Number of full-time program acceptances

1,333

Full-time acceptance rate

52.8%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

260

Number of part-time program applicants

854

Number of part-time program acceptances

455

Part-time acceptance rate

53.3%

Number of first-year part-time students enrolled

124

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

3.02-3.51

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

151-155

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

2.83-3.34

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

149-152

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

MA

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

83.2%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

86.1%

Total graduates

295

Graduates employed at graduation

45.2%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$50,000

Median private sector starting salary

$55,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$65,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

43%

Median public service starting salary

$46,500

Percent employed in academia

2.7%

Percent employed in business and industry

22.8%

Percent employed in government

15.6%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

12.5%

Percent employed in law firms

42.0%

Percent employed in public interest

4.5%

Percent employed in an unknown field

0.0%

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

12.5%

Graduates employed in-state

67%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

1%

Number of states where graduates are employed

21

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

70.1%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

12.1%

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

1.3%

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

0.0%

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

9.8%

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

0.4%

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

0.0%

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

2.2%

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

2.7%

Employment location unknown

0.0%

Career services operations: Career Services provides career counseling, job search resources, on campus recruitment programs, and career workshops. The office maintains a library of directories of legal employers, practice areas, and periodicals. The website features a searchable job-posting database, employer recruitment programs, an alumni networking/mentoring program, and postings of career development programs.

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

60.1%

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

13.1%

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)

9.7%

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)

0.7%