University of St Thomas

Director of admissions

Cari L. Haaland

Application deadline

07/01

Full-time program application fee

$50

Part-time program application fee

N/A

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

N/A

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

1,713

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

836

Overall acceptance rate

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

151

Number of full-time program applicants

1,713

Number of full-time program acceptances

836

Full-time acceptance rate

48.8%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

151

Number of part-time program applicants

0

Number of part-time program acceptances

0

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

3.01-3.59

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

MN

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

88.8%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

93.0%

Total graduates

140

Graduates employed at graduation

N/A

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$46,000

Median private sector starting salary

$52,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$80,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

51%

Median public service starting salary

$48,000

Percent employed in academia

2.0%

Percent employed in business and industry

31.0%

Percent employed in government

12.0%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

17.0%

Percent employed in law firms

29.0%

Percent employed in public interest

9.0%

Percent employed in an unknown field

0.0%

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

0.8%

Graduates employed in-state

81%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

1%

Number of states where graduates are employed

15

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

1.0%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

1.0%

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

5.0%

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

84.0%

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

1.0%

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

1.0%

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

0.0%

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

5.0%

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

1.0%

Employment location unknown

0.0%

Career services operations: The Office of Career and Professional Development offers students a well-equipped Resource Room, a searchable career development manual and an Internet Job Center, to help them discern their vocation and find a job as they begin their careers. It produces a marketing brochure for prospective employers describing UST’s enrollment profile, Mentor Externship, academic awards and student activities.

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

75.0%

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

8.0%

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)

12.0%

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)

5.0%