Nova Southeastern University

Director of admissions

Beth Hall

Application deadline

04/01

Full-time program application fee

$50

Part-time program application fee

$50

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

N/A

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

2,512

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

1,033

Overall acceptance rate

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

377

Number of full-time program applicants

2,140

Number of full-time program acceptances

936

Full-time acceptance rate

43.7%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

324

Number of part-time program applicants

372

Number of part-time program acceptances

97

Part-time acceptance rate

26.1%

Number of first-year part-time students enrolled

53

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

3.06-3.56

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

147-152

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

2.93-3.39

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

144-151

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

FL

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

75.7%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

77.6%

Total graduates

297

Graduates employed at graduation

N/A

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$50,000

Median private sector starting salary

$60,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$72,500

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

78%

Median public service starting salary

$40,000

Percent employed in academia

3.0%

Percent employed in business and industry

18.0%

Percent employed in government

11.0%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

1.0%

Percent employed in law firms

60.0%

Percent employed in public interest

7.0%

Percent employed in an unknown field

0.0%

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

0.3%

Graduates employed in-state

88%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

1%

Number of states where graduates are employed

16

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

0.4%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

3.4%

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

0.4%

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

0.0%

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

92.2%

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

0.4%

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

0.0%

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

2.0%

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

0.4%

Employment location unknown

0.0%

Career services operations: The Career Development Office is staffed by four professionals and several support staff. The office sponsors on-campus interviewing, resume review, and mock interviewing. It publishes a newsletter, maintains online job listings, and participates in several job fairs. Practicing attorneys participate in numerous lunch and learn programs, discussing their practice areas with interested students.

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

76.0%

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

10.0%

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)

13.0%

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)

2.0%